Maybe if they re-open Georgie Pie Riccarton we can start the CLUG
meetings there!
I distinctly recall Volker being there.
Though if its in a McDonald's I think I'll pass.
Cheers
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
2009/5/23 Jim Cheetham <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Christopher Sawtell
<[email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://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
