[Rnb] Re.Next meeting

[Darren Mansell]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:34:30 +0100, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk>
wrote:
> 
>> 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.

I should be OK to make a meeting every month but I do have other
commitments, also I like to attend the SBLUG sometimes.

> 
>> 
>> 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.

SB LUG is very well organised, has good meeting facilities at the Uni and
is quite busy. I joined that before even thinking to look for a more local
LUG. RnB LUG is great to have as a small local group for when only very
local will do but as said, if popularity and attendance count then perhaps
we can go to the SB LUG meetings. I don't mind lift sharing but going from
Bromsgrove I also find its great to catch the 18.42 train to Birmingham,
get off at Aston University about 19.00 and get the 21.05 or 22.05 train
back. If its a social event then going to New Street is fairly easy to get
to also. Not sure about Redditch.

But if theres more people going over I can always offer a lift.

>> 
>> 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!

Even if Linux got as big as Windows then I don't think LUG's would get much
bigger than they are. You don't see big WUG's around (or maybe you do?)