[volunteers] (forw) Guide and Support

[Jesse Monroy]

Greetings Albert,
I am Jesus (Jesse) Monroy, Jr. one of the volunteers Rick speaks of.
I was the former president of the SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User Group).
Recently, we were lucky enough to have Yudhvir as our speaker
coordinator. With him, we were able to get many good speakers
and new members.

As the organizer, I suggest you spend your time getting other
people to help, and help each other. Even if it takes two or three
people to do the job of one person - badly, this is much better than
having one person that does it very well. I say this because it is much
easier to find a new person that will cooperate with two(2)
others than find one person that does it very well.

My advice.
Good Luck,
Jesse

On 4/16/13, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Albert A. Ninyeh (linuxusersgroupgh at gmail.com):
>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:22:15 -0700
>> From: Linux Users Group Ghana <linuxusersgroupgh at gmail.com>
>> To: officers at lists.svlug.org
>> Subject: Guide and Support
>>
>> Hello SVLUG,
>>
>> My name is Albert Ninyeh, an Open Source advocate who is passionate about
>> FOSS, Open Source Hardware's, DIY, Embedded system etc. I am from Ghana,
>> West Africa. I have managed to set up a LUG Group in my country and we
>> currently in a group on whatsApp, for the past weeks i have been
>> searching
>> online for similar communities until i hit your website which i found it
>> very educating on what you guys are doing. I will really appreciate it,
>> if
>> i could be guided on ways to manege and make this little group i have
>> organized to be something grater. Learning resources, link and personal
>> coughing will be very much appreciated.
>
> Greetings, Albert.
>
> As you may have noticed on the main SVLUG mailing list, SVLUG has in the
> last few years had a critical staff shortage.  You sent your query to
> the 'Officers' mailing list, which technically still exists but is
> vestigial because one of our past presidents made changes that rendered
> it useless and almost completely devoid of membership.  As you will see
> on http://www.svlug.org/officers.php, SVLUG has also not had elected
> officers since 2009, when an election was held and nobody was interested
> in running.
>
> Since then, several interested volunteers with no particular title or
> mandate have attempted to hold the group together.  I am one of them,
> and the Volunteers mailing list (Cc'd) exists for their discussion of
> administrative matters.
>
> All of us are a little time-strapped, and I don't know what specifically
> you are asking.  Speaking for myself, any wisdom I have to offer to LUG
> leaders elsewhere has gone into the Linux User Group HOWTO[1], which I
> maintain for the Linux Documentation Project.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
> http://linuxmafia.com/lug/User-Group-HOWTO.html
>
> And also this opinionated personal essay, FWIW:
> 'New LUG' on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Essays
>
> [1] I notice Michael Paoli opined that it's a little dated, but also
> that he couldn't bother to send any update suggestions whatsoever.  I do
> update it, but only on occasion when time permits.
>
>
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