<div>Hi Joe and all,</div>
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<div>I am still at ITT Tech and can make space/resources available. Although I couldn't make the meeting(s) there, we apparently also have Trocaire available (thanks to whoever set that up). Our need seems to be less about space available and more about commitment--people(volunteers!) to keep things moving month to month. If we have events and subjects planned further in advance, we will probably have better turnout and more involvement. For the near future, I am willing to help with meetings (with the incentive that ITT "encourages" its instructors to do this kind of thing for 'professional development' and 'community involvement' !). However, I won't (can't, don't have that much free time) do it by myself.</div>
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<div>But first a request for some background. Mark (Bob?) and any other of the original or past organizers/leaders, can you give us some history, specifically whether NFLUG has any organizing documents (charter? founding statement?), whether there were ever formal officers, elections, etc? Or did you just do what you could in your spare time? Having several (committed/Elected!) people share the load is better than one or two, and having ongoing recognition for those currently carrying the load can help until the next "election" when maybe some others volunteer to take the lead for a while...</div>
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<div>Maybe some disagree about the need for structure - comments?</div>
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<div>Thanks, Tom<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us" target="_blank">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I haven't been to an nflug meeting in a long time.<br><br>Are there regular meetings now or just once in a while when someone has<br>
the gumption to organize one?<br><br>Do we have a meeting location that is generally available - like that<br>great space we had at ITT?<br><br>Most of the interest I have seen is for relatively advanced topics.<br><br>Are there any other end-user types (like me) around who would appreciate<br>
things like presentations on desktop applications or some meeting time<br>devoted to ironing out small problems in people's systems - especially<br>if they are notebook systems that are easy to bring in and set up?<br>
There used to be install fests, but I guess the newer distros are<br>generally so good at figuring things out for themselves that the fests<br>aren't needed any more.<br><br>I know that sometimes I have problems that I can't seem to get resolved<br>
on the list or find in Google that I'm pretty sure someone more<br>technical than I am could resolve in a couple of minutes if they had the<br>system in front of them and could see what was happening.<br><br>Joe<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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