[aclug-L] Re: ACLUG

[Michael Moore <mrmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

bbales wrote:

>Jesse,
>Somehow this got all blown out of proportion.  Please don't leave the list.   
>We value your input.
>
>Attendance was down, the website was a shambles, the meetings were 
>intermittent, the president quit and we were trying to find a way to get more 
>attendance and better presentations. Newcomers weren't being acknowledged. 
>And we needed to spread things around so no-one was doing all the work.
>
>We went around the group and everyone introduced himself.  We looked at the 
>questionaires that had been returned and tallied the topics that had been 
>requested on them.  
>
>We then began discussing how to better determine what topic to present 
>without doing it at a meeting and somehow decided that if we did it online it 
>would be best to not bother the whole group (some 300 people I am told) with 
>a discussion of topics, when most could not attend and had no interest in.  
>The announcement would be still posted on the regular list.
>
>Easy solution.  Make another list for attendees only.  New attendees would 
>introduce themselves and put themselves on the list.  Discussion on this list 
>could find topics of interest to those who would be most likely to attend, 
>which is probably those who had attended a recent meeting.
>
>I think some of us got the wrong idea about the "list."  Or maybe I did.  I 
>thought we were putting control of the meetings in the hands of those who 
>attend the meetings, which seems logical.  The ACLUG mailing list should not 
>be affected in any way.  Someone else had a different idea and made an almost 
>rude response on the ACLUG list.  'Nuff said.
>
>I started this to send to glandix.  I'll send it to the list.  I'm about a 
>day behind in reading so maybe someone else has already set things straight 
>better than I can.
>
>bruce
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Jesse,

There's been a lot of traffic on the list lately, so I might have missed 
the comments about you leaving the list or maybe those comments were 
just made to Bruce.

Please, don't leave the list your input and suggestions have been very 
valuable to the group.  I know your time is probably limited and it is 
difficult to attend meetings and I believe it is in nobody's interest to 
leave anybody out of the loop who wishes to be there.

For example: somebody suggested a local list that could be subscribed to 
that was of interest to them.  That is if you lived in the Ukraine you 
probably wouldn't want to subscribe to the local list and get 100+ 
emails a week that talked about local ACLUG suggestions, meetings, 
events, etc. that had nothing to do with Linux.  On the other hand 
someone in Hesston or Kansas City might be interested in them.

I don't know what you and Bruce talked about.  But, please don't leave 
the list.  Your input is valued here and we can learn from you; as well, 
you can probably learn from others on the list.

Hey, Bruce.  I believe you were the person sitting right in front of me 
at Wednesday's meeting.  I was sitting right behind you next to Clint.


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