[wlug_org] Re: [nzlug-discuss] Wgtn discussion result(s)

[Tony Wills]

I think Brent & Ewen have summed up the meeting well.

At 08:54 21/07/2005, Brent wrote:
>...
>NZLUG is primarily a mailing list based community of individuals with a common
>interest in Linux, as are most LUG's.
...
>  NZLUG ... effectively just
>another LUG it is not any sort of umbrella or support organisation for 
>regional
>LUG's, in fact it could be considered competition. (Which is good for
>individuals, but too many LUG's leads to what we felt would be undesirable
>fragmentation). Getting a serious buy in from regional LUG's to jump in and
>support NZLUG as "the national Linux organisation" therefore seemed 
>unlikely to
>us.

My thoughts on NZLUG's wish for NZLUG mailing list to be adopted as a truly 
national linux mailing list:
1) For regions where there is already an active local mailing list it is 
unlikely that many people are going to migrate from a community of people 
they know to NZLUG - if they can't get the info they want from the local 
list there are thousands of other lists and websites to go to, what is the 
attraction of NZLUG?  So from a pragmatic point of view NZLUG is only 
slowly going to attract subscribers from regions with strong local support.
2) Equally those currently on NZLUG have little reason to move to a 
regional group list (eg AuckLUG)

therefore the subscriber catchment of NZLUG mailing list is going to remain 
much as it is.


>Having just solved all our problems, we cast around for something else we 
>could
>apply our collective genius to. Mark said discussions about a logo were
>ongoing, and we came up with the idea of something like a coat of arms (NOT a
>formally registered heraldic coat of arms) combining Tux & a kiwi, two
>flightless birds, which we thought could be a neat way to combine the 
>universal
>symbols for Linux & NZ.

Tux and a Kiwi, why didn't I think of that ?   Mark endearingly described 
some fools efforts at a wiki logo as "a couple of balls with sticks", Ewen 
looked at me and I mumbled something about I thought the idea was to come 
up with logo concepts rather than perfect works of art ;-)

Tony.
http://list.afraid.org/wiki-tux-transparent1.png
http://list.afraid.org/wiki-tux-transparent2.png