2009/5/23 Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> > 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 ... :-) >
The LUG I may well be joining [1] has something similar to what Jim is proposing. Afternoon of first Sunday of the month for a presentation or what have you, and a pub evening on a fixed day of the month. In their case the 15th. Even though they seem, from their web page, to be in a similar state of activity as us, I think that that is worth trying. [1] http://www.aberlug.org.uk/ -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
