[HLUG] Topics at Meetings

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 22:57 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > Actually, that raises an interesting point, is it worth splitting the  
> > meetings or alternating between "desktop" and "server" or "user" and  
> > "administrator/developer" as guidelines for the kind of expertise that  
> > the talks are aimed at?
> >   
> Interesting point, but I think until we need to get more steady higher 
> numbers to our meetings, otherwise we will end up diluting things too much.

Sorry, I should have been clearer.  I meant "Splitting Meetings" in the
sense that the first half is "Desktop" and the second half is "Server"
or something to that effect?

> I know Shropshire LUG were having bimonthly meetings, ie every two 
> months as they didn't find there was enough interest to sustain monthly 
> meetings, but I sort of wonder whether its just too long between 
> meetings ? If you cant attend one due to birthdays, band practise, 
> illness etc, etc then you would go 4 months between meetings - a pretty 
> long time ..

I'd agree with this.  I think that 4 months is definitely too long
between meetings and I should know, it's been at least that since I last
attended, in fact I think it was still light when the meeting started!

Kind regards,

Matt