[H-GEN] Vice President's report.

[Daniel Devine]

 While HUMBUG still offers first person support for Unixy and Open 
 Source stuff we have morphed to be more of a social club with a heavy 
 technical slant and a hint of formality. Is this a bad thing? No, in 
 fact it is *exactly* what I like!

 Things have changed. Everybody has the internet and it is their primary 
 source of help and information and also even their primary social 
 platform. The fields of Education and Health have recognised this and 
 are starting to leverage the internet to augment and enhance themselves.

 HUMBUG does have some presence on the interwebs - with the strongest 
 point being on IRC but much of our membership are on all the major 
 social networking platforms. Perhaps HUMBUG as an organisation should 
 more pervasively use social media (as openly as possible!).

 HUMBUG is evolving, people are evolving (devolving, whatever...) and 
 the WWW is the 6th sense that people are developing.

 I think there is some things which should be discussed in an Exec 
 meeting in the near future:
  * How should HUMBUG become more visible in social media?
  * Which platforms should HUMBUG use? (for maximum openness, coverage 
 and minimal effort)

-- 
 Daniel Devine