On 9/16/05, Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To organise grand meetings on a ragular basis, we need to hire premises. > If we have to organise meetings based on someone's largesse, we can't > really take that person to task if we don't get the venue the next > month. Whereas if we hire a place, I believe we'll be able to take the > venue organiser to task if the venue is not available the next month. To > do that we need money, and one time contributions won't help. We need to > get people to pay admission fee for each meeting. >
With the current level of participation, it is not feasible to hire a venue. And hiring a place which will provide us with the equipment we'd like to have (projector etc.) will be even more expensive and will require even more members to participate. So it is better that the LUG meets where space can be found for a meeting. Meetings with fewer participants are better than no meeting at all. And as news of the excellent chai and singara at the meetings goes around (and Linux of course), we can expect participation to go up. We need people to volunteer space that they can offer for the occasional thek. I can offer a spare room for LUG meetings for the next 6 months or so, but I think it is better to rotate the venue so that if one venue is not so convenient for some participants, there's a chance that the next venue wil be. Prashant Verma -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
