[Watford] Future Meetings

[Jonathan Dibble]

HI there,

Well I for one don't mind paying £5 toward the room, and certainly can
commit once a month.  For me it is more the day of the week rather than
the frequency, Wednesday is my preferred day?

Matt is the new guy in charge?

cheers,
jon

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:58 +0000, Mark Stewart wrote:
> Matt,
>  
> Well voluntered and good suggestions that we will follow but I still
> think people need to commit to coming to the meeting before we set one
> up (at least 5 people). As I mentioned I am stepping down as Chair
> person - u ready to take up the post?
>  
> Mark
> 
>  
> On 10/01/07, Matt Marsh <matt at mattmarsh.net> wrote: 
>         Hi,
>         
>         On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:02, Mark Stewart wrote:
>         > Hi Jon,
>         >
>         > I would happily have monthly meetings but for the last six
>         meetings 
>         > we have only had 2 - 5 people show up and it costs me £32
>         pounds a
>         > time to book the library.
>         >
>         > If people are happy to commit to monthly meetings and we
>         split the
>         > cost the answer would be yes.(volunteers please!) 
>         
>         Sorry that I haven't been able to make it for the last few
>         months but
>         I should be in a much better position to get to the meetings,
>         monthly
>         or quarterly, for next 6 months at least.
>         
>         I suggest that things which might encourage more people to
>         come along 
>         to the meetings are:
>         
>         - Have some sort of demo or topic arranged for each meeting,
>         say
>            for the first hour of the meeting. Following that there
>         will still
>            be plenty of time to give people help with any problems
>         and/or go 
>            to the pub.
>         
>         - Put out some email to the mailing list approx a week in
>         advance
>            of the meeting to remind people that it will be happening
>         etc.
>            In the past often the reminder has only been on the day of
>         the 
>            meeting or the day before and people might not be able to
>         arrange
>            to be there etc.
>         
>         If others agree with the above then I would happily volunteer
>         to start
>         off the demos with a demonstration of configuring and using
>         the 
>         asterisk[1] open-source PBX for the March meeting if people
>         are
>         interested?
>         
>         Matt
>         
>         [1] http://www.asterisk.org/
>         
>         
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