[H-GEN] Vice President's report.

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Daniel Devine wrote:

> 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.

Of course but other user groups are thriving, suggesting that we aren't 
looking at the death of the user group (which has bee predicted many 
times).  It follows that this alone can't account for falling membership, 
at least not when the subject matter is more popular than ever.

> 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)

All of them :)  Seriously, the effort required is small IMHO so I think 
Humbug could afford to have a presence on may different forums.

Cheers,

Rob

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