[Lopsa-regional-project] Another local leader chimes in

[der.hans]

Am 14. Jan, 2006 schwätzte Eric Eisenhart so:

> I think Adam identified the two biggest issues with keeping
> groups of this type going:
> 1) Getting people to help out

We need to try out the drupal event management module and see how well it
works.

Many local groups are never going to be organized, but we can help out by
providing mechanisms that provide a semblance of organization.

> 2) Finding speakers

I hope this is something LOPSA can really help with. One way is by finding
speakers. Another way is by providing materials and mechanisms that make
it easy for people to be speakers.

LOPSA could provide good presentations that could be used by those who
aren't yet comfortable with writing their own presentation. LOPSA could
also provide feedback on presentations locals are writing.

We need not only a pretty good practices for change management, but also a
couple of presentations that can be used. For instance, it would be good
to have an elevator pitch, an extended presentation for giving to mgt and
one for giving to tech groups.

> Having a single person doing all (or the majority) of the work of making a
> local group function simply isn't viable for long-term success of a group.
> Okay, technically, if that one person never has other comittments, never
> gets sick, never goes on vacation, never moves out of the area and never
> gets tired of doing it; then it can work; but inevitably one of those
> "nevers" happens.
>
> Now, we could get into a discussion about how groups can deal with that
> issue, but even better would be to add to the list of things LOPSA could do
> for groups: have documents online about best practices for running a group,
> ideas of how to get speakers, etc.
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html is a good potential start to
> such documentation.  (and seems to have a license allowing creation of
> derivative works, even)  Aimed at LUGs, but most of those things apply
> equally to any local tech group.

External sources like this are probably our best bet for running an
organization, so we can concentrate on sysadminny things.

Are we ready to start documenting the regional project?

Ooooh, someone added a table...

https://lopsa.org/local

ciao,

der.hans
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