A mate of mine runs the Brisbane Infrastructure Group (BIG) by calling in personal favours from friends in the industry and does so all on his own time. He recently blogged ‘Building Community Hurts – Part 2‘ about how hard building a community is, and how little you seem to get in return for your effort. Of course this was in response to a similar post by one of his mates ‘Building Community Hurts‘.

Dugie, just let me say. I do very much appreciate all the great work you do. One day you will need to teach me to freeze time too because there is no other way you could possibly do all the things you do. :-)

Adam, I had similar experiences a few years ago running my own LAN parties, both private and public. Turnout was often disappointing but I still look back and think what a wonderful time I had, fragging with all those people. I hope you to enjoyed your time. I don’t yet know how hard it is to arrange and run a user-group but I know in the future I will find out.

I suppose my point if I have one, I appreciate what you guys do for us Geeks. It’s something I didn’t have while in Fiji and am grateful to be able to attend over here. To all those other people out there in computer land, always remember to grok your system admin AND thank your user group organiser.