<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">While I do not make meetings, it sounds like a good plan.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all!<div><br></div><div>The addition of Meetup has brought more people to the ALE meetings. There is a proposal floating around to merge the ALE and GA400-Linux meetup groups under the ALE name.</div><div><br></div><div>Short story: the founder of the GA400-Linux group passed away and JD is one of the co-organizers.</div><div><br></div><div>Those folks meet weekly all around the the top end perimeter and Smyrna area for a "how do I..." session geared towards new Linux users.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea JD and I are kicking is to link ALE up as a central group with multiple sub-groups (sysadmin, desktops, language specifics connections, etc).</div><div><br></div><div>Ideas? Feedback? </div><div><br></div><div>The GA400 group has 600+ members. ALE meetup is up to about 60. ALE mailing list has 462 (as of now - down from our high end of 1600+ about 8 years ago).</div><div><br></div><div>NOTE: meetup is not free. I put up the start up money ($80? Will have to check for details.) The larger the group, the more the annual cost for meetup services. They have a donation widget I intend to use to help defray the cost for future years. Any extra we can blow on a party.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
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