On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:39 +0530, Prashant Verma wrote:

> 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. 

Exactly, that is the reason why I advocate dropping the idea of having
meetings and instead having Linux theks that are more restricted in
their scope.

> 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. 

In my experience, there is no point in having meetings with 5-7 people.

> 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.

Typical attitude of the the members of the LUG. As long as there is
somone to provide free they will attend a meeting of free software. 

> 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

Theks are smaller in scale, typically involving people who use and want
to use Linux in a particular Locality, Like the Madhyamgram GLT.
Tyically what we'd be looking at is maybe having a Golpark Thek at maybe
Sharmaji's place with people living in an around Golpark, Gariahat and
Ballygunge attending.



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