On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[email protected]> wrote: > By all means feel very free to re-start the monthly meetings. > ... > Be warned however that finding competent free of charge orators who live > nearby and know about any of the subject matter below is like finding a > needle in a haystack.
I think there's a big difference between the sort of social gathering that meetup.com likes to promote, and a more formal 'presentations' style. What is working well down here in Dunedin is a bi-weekly social gathering in a friendly pub. Sometimes the tables are covered with laptops, sometimes a whole desktop machine makes it along if there's a particular problem ... sometimes it's just chatting about non-computer stuff. But it's with "like-minded geeks". So 'presentations' isn't working. Try social for a while ... :-) -jim
