If you ask me, then two main reasons:
1. Inconvenient time. 18:00 is not suitable to anybody with a standard job.
2. My interests have shifted somewhat, Linux/free software is no
longer news to me, so although I actually thought that the subject was
interesting, I didn't see it as "worth bother".
You see this as a community thing, a chance to meet IRL. Maybe I can
offer some advice, FWIW. A chance to meet IRL is good when you have a
pretty active online community, with a sense of familiarity. When you
have that, you naturally want to meet the people IRL, and then if
there is a well organized lecture about a subject that is somewhat
relevant, people might make the effort.
The TA Open source club is not connected to any community in
particular. In the past few times that I went, a year or two ago, then
other than Eddy and yourself I didn't know anybody there. I jump on
every opportunity to meet with the members of the Macintosh forum I
participate in. I organize monthly meetings for the Japanese forum in
Tapuz. By the way, for monthly meetings, I consider 10 people a good
turnout. But of course the Open Source community is supposed to be
bigger than the Japanese-studying community, so one might expect
higher turnouts - provided that there was an active, cohesive
community in the first place.
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