[Gloucs] Fwd: [jug-leaders] How to increase attendance numbers

[John Patrick]

A noval way of boosting numbers attending User Group Meetings.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roman Strobl <Roman.Strobl at sun.com>
Date: 28-Jun-2007 09:23
Subject: [jug-leaders] How to increase attendance numbers
To: jug-leaders at jugs.dev.java.net

Hi JUG leaders,

we are always looking for innovative ways to increase attendance numbers
at Czech Java User Group. This time I suggested our sponsor (Zoom
International) not to only bring food and drinks, but also get hostesses
which will serve the food and drinks. It turned out to be one of our
most succesfull meetings - it was a standing room only. Yes, we did
advertize all what was going to happen upfront :)

So if you want to increase attendance at your JUG, here's a tip (sorry
if anyone finds this method offending - but it works):

Pizza delivery:
http://roumen.name/photos/CZJUG_Platforms/10623405.jpg

Developers waiting for pizza:
http://roumen.name/photos/CZJUG_Platforms/50008204.jpg

The CZJUG co-lead Roman Pichlik has the yellow shirt:
http://roumen.name/photos/CZJUG_Platforms/40830906.jpg

It happened yesterday while I was at Jazoon, so I missed this event,
unfortunately. The topic of the meeting was NetBeans platform vs.
Eclipse RCP, so that might have boosted the attendance a bit, too.

-Roman