OT; wood group and LUGnut

[David J Patrick]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 21:03, Bill Mudry wrote:
> aAt 08:27 PM 11/6/04 -0500, you wrote:

> >submission in an upcoming catalog !
> >http://www.leevalley.com/home/main.asp
> 
> A good start. Often local newspapers will accept or even author community
> interest stories and provide exposure -- for *free*. Hmmm .... right in 
> line with
> the pricing of Open Linux ;-). What about articles or ads in HUB (that replaced
> Toronto Computes)?

You do realize that the leevalley suggestion was to promote your Wonders
of Wood club, right ?

Promoting LUGs is a challenge. There's NO advertizing budget, and never
will be. The general public, and even most of the computer crazed
public, couldn't give a crap. The venues tend to be obscure and the
agendas last minute and of narrow focus. The general media still thinks
linux is a kind of stinky cheese from Finland and the computer trade
rags can't find the story, 'cause, most of the time, there ain't one. 

Want to promote LUGs ? 
One of us should  contact LUG organizers regularly, adopt a psudonym
(King P. Enguin, M. Peror, Rock Hopper, Adelie Pen Guin, Jen Too, Little
Blue ?), and write a monthly column called LUGnut. If you can get it
published, then after a few months, perhaps healthy competitive spirit
would arise, between LUGs, and they would put together more newsworthy
meetings and activities, thus perpetuating the promotion. Till then
there's not much to say, and nobody much to say it. Folks just gravitate
to the LUGs 'cause their friends get tired of all the "linux this" and
"linux that".
djp



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