On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:31:07AM -0500, C. Garrett Goebel wrote: > If anyone else is up for it, I'd like to try having 2 standing > "social" meetings per month on different days of the week... one near > KC,MO and another out by I-35/I-435/K10. Where the week of the month > would not conflict with KCLUG meetings. Using different days of the week > would help alleviate scheduling conflicts for some people for those > people who aren't too far away from either location. I think that > would maximize the number of people who could be involved.
I think that having two meetings per month would mean that we would get about half as many people in each meeting. I personally am not too keen on going to biweekly meetings, so I'd just go to every other one. I'd hate to get essentially two groups: kcmo.pm.org and kcsouthland.pm.org. That's a bad scenerio. I would attend monthly meetings if we alternated between KCMO and suburbia each month or even just moved them to Overland Park for a while. I don't mind driving out to JCCC or wherever for meetings. Maybe it's time we Missourians pay our dues like the SprintLand folks have been doing for ~5 years. What about someplace like Barley's Brewhouse at about 119 and Quivera? Free WiFi, beer on tap, tolerable barfood, and surely wouldn't mind if we scooted a few tables together? > If there's no standing agenda to the meetings. Then I think people might > be more likely to make it a regular thing. I'll try to be more diligent about indicating anticipated discussion topics. I recall that when you encouraged book reviews, weekly puzzles, and stuff like that the attendance was higher and the discussion stayed more centered around perl. > If the meeting venues are near > enough to JCCC and UMKC/Rockhurst... we might eventually pick up some > spill over interest from the college crowd. Anyone know any applicable college mailing lists to occasionally announce to? I think that David is our official college contact or something. -A PS - I will not drive to Lima for meetings! _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
