[ILUG] AGM Annoucement

[Justin Mason]

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Niall Sheridan writes:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50 +0000, Niall Walsh wrote:
> [snippage]
> 
> > The website contains lots of out of date information.
>
> Update it then. From what I hear, the webmaster happily will accept
> contributions.

A good tip -- moving to a wiki helps a *lot* here.  We found that
our stale old SpamAssassin website has become the main source of
live, up to date info now that we wiki-ized it.

(It turns out that vandalism and people throwing up crappy info isn't a
serious problem at all.  See http://taint.org/2004/09/28/191712a.html
for details.)

> > The mailing list and irc are reasonably alive.
> > 
> > The only real world thing the ILUG does is the stand at Linuxworld, I 
> > recommend asking anyone involved in organising this about the stress and 
> > its sources.
> > 
> "Real world"? It's a marketing show. How further detached from reality do you want?
> 
> > The AGM is minimally attended and ILUG struggles to fill the "elected" 
> > positions.
> > 
> It's attended by people who want to go, and who have the time.
> People have lives outside of the group - most have day jobs or other
> commitments.
> Personally, I'd sooner see a handful of people stand for election who
> have the time and are prepared to put the effort into ILUG than a large
> number who simply won't or can't.
> 
> > There does not appear to have been any recent attempts by ILUG to do 
> > anything.
> 
> ILUG is a user's group. It's there for users of linux. What should it be
> doing? Standing on Grafton Street dressed as penguins?
> The committee is not ILUG, the member, feel free to organise what you
> wish, and by all means attempt to seek help from the members. The
> "committee" are members too y'know.

I think this has been hashed out quite a lot -- but bear in mind that the
ILUG mailing list is possible *the* most active list with a community of
predominantly Irish participants.  It's a massive success in itself, and a
fantastic resource.   I think that's demonstrating that ILUG is doing
a great job as is.

- --j.
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