----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
> I am afraid the North American group is suffering from the same problems as the > UK groups. We are lucky that Jochen and Marcel and Roy and in past years Tony > and Darren like to come over even without the chance of many sales and others > take it as an opportunity to come over for a holiday at the same time. Having > Phoebus over here going to school is also a big plus because he has so much > energy for the QL. We have one person, Al Boehm, who does his best to motivate > and organize and delegate but being such a large country we are spread very > thin and some of the most active QLers can not come to the shows. > Thanks for the reply and to all the others who replied. Sorry to hear that attendance is also a problem in North America, but the point I was trying to make was that from the reports in QL Today it appears that North America still has shows old style with talks, demonstrations and a good social occasion. You can be sure that people would not come from Europe each year if they did not enjoy the shows. Mind you, Al can be a pretty persuasive person. We seem to have a specific problem in the UK that next year lots of people seem interested in organising shows, and that's welcome, but it is too many for those of us who have to travel long distances. Another question is what we do at shows now that numbers are smaller. I don't know the answer to this, which is one of the reasons I started the discussion. Maybe we have to think of putting more emphasis on social events and less on the QL for at least some of the shows (e.g. QUANTA AGM). A QL2000 type event, on a slightly less lavish scale, should be possible once a year, but then we have to think how we give form to more local workshops. Malcolm Cadman made a good point a few weeks ago when he said that organising a shows helps to build up enthusiasm in a local group. Geoff Wicks.
