[juneau-lug] Re: Quiet list survey

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:23:44 -0800

Hi, James,

1) Social meetings are good.  So are presentations.  I'd be happy to 
introduce either the R programming language (cran.r-project.org) or the 
Maxima computer algebra project (maxima.sourceforge.net), at the next 
meeting I can make.  Either intro could probably run 15 to 30 minutes.

Juan Rivero might be interested in either.  Are you reading, Juan? 
We've missed you at the meetings.

On the subject of ``meetings I can make'', Wednesday evenings and 
Sundays are right out.  Most other week evenings and Saturdays are ok.

2) I often ask (os-related) questions here, and sometimes on one of the 
Debian lists.

2a) I answer technical questions on the R-help mailing list sometimes, 
and on the spss users list.

3) Local communication; it's not quite the same as a long distance list.

4-6a) No comment for now.

Nels

James Zuelow wrote:
> This list has been pretty quiet lately, so I thought I'd see if anyone is
> awake with a quick survey.
> 
> 1) The last few meetings have been "social" meetings, with little or
> nothing in the way of demos, howtos, etc.  The meeting attendance has also
> been way down, even for summertime.  Would you like to see more in the way
> of demos & howtos at the meetings?
> 
> 2) The vast majority of people subscribed to this list are lurking.
> There's not a lot in the way of message traffic.  I know from personal
> experience that I will normally ask technical questions on the AKLUG list
> because I'm not likely to get a response on this list.  However I *do* try
> to answer any question on the Juneau-LUG list if I have a reasonable
> amount of knowledge about the subject.  Where do you ask your questions?
> 
> 2a) How often do you answer technical questions, and where?
> 
> 3) What do you see the primary purpose of this list to be?
> 
> 4) The web site has not changed much over time, with the exception of
> Tony's http://sysadmin.juneau-lug.org pages.  From the access logs, I see
> that about half of the page views are from ACS/GCI IP ranges in Alaska.
> The other half are from Google hits on the script pages and the IBM 6015
> page.  (I can't see Tony's logs.)  Is there content on the web page you
> would like to see?
> 
> 4a) Would you like to create & post your OWN content?  Either the way Tony
> did with his own server, or by sending me copy to post?
> 
> 5)  What do you think the primary purpose of the web site should be?
> 
> 6) Are there any changes to the LUG itself (organization, etc) that you
> think would make the LUG more interesting for you?
> 
> 6a) One of the biggest challenges I've faced is getting other people to
> take an active interest in maintaining/running the LUG.  I've failed
> miserably, so the LUG seems to ebb & flow according to the amount of free
> time I have.  IMHO this is not a good thing.  Is there a solution?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
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