[NTLUG:Discuss] Study Group...

[Kathleen Weaver]

>I have been wondering whether things like the Linux Demo Days fiasco
>would have been easier to handle at a more local level.  A local group
>with only a dozen or so active members could have met in someone's home
>for an improptu get together to organize a very local event.  You just
>can't do that with 1700 members - so all the work falls on the shoulders
>of a single group of club officers who rapidly get snowed under.
>
>Less is more?

You're on the right track -- having put on several large events (and I am NOT volunteering which is why I've been biting my tongue for so long), is that no one person had ownership.  What should have happened on the Linux Demo Days, is that a call for a chairman should have been made, and one person should have been selected as chair.

What happened on the Linux Demo is that everyone sat back and waited for someone else to make a decision.  Never works.