JUG Status, the year 2015, and the verification of real humans

[Mykel Alvis]

Hi JUG,

It's been quite a while since this group had any activity and I expect that essentially everyone has a filter for it.

However, as I'm now back in B'ham essentially full-time, I'd like to gauge interest in restarting the local JUG.

Here's how I'm going to do this:  

• The group has 130 members, more or less.  
  
• If at least 13 responses indicate that they'd like to have the group meet again by 2015-01-31, then I'll call that a start.
• On or around the 15th of January, I will re-send a link to this post to the actual individual email addresses of the members that I have access to (to briefly circumvent their filters :) )
• I will attempt to verify that all responders are actually willing and able to attend physical JUG meetings in or around Birmingham.  
  
• This will basically involved a personal email from me with the expectation of a response from a real human who can with some veracity state that they're in or around Birmingham, AL USA.
• As has generally been the case, recruiters are generally welcome here (in a non-intrusive way) but you don't count toward the goal of 13 people.
• If I can verify at least 13 people (to my satisfaction), I will reassert the effort necessary to crank this group up again.
  
• If not, then I will delete the group and its owning email address.  
• There aren't very many old threads with a great deal of value anyway.
• I think this will make the email and name of the group available to someone in the future assuming there's a renewed interest

NOTE:  

To cast your vote for "B'ham's JUG is a lost cause", do nothing.

To cast your vote for "Reboot the JUG", you must reply to this thread.

M