[vox] The future of LUGOD

[T. Mark]

Wow, hadn't opened my LUGOD mailbox in quite awhile, & this was certainly sad to see.  First of all HUGE thanks for all your work over the years Bill-- what a great contribution!
Seems a damned shame if there's really not enough interest.  How about a desperate marketing blitz, to see if it can be rekindled?  Actually I was thinking I'd mention something I heard on the LinuxVoice podcast (who suffered financially as a magazine, & got merged with Linux-Magazine.com) -- someone heard that there was a rush of traffic searching about putting Linux on Macbooks due to fanboi disenchantment with OSX changes lately..  something on which to base a flyer for the upcoming Installfest, yes?
I'd be happy to run the thing but haven't the time unless it could be a paid part-time job--  I know that's rather unheard-of but that's where I sit, depressingly.  Perhaps someone with crowdfunding chops or VC connections could work some wonders & whip up an org with proper hype, etc.
Hope all are doing as well as can be done these days..

Mark

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15. Nov 2016 07:38 by brian at brie.com:


> You mean is it towel time? I say throw in the towel and have a
> big party to celebrate the end! We worked hard. Time to rest.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:38:03PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>>
>> Right now it's LUGOD club officer election season, and we're
>> accepting nominations for our four elected positions.
>>
>> I'm strongly considering NOT running for any positions this
>> time around, as it's looking very likely that I'll be moving
>> out of the area next summer.
>>
>> I'm concerned, since I take it upon myself to do a lot of
>> work for the club, that I'll leave a vacuum in my place
>> which could adversely affect the club.  We obviously don't
>> want that!
>>
>> Furthermore, even now, I've not had as much time (or in some
>> cases, not had the energy or inclincation) to do some of the
>> things necessary for the club.  I've been terrible at putting
>> meeting minutes up on the website (and have been bad at
>> asking for help), and have been struggling to work on finding
>> guest speakers.  Doing that kind of stuff for a good portion
>> of the past ~16-17 years has admittedly gotten a bit tiresome.
>>
>> The club needs help right now, so I encourage people to please
>> consider running for officer positions.  It'd be revitalizing,
>> I think, to actually hold elections _with voting_ for once.
>>
>> So many past elections have been situations where only one
>> person was nominated for each position (if that!), so we've
>> accepted them after a simple 'call for objections' at the
>> meeting.
>>
>> LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit, with a somewhat active
>> membership, and I think we can thrive if energetic people
>> take part in running the club again.
>>
>> That's my 2c, (and, uh, I guess a kind of warning? :) )
>>
>>
>> With that, I need to hurry up and find a guest speaker/topic
>> for next week's meeting! :^(
>>
>> -- 
>> -bill!
>> Sent from my computer
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