Bill Atkins wrote: > Jamis, > > I'm intrigued about this RUG. How many members do you have? How did > you get it started? I'd love to get involved with something like that > in my area. We've got about 6 (give or take) active members, with three more that have moved and keep in touch via email (Carl Youngblood among them). There are a handful more on our mailing list that haven't been to a meeting in a while. You have to understand--we're at a university with a student body of 30,000+ students. So a friend of mine and I were talking one day and thought, "you know, with so many students (and a sizeable CS department, to boot), there ought to be at least a few people interested in Ruby." Thus, we founded the BYU Ruby Users Group. It started mostly with people in my office, but has gradually grown to include a few other members, mostly by word of mouth. I post those flyers about a week before each meeting, but I don't know that anyone has actually attended a meeting because of one. :) I'm curious: has anyone found a successful strategy for adding members to their RUG? - Jamis > > Bill > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:25:23 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3 / email.byu.edu> wrote: > >> >>Jamis Buck wrote: >> >>>Okay--just a quick request. Could a few of you glance at the flyer and >>>let me know if it looks okay? Any typos I'm not seeing? Etc. FWIW: I >>>left the meeting time at 7, since that seemed to work for people at the >>>last meeting. So...one last time...Tuesday, October 19th, at 7 pm, in >>>room 120 of the TMCB. Sound good? >>> >>> http://www.jamisbuck.org/rug_flyer.pdf >>> >>>Thanks! If no one has any objections, I'll print the flyers out tomorrow >>>and take them to the secretaries in the CS department tomorrow afternoon. >>> >>>Hans or Jacob -- I can't remember who said they could post an >>>announcement to the UUG. :) Whoever it was, you could post the >>>announcement anytime after the flyer is validated. >>> >> >>Arg. I'm stupid. I meant to send this to my local RUG. *blush* >> >>It's too late. I'm not thinking straight. *sigh* >> >> >> >>-- >>Jamis Buck >>jgb3 / email.byu.edu >>http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis >> >> > > > . > -- Jamis Buck jgb3 / email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis