[Klug-general] New Dartford Venue

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Colin_The_Technician <binarysignal at gmail.com>:

> Glad to hear we have a replacement.  Should we rename the LUG the 'A2
> corridor LUG'? :-)
> Saturday was a rather poor turnout, but was good fun and I learnt a
> lot again (thanks Paul).
>
> It got me thinking back to some of the better meetings the LUG has had
> and the Sunday one we had in Maidstone when we demo'ed and worked on
> MythTV.  Loads of people turned out for it.
>
> Would Sunday be a better day for people?  And encourage more people to
> attend than on a Saturday.  Was the MythTV at Maidstone meeting so good
> because it was planned well and we all knew the 'topic/projects'
> beforehand?
>
> What do people think?  When I joined in February the KLUG seemed to be
> taking off, but now it seems to have slowed down.  How can we (all
> members) improve it?
>
> Colin

For me, it's an issue of getting to meetings.

I live in Thanet and I don't drive. I also don't want to spend an hour  
or so on a train if I can help it and I've got a load of other stuff  
going on at the moment (my wife's 6 months pregnant!) so anything  
thats more than about twenty minutes away by foot, bus or bike is out  
of the question.

I've floated a few thoughts on the Thanet LUG list - however that  
seems to be all but dead - about a LUG meet in the Thanet/Canterbury  
area and there was a suggestion of a possible meeting place in  
Broadstairs which would be ideal for me, however I've not moved on it  
yet as there was only about five people interested.

A previous LUG I was a member of found a local pub for a few meetings,  
got to know the Landlord and then gained permission to use his pub for  
all our meetings in exchange for installing and configuring (at the  
landlord's expense) his broadband connection and a wireless connection  
across the pub - not a bad deal all in all [0].

My £0.02,

Matt


[0] wireless and beer is not always a good cobimnation - we regularly  
held a "whats the weirdest thing you can find on eBay" competition and  
a number of people ended up buying things they didn't need but were  
"really cool" at the time. ;)
-- 
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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