On 19 November 2013 11:12, Ian Moss <[email protected]> wrote: >> We tried it, had very few people turn up, was mostly regular members. > > Maybe it's that the northern quarter is actually out of the way for a > lot of potential attendees. Perhaps a whole NWRUG at the uni would be > great :) > > In fact, maybe all of the user groups could iterate through upstairs at > KRO Uni (great beer. Free room hire).
Madlab is central, an easy walk from the major stations. I think there'd have to be a fairly major skew towards the Uni area for madlab to be out of the way, but i'm willing to be proved wrong. > I've long since given up wondering why the students don't seem to make > it to the northern quater / town meetups. Sure it's a combination of > busyness, and cba'ness. But taking the meetups to them occasionally > could work wonders :) Students at tech meetups in Manchester are very rare, but I'd hesitate to inconvenience the people for whom central Manchester is convenient to overcome the potential laziness of a group that has shown almost 0 interest over the last 5 years. Perhaps it's a marketing problem. -- Will Jessop System Administrator 37signals -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
