[SLL] Seattle only?

[Steve Herber]

Phil:  You are probably the only member from Estelí?, Nicaragua.  Braggart!

And thanks for setting up the pizza and beer meetings and the others at
the back rooms in the SSC offices and at the library.

As to the question of promoting the list, I wonder what the goal of the
promotion would be.  The people on the list have found it one way or
another and so they have the list that they like.  If the list was not
working they would leave or suggest changes.  Just getting more people
on the list serves no declared purpose.

If SSC wants to offer additional services, such as this list, to promote
Linux and their publishing products, then there needs to be a value
in the service.  I could imagine a short article or editorial in the
Journal that mentions this list and other free services offered by SSC
and then ask your readers to report about other valuable, lesser known
lists that people might be interested in and also ask if they have ideas
for other lists or services that SSC could sponsor.

And thanks for the list!

-- 
Steve Herber	herber at thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Phil Hughes wrote:

> Well, the list did start as a glorified announcement list for "pizza and
> beer" nights in Ballard. Many years ago now (maybe 10) I remember doing a
> bit of analysis on the list members and at that time about half were in the
> Seattle area. Not sure about it these days--I think I am the only member in
> Estelí, Nicaragua. :-)
>
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Mitch Frazier <mitch at ssc.com> wrote:
>
>> A number of long time users send to this list with the email:
>>
>>   Seattle Linux Users Group <linux-list at ssc.com>
>>
>> We're wondering, as in "we" at Linux Journal (we own ssc.com and host
>> this list), if this is/was really intended to be a Seattle only Linux
>> user's list.  And if so if its desired to keep it that way.
>>
>> If that's not the case we would like to promote the list once in a
>> while.  If its preferred to be Seattle only that's fine.
>>
>> Maybe somebody that's been here a while can fill us in on the history of
>> this list.  I suspect Phil started it, but I don't know.