Hello, list. I am working with a few others to coordinate a BSD User Group near the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, hopefully including northeast Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. Although I won''t be relocating to the area for approximately a month or so, I was hoping to get information, or a push in the right direction, to what some BUGs have done to attract attention, gain members, etc. I have already searched for some LUGs in the area mentioned above, and unfortunately have only found one, which was rather discouraging. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Glen Barber
"Glen Barber" wrote:> Hello, list. > > I am working with a few others to coordinate a BSD User Group near the > Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, hopefully including northeast Maryland, > Delaware, and New Jersey. Although I won''t be relocating to the area for > approximately a month or so, I was hoping to get information, or a push in > the right direction, to what some BUGs have done to attract attention, gain > members, etc. > > I have already searched for some LUGs in the area mentioned above, and > unfortunately have only found one, which was rather discouraging. Any > information would be greatly appreciated.I & others created one some years back. Still running: http://www.berklix.org/bim/ Like another club too, if you meet once a month, after a while it gets less interesting & less come, then you do a presentation of some tech & more come for a while, etc. That dynamic''s probably similar to a Linux, an MS or even an Electronic engineers club. Here we vary the location each time, so its not so boring, ( a previous BSD group in this city died long ago after always meeting at the same place) Some disliked varying etc & formed a splinter group. We still vote where we meet. In Berkeley Calif. they dont vote, but have a simple rule of whoever announces first & assertively. Some clubs in USA cover several towns, so they use a different town each time. One in UK uses same pub every month. Quiet bright venues suit us: Listening to a soft spoken tech. 3 seats along who is maybe speaking or listening in a foreign language, we don''t appreciate music & candle dark places - we need to read the sketch on back of an envelope. Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 text are spam.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:07:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:> I am working with a few others to coordinate a BSD User Group near the > Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, hopefully including northeast Maryland, > Delaware, and New Jersey. Although I won''t be relocating to the area for > approximately a month or so, I was hoping to get information, or a push in > the right direction, to what some BUGs have done to attract attention, gain > members, etc. > > I have already searched for some LUGs in the area mentioned above, and > unfortunately have only found one, which was rather discouraging. Any > information would be greatly appreciated.Good for you! You''ve found a LUG. See if you can find local groups for SAGE or LOPSA, find the local Universities, community colleges, and tech schools, too. Distribute announcements to mailing lists for the LUG and any tech groups in the schools, etc. Just think of anywhere there might be interest in BSD and get the word out. For our group, I''ve found attendance ties closely with the presentation. If there''s a good presentation then people come. Write up a good description and get it out on mailing lists and on your web site as soon as you can. Some of the people doing BSD User Groups have gotten together at http://metabug.org/ so feel free to join us. We hang out online on freenode in #metabug. Feel free to drop in and ask questions. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
Darrin Chandler wrote:> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:07:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: >> I am working with a few others to coordinate a BSD User Group near the >> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, hopefully including northeast Maryland, >> Delaware, and New Jersey. Although I won''t be relocating to the area for >> approximately a month or so, I was hoping to get information, or a push in >> the right direction, to what some BUGs have done to attract attention, gain >> members, etc. >> >> I have already searched for some LUGs in the area mentioned above, and >> unfortunately have only found one, which was rather discouraging. Any >> information would be greatly appreciated. > > Good for you! > > You''ve found a LUG. See if you can find local groups for SAGE or LOPSA, > find the local Universities, community colleges, and tech schools, too. > Distribute announcements to mailing lists for the LUG and any tech > groups in the schools, etc. Just think of anywhere there might be > interest in BSD and get the word out. > > For our group, I''ve found attendance ties closely with the presentation. > If there''s a good presentation then people come. Write up a good > description and get it out on mailing lists and on your web site as soon > as you can. > > Some of the people doing BSD User Groups have gotten together at > http://metabug.org/ so feel free to join us. We hang out online on > freenode in #metabug. Feel free to drop in and ask questions. >I was going to point out MetaBug. . . particularly since they seem pretty close in distance from you. . . It''s Jason Dixon and crew in the capitol region. (jd''s cc''d). We are up the line in NYC (nycbug.org) and are focused on NYCBSDCon (.org) for October. I''d also recommend starting up a mailing list, getting the word out to the various BSD lists related to BUGs in a broad way, and then seeing what you have. We are more than willing to host the list if you hit me offline. George
On May 21, 2008, at 9:17 AM, George Rosamond wrote:> Darrin Chandler wrote: >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:07:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: >>> I am working with a few others to coordinate a BSD User Group near >>> the >>> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, hopefully including northeast >>> Maryland, >>> Delaware, and New Jersey. Although I won''t be relocating to the >>> area for >>> approximately a month or so, I was hoping to get information, or a >>> push in >>> the right direction, to what some BUGs have done to attract >>> attention, gain >>> members, etc. >>> >>> I have already searched for some LUGs in the area mentioned above, >>> and >>> unfortunately have only found one, which was rather discouraging. >>> Any >>> information would be greatly appreciated. >> Good for you! >> You''ve found a LUG. See if you can find local groups for SAGE or >> LOPSA, >> find the local Universities, community colleges, and tech schools, >> too. >> Distribute announcements to mailing lists for the LUG and any tech >> groups in the schools, etc. Just think of anywhere there might be >> interest in BSD and get the word out. >> For our group, I''ve found attendance ties closely with the >> presentation. >> If there''s a good presentation then people come. Write up a good >> description and get it out on mailing lists and on your web site as >> soon >> as you can. >> Some of the people doing BSD User Groups have gotten together at >> http://metabug.org/ so feel free to join us. We hang out online on >> freenode in #metabug. Feel free to drop in and ask questions. > > I was going to point out MetaBug. . . particularly since they seem > pretty close in distance from you. . . > > It''s Jason Dixon and crew in the capitol region. (jd''s cc''d). > > We are up the line in NYC (nycbug.org) and are focused on NYCBSDCon > (.org) for October. > > I''d also recommend starting up a mailing list, getting the word out > to the various BSD lists related to BUGs in a broad way, and then > seeing what you have. We are more than willing to host the list if > you hit me offline.To clarify, "MetaBUG is everywhere". The MetaBUG is a group of BUGs worldwide collaborating for events, information, etc. In the Maryland area, we have the Capital Area BSD Users Group (http://capbug.org/). We meet in Columbia, MD, which may be too far of a trek for you. Thanks, --- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
Wow. I wasn''t expecting this many replies this quickly.> I was going to point out MetaBug. . . particularly since they seem pretty > close in distance from you. . .<snip>> > To clarify, "MetaBUG is everywhere". The MetaBUG is a group of BUGs > worldwide collaborating for events, information, etc. In the Maryland area, > we have the Capital Area BSD Users Group (http://capbug.org/). We meet in > Columbia, MD, which may be too far of a trek for you. >I have actually come across both MetaBUG and CapBUG, shortly after sending my original email.> >> I''d also recommend starting up a mailing list, getting the word out to the >> various BSD lists related to BUGs in a broad way, and then seeing what you >> have. We are more than willing to host the list if you hit me offline. > >I''ve got a list server running on my site, so a ML won''t be a problem. However, won''t some people see broadcasting a BUG via ML as spamming? (I don''t want to get banned from any lists.) Regards, -- Glen Barber
Hey, congrats. I started a bug in Buenos Aires few months ago, same scenario. We started making a mail-list in university as 0 mile, then we were expanding outside of it, but we keep using university as meet point. We meet once per month and run the list, we starting to join freesoftware events. We try to grow slowly, but solid. MetaBUG helped us a lot, we posting meetings there and you can ask for help in the chat :-) good luck with the BUG! Damian :-) On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote:> Wow. I wasn''t expecting this many replies this quickly. > > > >> I was going to point out MetaBug. . . particularly since they seem pretty >> close in distance from you. . . > > <snip> > >> >> To clarify, "MetaBUG is everywhere". The MetaBUG is a group of BUGs >> worldwide collaborating for events, information, etc. In the Maryland area, >> we have the Capital Area BSD Users Group (http://capbug.org/). We meet in >> Columbia, MD, which may be too far of a trek for you. >> > > I have actually come across both MetaBUG and CapBUG, shortly after sending > my original email. > > >> >>> I''d also recommend starting up a mailing list, getting the word out to the >>> various BSD lists related to BUGs in a broad way, and then seeing what you >>> have. We are more than willing to host the list if you hit me offline. >> >> > I''ve got a list server running on my site, so a ML won''t be a problem. > However, won''t some people see broadcasting a BUG via ML as spamming? (I > don''t want to get banned from any lists.) > > Regards, > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-user-groups > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-user-groups-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Sd?vtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
> > > We started making a mail-list in university as 0 mileI was hoping to do something similar, as I will be transferring to a university in the Philadelphia area this coming semester.> > MetaBUG helped us a lot, we posting meetings there and you can ask for > help in the chat :-) > good luck with the BUG! >Thanks for the advice! (PS. Sorry, Sd?vtaker -- meant to CC list on last email.) Cheers, -- Glen Barber