[ale] What did we want?

[Lightner, Jeff]

I'm surprised to hear folks think ALE isn't robust.  The only times I made it to the meeting there seemed to be many people there.  Even the folks that went to the after function were so numerous I couldn't find a place at the table.

For me it's not so much a lack of interest (I go the AUUG meetings each month) as it is the location for the Central meeting.  It doesn't seem that "central" to me being on the NW side.     One of these days I need to try to figure out where exactly the NW meetings are.   The one time I tried to locate that from the campus map I gave up in disgust after driving around for 1/2 hour or more.

It didn't help that the last time I went to Central someone stole my car's hub covers.  :-)

One of the reason I like UGs and lists/forums is because they DO introduce me to things that I'm not currently working on.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:54 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] What did we want?

On 01/30/2014 03:10 PM, H P Ladds wrote:
> I wonder if all the User groups that are tangential to Linux attract
> more support than LUGs themselves. Is the Drupal user more interested
> in a Drupal user group or a LUG? Is the Android user developer
> interested attending a regular Android related event or a LUG?
Seems to me that a user group with a more pointed focus might attract more people, like a dev group, rather than a general group that is interested in many facets.  We are a group of sys admins, developers, network engineers, security experts and plain Linux users.  I might not be interested in attending a meeting talking about bash scripting, but very interested in IPV6 discussion, which would be quite the opposite of someone else.

Just a thought.
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