On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 4:03:16 PM AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote:
A bigger issue I see concerning LUV is that the November Special General Meeting was adjourned due to lack of quorum. I couldn't go myself because I was sick.
It seems to me in recent years that people are losing interest in LUV - for various reasons. Can anything be done to rectify this?
I know that one of the arguments (that I didn't believe) previously mentioned against becoming a subcommittee was along the lines of "the LA committee of the future may not be interested in doing what is best for LUV" and that "we may lose the culture of LUV that makes it attractive" - but in actual fact that it seems to me that this is already happening right now. When people don't show up to important meetings to have their say. When it is hard to get nominated committee members (let alone electing committee members).
I agree that we have problems in attendance. The beginners' SIG is getting some interest and new people who don't attend the main meetings. If smaller less formal meetings is what interests people then there's nothing stopping us from arranging another. I recall that someone ran a cafe Linux meetup associated with LUV, we could do that again. Some people say that with more Youtube videos about Linux than they have time to watch there isn't a great incentive to attend LUV meetings. It's possible for us to change the focus of the club if there are enough members who have that opinion. I think that one significant benefit in merging with LA is that we could concentrate on these things without distraction. Also we could hopefully get more committee members who aren't concerned with issues of paperwork and just want to help run fun meetings to teach people about Linux. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/