[Fife Linux Users Group] LUG Meetings

[Gilbert]

Good points James.

I am all for a meet at Brewster, after all, that is where we met the first 
time and it was great. The only downside is that there's no AP but I reckon 
that it is not a major turn off.

Cheers


On Saturday 05 November 2005 23:55, James Eaton-Lee wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> After this month's fairly low key meeting (those of us who were around
> turned up, stood around to see if anyone else would turn up, and then
> given the lack of people, anywhere to sit, or anything to do, left) I
> think we need to re-think where we're holding meetings and how we market
> them - although the venue we're using at the moment has great potential
> for large-scale meetings, it has a couple of significant disadvantages,
> most namely:
>
> * It's quite a long way from civilisation, which makes it:
> - An intimidating place to go for new members, and:
> - Hard to get to for some
> * The 'nice' part of the venue (the bar/meeting area) frequently appears
> to be locked
> * It's quite lonely and intimidating with few people
>
> I think that until we have specific need for a large venue (with place
> for projectors, tables, equipment, etc), we should go back to meeting in
> a pub - the first thing we (generally) do is either eat, drink, or think
> about procuring food and drink, and if we meet in a less formal, public
> place, we'll both be able to do this easily and make ourselves much more
> approachable.
>
> Once we're big enough to warrant seriously organising events (talks,
> presentations, etc), we need to do this too - but with an average of
> four of us attending meetings, it just doesn't seem like there's much
> point at the moment.
>
> This said, then, would people like to meet in a venue in the Glenrothes
> area, such as Brewsters? I think with a regular supply of food in a
> public, populated area, we'd both have better (& better attended)
> meetings and be more likely to attract new members.
>
>
>
> Any comments?
>
>  - James.
>
>
>
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Gilbert Serex