[Hudlug] Possible Revival of HudLUG Meetings

[Christopher Newman]

>> ....still working on venues....

Have you considered the University of Huddersfield as a venue?  Enquire at the library to see if they will give you a room etc.   You might even get some new members.  No alcohol though.  :-(

Regards,
Christopher.

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Subject: Re: [Hudlug] Possible Revival of HudLUG Meetings

Cheers Paul.

> I'd say that wifi is nice, but not essential.  There are usually
> enough people have smartphones/3G dongles that if you desperately need
> something off the internet you can probably get it. In practice even
> good public wifi is unlikely to be sufficient to download large distro images, etc.

Hehe - have you exceeded the fair use allowance at Vertitas? You are probably right - but it can be annoying if you are expecting a free connection, and find that there isn't one, or the logon process is farr too silly. Actually, I do have a portable wifi router - but am about to cancel my 3G dongle contract, as I rarely use it any more ;-)

Yes, I'm sure there are ways around it. Anne's suggestion of prior notice, so people can turn up having already downloaded app is a good one.  Bringing software on USB sticks and CDs, for popular distros, might work too I guess.

> I agree that talks are the key.  I really doesn't matter that much how
> formal these are, or even that they be directly linux related.  Even
> if the link to linux is tenuous, you'll find that folks are much more
> likley to addend (and come back subsequent months) if there's a
> pre-organised talk/demo.  In my experience this is by far the hardest
> part of organising these events.  The first couple of months are easy,
> but after that it requires sustained effort to find/coerce new
> victims^Wspeakers.  While it may be true that everyone has something
> interesting to talk about, most will only do so if prodded with a sharp stick.

Having organised and run groups for various purposes in the past, I can appreciate the problems - and I know it isn't easy. Initial enthusiasm can quickly turn into frustration, as the doldrums set in. Groups almost have to be continually reinvented - in a kind of Marxist "perpetual revolution" stylee - to keep people interested.

....still working on venues....

David

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