[NBLUG/talk] NBLUG participants

[Brad Morrison]

Hey Frank,

Thanks for providing the exact numbers! I didn't realize that there are 
so many people on the talk (236) and announce (454) email lists - that's 
a lot!

For comparison to the North Bay Electric Auto Association (NBEAA - 
https://nbeaa.org/), NBEAA only has about 151 people on their largest 
Google Group email list, but they regularly get about double the number 
of participants at their monthly Zoom meetings (about 14-16) compared to 
the number of people that we can get to show up to Spring Thai/Flagship 
Taproom's outdoor tables in Cotati (about 6-8). Just for comparison's 
sake, the NBEAA has about $6280 in their bank account (mostly dues 
reimbursements from their "parent" nonprofit organization the Electric 
Vehicle Association - https://www.myeva.org/) vs. NBLUG's about $140 in 
the cash box.

If anyone has any suggestions or feedback about how we could get more 
people involved in NBLUG or more people on the email list that want to 
show up to the monthly meetings or even just more sharing via the IRC 
channel or this talk email list, feel free to let us/me know. My main 
priority for NBLUG/the larger Linux & open source ecosystem is to get 
more people involved (whether they are users or developers or whatever). 
That springs from my hunch that more users equates to more 
interest/activity which leads to more donations/funds to pay more 
developers to grow the capabilities of open source software in the 
eternal competition with closed/proprietary/corporate software & systems.

Thanks,

Brad

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> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:35:27PM -0700, Brad Morrison wrote:
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>   >    - we aren't exactly sure how many people are currently on the talk and
>   >    announce mailing lists
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> talk:  236
> announce:  454
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