When the going gets tough, the tough get going - the rest can go too bloody hell. lol<div><br></div><div>You don't need any fixed locations. Real Linux people can crash anywhere and generally do.</div><div><br></div><div>
I've got one big mother of an M20 (J11) service station just up the road from me near Lympne and its just waiting for you guys to come and grab a cafe latte and some free wifi.</div><div><br></div><div>I vote for the KLUG guerilla nomab gypsy option. :D</div>
<div><br></div><div>Internet for venue collaboration + free venues :p</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Mike Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Putting all the politics to one side for the moment, perhaps I could just make a few observations.<br>
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1) Colin is no longer able to put in the work he has in the past (for which we are grateful) to arrange and chair monthly KLUG meetings on a regular basis. At present there does not appear to be anyone in a position or willing to do that role in that way.<br>
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2) There may well be a demand for a student based Linux or Open Source society, such as Luc proposed. For various political and ideological reasons there are objections to KLUG becoming that society. However, if such a society existed there does not seem to be any reason why KLUG could not hold some of its meetings in association with that society. Such an arrangement would provide a venue and some potentially useful cross-fertilisation between the two groups.<br>
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3) We have the domain name registered and paid for for some years to come and Julia is currently hosting it for free. This is a resource which is currently used in a minimal way, but this has the advantage that it is not a huge burden to keep updated, is stable, and it does act as a useful entry point for enquirers.<br>
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4) The mailing list is reasonably active and for the most part well behaved. At the moment is, in essence, the group - that is more or less where we meet.<br>
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5) The IRC channel is, in my view, underused. If people are not willing/able to travel to meetings the IRC channel would provide a useful conversation place in lieu of regular meetings. Perhaps all that is needed is to schedule a regular meeting there and remind people about it on the website and mailing list. This could more easily be an evening thing rather than hitting a weekend and I'd be happy to take that on for a trial period if people would find it helpful.<br>
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6) Given the difficulty of organising physical meetings around the county and getting enough people to attend them I would suggest that perhaps such formal meetings could be reduced to quarterly. If we had four venues which are used in turn, and a person who acts as the organiser for that venue that would mean that each person would have to organise only one meeting per year. The role would involve putting out regular calls for talks etc and organising the agenda in advance of the meeting.<br>
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7) Pub meetings can be great fun and there is no reason why anyone can't organise one in their area. If you want one at a pub near you just find a couple of others who want it too, fix a date [off list], and then if you like, advertise it on this list. If no one else shows up at least three of you had a good evening. It's really that simple. You don't have to commit to making it monthly or any other frequency.<div class="HOEnZb">
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