[TriLUG] The sum total of my reelection campaign's advertising budget...

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I really like the way TriLUG operates as an organization. This is from a 
person who helped found two LUGs and was on the board of directors of a 
third. Some questions...

On Monday 09 May 2005 08:18 am, Joseph Tate wrote:
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> Create a mini-course committee.  This committee, appointed by the SC,
> would be in charge of setting up a mini-course nearly every month.
> They would organize the venue, the speaker and arrange for the
> refreshments, as well as any publicity necessary.  This committee
> would also run our installfests and/or organize them with other LUGs
> in the area (i.e. NCSULUG or DULUG).

How many members does TriLUG have? It takes a substantial local membership to 
field committees beyond the steering committee.

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> Expand our membership benefits.  Beyond discounts at local ISPs and
> Retailers and simple IMAP/POP3 mail services, I'd like to provide
> Secondary MX services to any members who wish it.  Some other services
> we could provide might include livejournal-like blogging space, and
> maybe even webdav space.  As part of the CMS system mentioned above,
> I'd like to set up for sale/trade forums, social event planning
> forums, etc to keep the traffic on the list on topic, and relevant.
> (I can't claim the idea about forums to be entirely original, but I'd
> like to implement it.)  There are also a miriad of benefits that a few
> people are taking advantage of, but that aren't necessarily standard
> benefits.  I would like to change that.

How have you gone about getting discounts on local hosting, and especially at 
retail stores. I'd love to be able to accomplish that for GoLUG. I'm sure 
Marc M would love to do the same for ForensicLUG.

Once again, compliments go out to TriLUG. Your mailing list is great, and the 
way you function as a community and an organization is superb.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org