Hi all,<br><br>The consensus is:<br><br>(1) People should contribute more posts on <a href="http://lugm.org">lugm.org</a>. One interesting avenue to explore is to install <a href="http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/">http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/</a> on <a href="http://lugm.org">lugm.org</a> which would pull in posts from our existing blogs and automatically publish them on <a href="http://lugm.org">lugm.org</a>.<br>
<br> Jochen's feed is <a href="http://jochen.kirstaetter.name/blog/linux.feed?type=rss">http://jochen.kirstaetter.name/blog/linux.feed?type=rss</a><br> Mine is <a href="http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/category/lugm/feed/">http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/category/lugm/feed/</a><br>
<br>Ajay, can you please install FeedWordPress and set it up in such a way that my posts appear under username 'avinash' and Jochen's under his own? I have not published anything tagged lugm up to now but I'll do that as soon as FeedWordPress is installed (I've already written the article.)<br>
<br>(2) Revive the forum. It's true newbies need a "place" to ask questions. Why not use our Facebook presence more? After all, all newbies are on Facebook... I setup a Facebook group in November 2007 and it's found at<br>
<br> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382614099">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2382614099</a><br><br>I propose that we invite more people to that group (especially newbies) and lurk there to help them. What do you think?<br>
<br>As for Ronny's comment, here is what I think:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ronny R. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:redoverlord@gmail.com">redoverlord@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">as time goes, LUGS as ajay said are no more same.<br>but now, for most of us in the LUGs, we are professionals with less time to do the main goal of the LUGs: advocate for linux (and open source)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>True. All of us 40'ers are busy juggling with many things at the same time.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
AND THAT THE PROBLEM OF MAURITIUS.<br>we dont attract people because all the jobs are winblow$ based-<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't think so. We don't attract people because we are not attractive enough. We should be more visible and be more proactive.<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
as for now, what i see, is that most of us in the linux world in mauritus, well we are all self learners and dont really need teaching cos dont forget, we all learnt linux by ourselfs with a little/big help from the veterans(not in age though)<br>
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So meetings wont be that interresting for us. (even though one regarding capturing films from myt was quite interresting - demo given from a guy who was using tin cans as wifi antennas :) )<br>UNLESS we do manage to get a group of convinced newbies.<br>
But how?<br></blockquote><div><br>Via Facebook. That's the only thing which is nice with Facebook if you think of it: there are a lot of newbies there :-)<br><br>Avinash<br></div></div><br>-- <br><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" size="2"><font size="4"><b>Avinash Meetoo</b></font><b><br>
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