On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:40:28 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:26, Michael wrote: > > Yes, I agree Jim, having Linux meetings "over dinner" is hardly cheap and I > > would doubt its value. > It all depends what one perceives as 'value', I throughly enjoyed the evening > even if the cost was well into the 'luxury' price bracket for us. > > > I wouldn't bother going myself. > I probably won't go to that particular restaurant again. Bar the fish dish, > their almost tasteless fare is not 'Indian' by any sense of the word. > Culturally disappointing, especially when you consider the cost. > yes i agree about the food, a bit disappointing. pity we didn't manage to get Raj Mahal to take us, their food is IMHO superior. However we wouldn't have had the room to ourselves as we did at two fat indians. > > I like my meetings with a $2 doorcharge and the option to get your broken PC > > fixed up! There's the value. > Unfortunately it's just too good. > Door takings have not covered expenses for about the last 3 months. We are > eating into the pot of earnings from the Installfest. not worth it to fix two or three machines, we could do it in someones garage if that is all the need out there. There have been a number of people saying they want things foxed, or mail servers set up . or whatever. but they don't bring their machines along. so it doesn't get done. > > Therefore I'd like to suggest that we limit the number of hall meetings to 4 > to 6 at the most during the coming year. yes back to every second month. > > At our end of the table we formed a consensus that an Installfest at the end > of March would probably be a good idea. Followed perhaps by a Fix-it-up > evening during April or May? I think we decided that the end of march was too close, Leo feels we need two clear months for publicity. > > For hardy souls, a repeat Gentoo Installfest using a distcc compile farm is a > possibility? yes, lets make it work this time! (although we may have saturated the gentoo market on this list?) > > imho, we _DO_ need to have an AGM to attempt to decide whether we want the > CLUG to become a formal entity, or revert to a strictly mailing-list affair, > or indeed something in between, i.e. carry on as we are. > carry on as before, with some committment from members to actually give some interesting talks (talk subjects will interest some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but not...ahh well you know the quote i am paraphrasing). > Personally I don't want to be involved at the committee level for the former, > but would like to feel that I was a member of something a bit more concrete > than just an e-mail list. > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
