Tracy R Reed wrote:
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.
I'm not convinced this is really a good improvement:
1) A lot of students are very apathetic about clubs in general.
2) A lot of students are very busy
3) A lot of students are taking classes at the exact time that we would
want to hold a meeting
4) Parking at SDSU is annoying if you are a non-student. (Mass transit
is a non-starter for anybody North of about Aero to SDSU).
5) The rooms you will get aren't that great.
Any college that actually has Linux folks to be reached out to probably
already has its own LUG or similar.
If you really want to target a college, I would target Mesa or Miramar
rather than SDSU or UCSD. Mesa and Miramar have a demographic that
would be a better demographic for Linux.
-a
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