[wplug] LUG Interest Waning?

[Teodorski, Chris]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-
> bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of O'Connor, Michael P.
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: RE: [wplug] LUG Interest Waning?
> 
> Lets put it this way if you are in Pittsburgh and have some work with
> computers, it is only natural that you would end up with some
> affiliation with CMU.  I don't believe it is bias.   

This is just plain wrong. Conclusions like this could lead to inadvertent exclusion, which has already been mentioned in this thread. I have been working in IT in Pittsburgh since 2001.  Outside of WPLUG, I've never had a single affiliation with CMU.



IMHO, CMU and the employees of CMU who participated in WPLUG have been very good to WPLUG, period.  I don't think you can make a case to argue otherwise.  

To others comments, I do agree the original (from my perspective the real long timers probably won't consider this the "original" spot) meeting location was very difficult to locate.  In fact, my first attempt at attendance ended with me giving up because I couldn't find the room.  So I agree with Terry that the location is less that stellar.  I was however quite fond of the room and facility itself.

As for the CMU/Pitt bias, I call Bravo Sierra on that.  If you are too lazy or too stuck up or too unmotivated to haul your carcass a mere mile, odds are if we located the meeting in your bedroom you'd come up with an excuse why that wasn't adequate. 

Here's an interesting tidbit.  Talked to a recent hire to my team.  He's a big Gentoo fanboy.  I asked him why he doesn't come to WPLUG meetings.  He was under the impression that installs and installfests was what WPLUG was all about.  He didn't think we handled topics of interest to "experienced" users.  Based on this and other things said in this thread, I thing WPLUG has an image problem.  

Chris