I much as I like the idea of a lunch meeting, our meetings tend to be very long and often have 2+ hours of discussion. As many of us do not have 3 hour lunch breaks (or in my case, having the benefit of a set lunch break. I tend to totally work through mine) we would have to leave early or not attend at all.
I do like the idea of having a monthly lunch that us outside of the regular meeting. Probably without a formal presentation, but a great networking opportunity. Perhaps have it in different parts of the city. That might help address the driving and distance issues discussed some time last year. We could have a lunch in orange park one month and at the beaches another month. Those that are convenient to the selected location could attend most all lunches while those that really cant travel an hour to our evening meetibgor are busy during the evening hours can come and say hi. Would be nice to put faces to the names! Places like Panera, applebees, chilis or whatnot are often very receptive to giving groups a dedicated area. Something like a friday 1 hour lunch meeting where we can all just socialize, quite informal-like. That might just help recruit new members too. Dragging your friends and coworkers to the lunch would probably be much easier than urging someone to give up an evening. Side note: second webcam acquired so a live stream in addition to an HD local record is looking much more possible. Michael Potts (904) 638-2914 Send from an Android Nexus One. Please excuse the spelling and brevity. On Mar 25, 2011 11:24 PM, "Laura Hartwell" <[email protected]> wrote: > I would definately be interested in daytime meetings. I work 6p-midnight > 6 nights a week so daytime meetings are really my only option outside of > eavesdropping via webcast while working > > Laura. > -- > Laura Hartwell > Hartwell Enterprises - Professional IT Services > http://www.laurahartwell.com > Element9 Communications > http://www.element9.net > Fast, reliable, and economical hosting solutions for personal and > business websites > > > On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 22:23 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> Since we are discussing days, one thing we have never discussed is >> shifting the meeting time to be during the day. Can be lunch time or mid >> afternoon. Just to toss that out there. >> >> Daytime meetings might be a problem for some. At the same time others >> have an excuse to get time off from work. For something that could be >> work related. Score points with the boss, and get time off from work. >> Without taking time away from ones personal life, outside of work in the >> evenings :) >> >> If we have enough interest, presenters, topics, etc. We could very well >> have more than one meeting per month, one during the day and one at >> night. >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] >
