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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!<br />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?<br />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.<br />Hope all are doing as well as can be done these days..<br /><br />Mark<br /><br />--<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/linuxusergrou" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/linuxusergrou</a><br /><br /><br /><br />15. Nov 2016 07:38 by <a href="mailto:brian@brie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">brian@brie.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">You mean is it towel time? I say throw in the towel and have a<br />big party to celebrate the end! We worked hard. Time to rest.<br /><br /><br /><br />On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:38:03PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:<blockquote><br />Right now it's LUGOD club officer election season, and we're<br />accepting nominations for our four elected positions.<br /><br />I'm strongly considering NOT running for any positions this<br />time around, as it's looking very likely that I'll be moving<br />out of the area next summer.<br /><br />I'm concerned, since I take it upon myself to do a lot of<br />work for the club, that I'll leave a vacuum in my place<br />which could adversely affect the club. We obviously don't<br />want that!<br /><br />Furthermore, even now, I've not had as much time (or in some<br />cases, not had the energy or inclincation) to do some of the<br />things necessary for the club. I've been terrible at putting<br />meeting minutes up on the website (and have been bad at<br />asking for help), and have been struggling to work on finding<br />guest speakers. Doing that kind of stuff for a good portion<br />of the past ~16-17 years has admittedly gotten a bit tiresome.<br /><br />The club needs help right now, so I encourage people to please<br />consider running for officer positions. It'd be revitalizing,<br />I think, to actually hold elections _with voting_ for once.<br /><br />So many past elections have been situations where only one<br />person was nominated for each position (if that!), so we've<br />accepted them after a simple 'call for objections' at the<br />meeting.<br /><br />LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit, with a somewhat active<br />membership, and I think we can thrive if energetic people<br />take part in running the club again.<br /><br />That's my 2c, (and, uh, I guess a kind of warning? :) )<br /><br /><br />With that, I need to hurry up and find a guest speaker/topic<br />for next week's meeting! :^(<br /><br />-- <br />-bill!<br />Sent from my computer<br />_______________________________________________<br />vox mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:vox@lists.lugod.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">vox@lists.lugod.org</a><br /><a href="http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox</a></blockquote><br />-- <br />Brian Lavender<br /><a href="http://www.brie.com/brian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.brie.com/brian</a><br /><br />"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to<br />make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other<br />way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."<br /><br />Professor C. A. R. Hoare<br />The 1980 Turing award lecture<br />_______________________________________________<br />vox mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:vox@lists.lugod.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">vox@lists.lugod.org</a><br /><a href="http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox</a></blockquote> </body>
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