[Lincs] Awakening of Group

[Marc Mc Guinness]

Hello again,

Ben Francis wrote the following on 26.06.2004 20:40:
> 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.

Lets wait and see where LLUG people live.

BTW: Sammi, are you working on a member sign-on?

Best regards,

Marc