[NTLUG:Discuss] Study Group...

[Steve Baker]

Stephen Klein wrote:
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:
> >
> > Seems like NTLUG is large enough that it would be worth seriously
> > considering creating some local chapters to meet between the main
> > NTLUG monthly events.
> >
> > However, rather than doing it haphazardly, perhaps it would be
> > a good idea to try to figure out where the clusters of interested
> > people are.
> >
> > (BTW:  I live in Cedar Hill - and I'd be interested in some
> > kind of South Arlington/South Grand Prairie/Cedar Hill group
> > meeting perhaps monthly in anti-phase with the main meetings.)

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> I also live in Cedar Hill, so a small local group based somewhere around
> here would be great for me.
> 
> (Gee, look at me, only a few meetings attended so far and I'm already
> wantin to change things. <GRIN>)

Ditto :-)

I don't think of it as changing NTLUG so much as adding an entirely new,
parallel layer without disturbing all the good things that are already
there.  Big organizations have the 'pull' to do big things (like getting
the top man at Loki to come and talk to us).  Small organizations are
arguably better at self-help and being lighter on their feet.

I have been wondering whether things like the Linux Demo Days fiasco
would have been easier to handle at a more local level.  A local group
with only a dozen or so active members could have met in someone's home
for an improptu get together to organize a very local event.  You just
can't do that with 1700 members - so all the work falls on the shoulders
of a single group of club officers who rapidly get snowed under.

Less is more?

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