[Wiltshire] Meeting places

[David Fletcher]

At 13:03 10/06/2008, you wrote:
>G'Day,
>
>
>Anyway... Rant over for today.
>
>Simon

OK I'll have one as well:-

As I said a couple of weeks ago, if folks want to organise extra 
meetings, then somebody needs to be there at the start time, every time.

Last night when I arrived at around 21:00, there was already two new 
people waiting to talk to somebody. Nobody else arrived until, what 
was it? 21:30? If I'd not been able to attend last night, the new 
ones would have probably given it up as a bad job and gone home.

So, as well as the meeting venues, I think we should have at least a 
couple of designated representatives who live locally to each venue 
and can be relied upon to turn up on time. I don't mind in the least 
doing this - I'm usually the first to arrive anyway - but there needs 
to be one or two more so that there's always somebody there when, for 
instance, I'm away on holiday. Maybe it would also be a good idea to 
have an email address listed against each venue, for contacting the 
specific representatives for that venue without joining the list. I 
could organise this, but if the members think it's a good idea, I'd 
like to see some sort of commitment before going to the trouble of 
setting it up.

Now that Linux is starting to get into the shops, in the form of the 
Asus EEE for starters, and therefore exposed to the general public 
who mostly have never heard of it, I really think that we as a group 
ought to be getting our act together.

Dave