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[kabel]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 15:43:04 terry mcintyre wrote:
> Google is one of my favorite verbs, even if Google, Inc abhors that usage,
> but just for grins, I tried a few other search engines.
>
> Tried "Pittsburgh Linux" on yahoo.com, and WPLUG was not on the top of the
> list, sadly. The same query delivers the goods on google.com.
>
> On ask.com, "pittsburgh linux" is not sufficiently constrained, but
> "pittsburgh linux users group" is.
>
> New potential customers for WPLUG may not know that "linux users group" is
> a common usage; many people aren't very savvy about how to narrow down
> their search terms.

(not specifically in reply to quoted message)

Bickering about CMU/non-CMU/Pitt/whatever-else (and trying to ALWAYS have the
last word) isn't exactly the best thing for the group's image and is more
than a little counterproductive.

Honestly, though, why not have meetings or events at alternate locations?
Maybe one Saturday, those of us in the North Hills could host an event, and a
few weeks later, the city folks could do something, or people in the South
Hills.  Just because it's one group doesn't mean it has to be one site.  If
not everyone can make it, so what?  It gives people a chance to be more
involved..

Flexible... portable.. hmm...