[clug] Non-Job - CLUG monthly meeting organiser person required

[Steve Walsh]

Robert Brockway wrote:
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> Hi all. This seems like quite a lot for one volunteer position.
It all really depends on the person.

Paul took over from me when I got moved from Canberra to Melbourne for 
work purposes (at an ungodly amount of short notice), and before I 
departed was I coordinating both CLUG and PSIG. Being a sysadmin 
primarily, and not a coder, I had more trouble finding talks for PSIG 
than I did for CLUG (at one point, with very little effort, I had 
somehow managed to plan 6 meetings ahead on the CLUG talk schedule, but 
was grasping at straws for the PSIG meeting speakers with quite a lot of 
effort expended), but was varying the talks ( ie - Chris Myers from 
Grangenet gave a talk on ipv6 as well as what the grangenet project was 
about. Other times, Tridge was happy to step in at short notice and give 
some talks about Samba and swat).

Andrew Pollock, who coordinated CLUG and PSIG before me had some systems 
for getting people, but again, I can remember times he was emailing 
around the day of the meeting looking for speakers, and other times 
meetings were organised months out in advance.

I'm certainly not saying I'm an organisational superman, but it really 
comes down the the people involved and the time they have available to 
do the stuff, as well their contacts within the community, and the time 
they can commit to it. I don't think splitting the talk organizer and MC 
positions is such a good idea, nor do I think that having the talk 
organiser as someone who quite specifically does not attend meetings is 
such a good idea. We did have some luck with guest speakers being 
introduced by the person who invited them to speak, and people can 
always feel free to ask to introduce someone, but again, YMMV.

Oh, and Paul: No Backsies when I return to Canberra :)

Just my 2cents worth, and my one email for this thread as per "bob's law" :)

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Steve Walsh
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Vice President / SysAdmin Team member- Linux Australia
Networks and Technology - Linux.conf.au 2008
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