[H-GEN] Vice President's report.

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Carl Adams wrote:

I wrote (but was not properly quoted):
>> The great irony here (as has been noted before) is that humbug has
>> decling membership when it's core area (home and OSS Unix) is more popular 
>> than ever.  Membership in the late 90s was something like
>> 120 when hardly anyone outside of hard-core-geekdom had even heard
>> of Linux and friends.
>
> The reasons for this are obvious, surely. If not, I'd rather not be the 
> source of enlightenment.

I assume you're suggesting that since various OSes and apps are easier to 
use & manage now that Humbug is less relevant and people are less inclined 
to come along.  If so I think you are selling the club short.

If I'm wrong as to your suggestion then I would love to hear your sage 
advice.

I think it is singularly interesting that usage of OSS *nix has gone up 
_orders of magnitude_ since Humbug was founded and we haven't even been 
able to keep numbers static.  Even if Humbug was 1% as popular as it once 
was we should still have seen growth.

Rob

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