RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION]BeerlessGeeks[was(nowmembersmeetingquestion)on members list]

[Jennifer Dozar <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> The real problem is not lack of women, it's the complete nonexistence of
> meetings.  Am I wrong?  When are you having meetings?  The sortware demo
> idea is great, but who is offering to demo?  If the MLUG President isn't
> going to try to move forward with a meeting/demo/etc., maybe someone else
> should be voted into office.

There have been lack of meetings really for several years now.  WHen i was
in columbia there weren't very many. If i were BACK in columbia, I think
i'd actually offer to take over.  I am tempted to do that with the LUG
here just so we can do other activities other than our monthly meetings,
which i enjoy, but i think we could do more, at least with Installfests
ors newbie stuff. I know Michael has some ideas for LUG meetings and fests
of sorts. We were tempted to start a LUG when were in Trenton and get the
guys from Truman and the neighbroing areas around... and maybe see about
teaching a linux course at the community college in Trenton. But we hadn't
gotten that far, and i left again.


 >
> Regarding alcohol:  You know that MLUG should not have alcohol at official
> MLUG meetings.  That's a bad idea for several reasons, some of them legal.
> But, no matter how anyone feels about alcohol, a lot of people like it, so
> why doesn't one of those people just write to the MLUG members list and
> say "I'll be at XXXX for a beer on YYYYY night at ZZZZ o'clock."  Pick a
> happy hour somewhere, or whatever, and go for it.  It's not an official
> MLUG meeting and people who don't want to drink or be around drinkers can
> stay away from it.  Who knows, you might meet people you like and write
> programs together.  If another member wanted to organize a similarly
> informal meeting at a place that did not serve alcohol, s/he is free to do
> so.

I agree, no alcohol at official meetings due to well, you are rather under
University care here. ;)  and University events really shouldn't 'promote'
alcohol.  BUT the going out for a beer at Berg witht he LUG guys sometimes
would be JUST fine! :)

> Regarding women:  True, there aren't a lot of women in MLUG, and I don't
> know of a good way to get them into MLUG or to attend a meeting.  That
> doesn't mean it's impossible to find women who are interested either in
> Linux or in the men of MLUG.  Maybe the women who are already in MLUG can
> do something to encourage more women to join.  Also, I know that some of
> you guys live in Missour and actually know women (or are even married to a
> woman!) -- have you actually tried to talk women into joining MLUG or
> attending MLUG meetings?  I'm not sure that we've done much recruiting.

Unfortunately most of the women i know into LInux are not in missouri and
not very many around Las Vegas in that part either. I have one friend who
adores Suse and her Mac computers. and i'm getting a girl in my study
group into linux. There are women, and lots of them, just not many around
missouri, and most in the US not really in these areaas i guess. A lot of
US women i know are mostly like california i think. and some in Oregon.
Most of the women on the Linuxchix list are out of country. mostly
Australia or europe. Try hitting the CS department for any women in there,
or the engineering departments for women students :)  If i were out there,
i'd try to do a more sciency kind of demo for ppl, might get some interest
there.


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