NTLUG er anden største. SVLUG kun tredje største ;v)

["Claus Sørensen" <sslug@sslug>]

Her er et svar fra verden anden største LUG: NTLUG og ikke SVLUG ;v)

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Kendall G. Clark <sslug@sslug>


> Claus and Ian,
>
> I think you guys are engaging in a silly war of words about which LUG is
 > the biggest. Wouldn't it be more fun to figure out how many LUG members
> there are wordlwide?
>
> That's something that would interest me.
>
> Who am I, you're probably asking? Well, in addition to being the author of
> the LUG HOWTO, and so pretty well-informed about LUGs around the world,
> I'm also the President and Founder of NTLUG, North Texas Linux Users
> Group, which is based in Dallas-Forth.
>
> I don't go around talking about how many 'members' we have because it
> seems so damned silly. We don't get nearly the press exposure SVLUG gets,
> but let's face it, SVLUG gets this exposure because of its location; you
> guys run a great LUG out there, from what I can see, but many well-known
> free software people live right there in the area. It would be hard *not*
> to run a great LUG in Silicon Valley.
>
> By the way, as of a week or so ago, NTLUG had 1221 members, but, hey,
> who's counting? I'll let you guys fight it out in public; but if either of
> you are claiming that the other one ought to be acknowledging competition
> for the 'world's biggest LUG', maybe someone ought to acknowledge NTLUG.
>
> All things considered, however, it still strikes me as a silly debate
> that, if we aren't careful, could escalate into a stupid and damaging
> argument.
>
> That's not the public face I want to put on Linux, free software, or LUGs
> generally.
>
> Maybe I need to take a page from you guys book and start claiming that
> NTLUG is the biggest LUG in the world? Nah, who's that gonna help?
>
> Best,
>
> Kendall Clark
> http://ntlug.org/
>
> PS--By the way, if we want to talk  about monthly meetings and such, NTLUG
> evangelized Linux at the Super Saturday computer show in Dallas every
> month at our regular meeting for the past 24 months. The Super Saturday
> show regularly runs 10,000 people on a good day. I estimate that we talked
> to between 500 and 1000 people per month about Linux. That comes to
> between 12000 and 24000 Linux contacts..
>
> We also were the first LUG that I know of to have an installation fest
> *every* month, which we call the Linux Installation Project. We
> have averaged about 30 installs per month for 24 months. I'm very proud of
> that.
>
> NTLUG sponsors free software projects with ftp, web, cvs and mailing list
> services. Both Gamora and Casbah projects rely on NTLUG every day for
> their projects Internet presence. How many free software projects do SVLUG
> and SSLUG support?
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Claus Sørensen wrote:
>
> > Hi Clark
> >
> > Last time I wrote to you you answered that NTLUG had 987 members - I would
> > really be happy if you could tell me how many users you are right now.
> >
> > Why - because if you were 987 members in the beginning of November you
must be
> > over 1000 right now and then be the largest LUG in America. And would you
the
> > please tell SVLUG that their claim to be the largest LUG doesn't even
count in
> > their own country ;v)
> >
> > You can see their claim at
> > http://www.svlug.org/editorials/19990130-largest-lug.shtml and our
Chairman's
> > response at http://www.sslug.dk/~pto/largestLUG.html
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > With the most enjoyable greetings
> >
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