[ILUG] (no subject)

[Twomey_Mark at emc.com]

"let's go to the pub this wednesday"

Been there, done that, decided that we want to do more...


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Dennehy, BA, BAI [SMTP:Mark.Dennehy at cs.tcd.ie]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 22, 1999 7:32 PM
> To:	ilug at linux.ie
> Subject:	Re: [ILUG] (no subject)
> 
> Ref:[root at linux.ie, Tue, 22/06/99 @ 13:25 +0000]
> > about the ilug splintering into smaller more local lugs...
> > 
> > I think its all very well to have local groups of people to meet
> > up with and chat about linux, socialise etc.
> > But will the focus and energy get diluted? I honestly don't
> > know. It might be a good thing, or it might be a bad thing.
> > 
> > I am a bit worried though that the main linux user group site
> > might be adversly affected. I think that peoples energy
> > should be put into having one definitive and mother of all
> > sites without time and energy being wasted on near replicas.
> Why do the two have to be tied together ?
> What is the obstacle to having one linux.ie website with regional pages
> and one ILUG with regional chapters ?
> I dunno about the rest of you, but if I lived in Cork or Galway, I don't
> think I'd bother to drive over a hundred miles to sit in a pub in dublin
> and talk about linux, I'd rather walk to a more local venue !
> 
> Seems like a lot of work organising stuff for cork.linux.ie and the GLUG
> as some sort of affiliated LUG, as opposed to all the ILUG members who
> happen to be in cork saying "let's go to the pub this wednesday".
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Dennehy, 				Email :
> Mark.Dennehy at cs.tcd.ie
> Research Student,
> Computer Vision and Robotics Research Group,
> Computer Science Dept., Trinity College Dublin		
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