On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Paul Lussier <p.luss...@comcast.net> wrote: > 1. Have a place to hold meetings. > 2. Have a presenter willing to present something of interest > 3. Schedule a time and date > 4. Announce said meeting (right here on this list, or on gnhlug-announce) > 5. Wait for people to show up.
Several months back, on gnhlug-discuss, I raised the question: Would we be better off without the regular speaker concept? My concerns were: (B1) Having a formal speaker every month makes it harder to organize a meeting (and thus makes it less likely for people to have/maintain regular meetings). (B2) Some people may find formal speakers intimidating. If we want to grow a community of plain ordinary Linux users, we may be better off framing things as a peer-to-peer gathering-of-like-individuals. (B3) When we are in the habit of having a regular speaker, then when we *don't* have one, nobody shows up. I don't think that discussion reached anything like a satisfactory conclusion, so I can't say which direction is "better", but it's something to think about. IMO. YMMV. HTH. HAND. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
