[Leaplist] Fwd: Can kids volunteer for install fest

[Kevin Inscoe]

There are a lot of ways of disseminating information. One of the
reasons I find "social networking" so fascinating. RSS and Atom feeds,
Facebook, aggregators like friendfeed.com or feedblendr.com or just
plain old blogs or Twitter. I use 'em all.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:
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>  John Simpson wrote:
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> |> 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 :)
>
>
>  - --
>  Gavin Baker
>  http://www.gavinbaker.com/
>  gavin at gavinbaker.com
>
>  There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and take
>  satisfaction in his labor.
>  ~    Ecclesiastes 2:24
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