[Lincs] The future? [was: The online future?]

[Ben Francis]

Dave Rice wrote:

> anyway......discuss?

I'd just like to make a suggestion (I actually made it a long time ago 
but it seems more appropriate now).

Lincs LUG seems to be struggling (our last meeting was nearly a year ago 
now) and I think (as many people have already mentioned) it's because of 
the size of the county. I'm moving to University in Birmingham in a 
month so I'll only be in Lincolnshire a few months of the year, but for 
those who aren't cowardly jumping ship and posing as a brummy, I have an 
idea.

Why doesn't the group split in half, probably into North Lincolnshire 
and South Lincolnshire? If people have to travel less distance I think 
they're more likely to arrange meetings and meet more often. The 
national LUG community is broad and some may wish to be part of both 
groups, but at least people will have more local, regular meetings.

I may be wrong about this, it might be a bad idea splitting a group of a 
relatively small size, but I think it might work. Perhaps it would be 
worth trying it out, having a North Lincolnshire meeting and a South 
Lincolnshire meeting on September 11th to mark the annivesary of the 
first meeting (this might be too soon to organise).

Some people will find it tricky to decide which meeting to go as there 
is a high concentration of members in the centre of the county and many 
may be reluctant to split the group completely, but even a North and 
South meeting of the same group might help things along a little.

Just a thought.

Ben

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