<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.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><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>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div>
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