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Another idea is to petition Ryerson to offer more courses in Linux
development. Ryerson already has a course on operating systems,
which is, ipso facto, linux but we could encourage them to offer
continuing education courses to expand this offering.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17-07-24 09:32 AM, David Ing isss---
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One cure (actually, an affordance) is to register the GTALUG on
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a>,
for visibility.
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<div>If I look at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.meetup.com/topics/linux/ca/on/toronto/">https://www.meetup.com/topics/linux/ca/on/toronto/</a>
, I see "Toronto Linux Meetup" saying "over 50 interested".
There's a target audience!</div>
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<div>I had done this in 2009, for the systems sciences community
(in preparation for the ISSS Waterloo meeting in 2010). The
first year at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> was free, and then
they started charging for being on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a>. I didn't want to
continue (as an individual) to pay for the registrations, so
in subsequent years, restarted on Google Sites (at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wiki.st-on.org/">http://wiki.st-on.org/</a>
), with links to register on Eventbrite (which doesn't charge
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<div>I notice that IBM does have notifications on <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a>
, with a pointer to register elsewhere. As an example, see <a
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href="https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-IBM-Tech-Talks-Meetup/">https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-IBM-Tech-Talks-Meetup/</a>
, where the April 20 event says "In addition to RSVPing on
Meetup here, please also register at the Eventbrite link".</div>
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<div>As a new attendee to GTALUG events, I did a little extra
searching to find the group. Right now, searching Google on
"Linux Toronto Meetup" has GTALUG as the fifth hit on my list.
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<div>In the interest of longevity, it's great that GTALUG is on
its own domain. In the interest of publicity, there's a large
group of people who think <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> is the only place
that advertises meetups.</div>
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<div>P.S. I have also sent notifications to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:events@nowtoronto.com">events@nowtoronto.com</a>
(see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://nowtoronto.com/contact">https://nowtoronto.com/contact
</a>), which is free. This has picked up people who don't
plan more than a day ahead.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 9:21 PM,
William Park via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a
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target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There was
no formal discussion with the GTALUG board. I just got
tired<br>
of talking about it and decided to show initiative. :-)<br>
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GTALUG has long ceased to be "users group" and has
degenerated to social<br>
get-together. Symptoms are<br>
- It has stopped growing.<br>
- No new idea or people are coming in.<br>
- It's not doing anything, because the current people
are already<br>
expert in what they are doing, so no need to do
anything.<br>
- It's falling behind the time. There are people who
knows Linux<br>
and never heard about GTALUG. (I see this at work)<br>
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So, what's the cure? I think that structured tutorials is
the best way<br>
to hold on to people. "Linux Command-Line" is not the only
topics.<br>
There are many others, even from this mailing list alone.<br>
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William<br>
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:40:47PM -0400, Gary via talk
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> I will attend but I think it would be great if
gtalug could get some<br>
> visibility on this for the public at large. How
might this be done.<br>
> /gary<br>
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> On 17-07-22 11:17 PM, William Park via talk wrote:<br>
> > Subject of "tutorial" comes up every year at
Linux BBQ. This year, at<br>
> > Hacklab, was no different. OK, I'll bite first.<br>
> ><br>
> > I will give a series of tutorials on "Linux
Command-Line", starting with<br>
> > - Shell (bash)<br>
> > - Vi editor (vim)<br>
> > It will be workshop style. So, you can bring
laptop (Windows and<br>
> > Chromebook), try out examples, and ask
questions.<br>
> ><br>
> > How many are interested?<br>
> > We'll work out the logistics later.<br>
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