[Rnb] Re.Next meeting

[David Goodwin]

> So the next meeting, before setting a date I think we should ask ourselves "how often do we want to meet? Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly."

"Every so often" ? I'd be happy for there to be a more regular meeting
- but personally, I doubt I'd be able to do e.g. monthly or
  fortnightly. I'm sure I'd attend some though.

> 
> The benefits of say a fortnightly meeting is that members tend to remember that the event is on.
> The downside is that it will require a program of events, which will take some organizing and after a while this become difficult to manage.
> 

Indeed. If this level of organisation/routine is required, I'd rather
people banded together and e.g. went to South Birmingham LUG - as they
already have a structure and seem quite good at organising a wide
range of talks. Presumably there would be some scope for e.g. lift
sharing etc.

> The other issue is do we want to run a proper club, with chairman, treasurer etc. 
> My own view is to stay away from those commitments.

No. There's no point in that - unless RnBLug was to mutate into
something quite different.

> 
> Another issue is how big do we want this group to become. Our last meeting was quite sociable, do we want a club with say 50 members.
> 

As big as possible, but I don't think it would ever grow to e.g. 50
(who turn up to meetings). There just aren't enough people in the 
catchment area!


> Another beef that I have is that some clubs develop into a situation whereby a handful of people do all the work while the other 45 turn up to be entertained, a cheap night out. You only get out what you put in. Do we want the group to develop in this way?

No, but I've never seen a group where 100% of the members are all
heavily involved. I'm personally happy if e.g. one new face shows up
at a meeting.

David.

-- 
David Goodwin 

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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