[Staffslug] New ideas etc

In the "General Question" thread, Dave asked: We always had far more people on the mailing list than turning up to meetings. Meetings tended to be social (and *always* included pizza!), although we did have a few where we "did" something, like installing/setting up LTSP [1], or having a LUG member give a talk on Mono. We talked about doing things sometimes, like running Infopoints [2] at local computer fairs, although such ideas tended to die through a combination of apathy and difficulties caused by the fact that the county is large and the membership was geographically diverse. However, one thing we did manage to do was help a local scout group gain their stage 3 computing badge [3]. This may be an interesting thing for the LUG to do, but bear in mind that it is very hard work. Having plenty of people involved would help, since the workload can be distributed (when Cumbria LUG did it, we only had three LUG members, although the scout leaders helped) Russ [1] http://www.ltsp.org/ [2] http://infopoint.jonobacon.org/index.php/Main_Page [3] http://www.cumbria.lug.org.uk/index.php?id=16