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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hey Frank, <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">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! <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">For comparison to the
North Bay Electric Auto Association (NBEAA - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://nbeaa.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://nbeaa.org/</a>), 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
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.myeva.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.myeva.org/</a>) vs.
NBLUG's about $140 in the cash box. <br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">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. <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks, <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Brad</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/14/22 12:00,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk-request@nblug.org">talk-request@nblug.org</a> wrote:<br>
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1. Re: Linux Mint's "popularity, " package management, and
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:02:09 -0700
From: E Frank Ball <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frankb@frankb.us"><frankb@frankb.us></a>
To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
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Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Linux Mint's "popularity, " package
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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
talk: 236
announce: 454
Cheers,
E. Frank Ball III
Scribe, North Bay Linux Users Group
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Frank@NBLUG.org">Frank@NBLUG.org</a>
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