i agree<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@nikdoof.net">lists@nikdoof.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>tony burrows wrote:<br>> If I'm right, we have a meeting next week. In that case, sorry but I<br>> can't be there, I'll be in Nice.<br>><br>> I was thinking about the group and the fact that attendance seems to
<br>> have dropped off over the last few months. It feels to me a bit like<br>> we're losing our way here. We have had some nice presentations in the<br>> past, but perhaps we need to formalise things a bit. Such as:
<br>><br>> 1 - work out a set of presentations for a few months ahead, so that we<br>> can get others in. General and technical ones.<br>> 2 - Resurrect the idea of a table in one of the computer fairs to<br>
> provide help for newcomers, though I know that abacus fairs seem to be<br>> dropping off as well.<br>> 3 - Possibly a tie-up with the local BCS branch. This month (tonight)<br>> they are having a discussion on the whole concept of open-source and
<br>> whether it works (blind leading the blind to some extent, when I<br>> mentioned it a couple of years ago the misconceptions were incredible)<br>> 4 - Is there a way we can get some local publicity? Even just a report
<br>> of a presentation in the local free press?<br>> 5 - There are some local science/technology fairs for schools. Could we<br>> have a presence there?<br>> 6 - A more formalised problem session at the meetings?
<br>><br>> And then I run out of thoughts.<br>><br>> Tony<br>><br><br>A few days late, but i've got something i'd like to add<br><br>My main issue is that Tuesday nights are a bit difficult to get to, I
<br>leave work in Birchwood at 5:30 and just manage to get home at about<br>6:30 (depending on the trains), i can imagine its a bit more difficult<br>for some people. Maybe the meetings would be better held on a Saturday?
<br>It would possibly mean the loss of the current venue but would probably<br>encourage people to attend who have some free time on a Saturday.<br><br>Maybe trying to arrange for bigger names in the community to come do<br>
talks every so often, publish/advertise them through other local lists<br>and general UK linux user mailing lists, any maybe online tools like<br><a href="http://Upcoming.org">Upcoming.org</a>.<br><br>Just my two cents on the topic :)
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