Karl Cunningham wrote:
It's great for me but I have a car. I don't know the public transportation situation at SDCOE, but it does seem pretty dark around there when leaving our meetings. I was thinking that for public outreach, it might not be ideal.
Meeting space was a problem for a long time. But for years now we have had the SDCOE space and it has worked out well and we are very reluctant to give it up. I've always wished we could get regular meeting space at SDSU. It has public transportation (I remember when I was a student there and I participated in a poll as to on which side of campus the trolley stop should be. 10 years later we have our trolley!) and is nearby a large group of potential Linux users: students. But again the problem with educational institutions is that you usually need a faculty sponsor who gives a care enough to actually arrange for the meetings and that is hard to come by.
My very first LUG meeting was at SDSU. We had something like 4 people. It met once and never met again. In hindsight I really wished we had kept it up but I had plenty of friends online which made the LUG not a real high priority. This is a problem KPLUG has as well as far as getting people to come to physical meetings. User group meetings of all sorts have had severely decreased attendance since the Internet has taken off. Even the trade shows are feeling the pinch.
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