[Lincs] Awakening of Group

[Ben Francis]

J Simpson V21 wrote:

>Quite happy to come to meetings if I am free and they are not too far.  Just
>aware that Lincolnshire is such a large geographical area, it doesn't seem
>plausible to meet in one place.
>
Nobody else has picked up on this point yet. Could this be the reason 
LLUG never really took off the first time round or could it pose 
problems for us in the future?

Is Lincolnshire too large an area to hold meetings for? The Scunthorpe 
meetings mentioned on this list somewhere are 65 miles away from me in 
Bourne making it a 130 mile round trip.

As an even more extreme example it is 94 miles from Stamford to Whitton 
so if there were members in both those towns, even if a meeting was 
right in the middle they'd still have nearly a 100 mile round trip. I 
don't know how far other people are willing to travel for these 
meetings, but the above figures look daunting to me at least.

Should there be North Lincs meetings and South Lincs Meetings? This 
could either mean a group split or two different meeting areas - the 
latter being better for maintaining numbers in the group. Or should 
members on the extreme edges of the area be encouraged to attend other 
groups which may be closer by? The Peterborough meetings for example are 
only 15 miles from me.

Just a thought.

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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