[Leaplist] Fwd: Can kids volunteer for install fest

[Gavin Baker]

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John Simpson wrote:
[...]
|> Absent a user-defined notification system, I think there just ought to
|> be an announcement list (one informative email per event), and an RSS
|> feed with the same content.
|
| the RSS feed is a good idea- it involves a patch to the script within
| mailman that generates the index.html page for each month when a new
| message arrives (i.e. in addition to writing an index.html, it also
| writes an RSS file.)

Or just start a blog.

|> I think these will be a help in getting the
|> word about LEAP events to people who haven't been involved before. And I
|> know there a number of Linux users (plus untold numbers of Li-curious)
|> in the area who've never been involved with a LUG here, so there's lots
|> of growth potential, if we organize useful events and promote them.
|
| did i just hear you volunteer as a publicist for LEAP? if you're
| serious, and if the board decides they WANT to start publicizing the
| group, then this becomes a totally different conversation, and should
| probably be moved to the "leap business" list (which last saw traffic
| when we started talking about the hamcation.)

I don't know whether you heard me volunteer: I didn't say it; but I
would do it. Two catches:

1. I often won't be at the general meetings, since it's a haul for me
(unless it's a topic I'm really interested in). The installfests/board
meetings are less of a haul.

2. My interest in Linux is to spread free software. As long as the group
is doing some activities for the general user, to promote FOSS, I'm
happy to help with outreach. But I know some LUGs just like to cover
technical topics, with little interest in promoting Linux in the
community or helping new users; I'm not much interested in working on
stuff like that.

And: heh, whoops -- guess all this probably should have been on the
"business" list from the beginning. (Mea culpa.)

| just keep in mind that LEAP is entirely a volunteer organization... they
| don't have "employees" who can be "assigned" to specific tasks, the only
| thing the board can do is identify needs, tell the members about them,
| and hope that enough people (themselves included) volunteer to satisfy
| those needs. [...]

Sure: I mean, it's a LUG :)

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