I think the current format of the whole evening more-or-less works. The pre-meet drink/curry, then meeting, then drinks & curry is quite flexible and lets people socialise at the point of the evening that fits in with their work/life(ha!)/partner/pets/AA-meetings.
I guess it might be useful to have a name-list for signing at the meets which would let us track %regulars / %newbies / %irregulars which I'm sure someone could do something useful with :-) As for meetings & talks, I think we should maybe try a few experiments. Maybe try a panel Q&A if we can get 3 or 4 people who know about a subject to take questions (and not fight with each other... ;-). Also advertising the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address more as a point of contact for people to submit ideas or potential speakers. If we go to a "one talk every two months", then on the alternate months it might be good to have a more decent meal in it's place seeing as we don't have to rush out to the meeting? Maybe not One Devonshire Gardens or anything - but I'm sure we can come up with something :-) A good dinner is always good for getting talking done - though it does up the potential cost of the night, though might attract people who didn't want to spend the night just drinking... I'd also like to suggest something like a bi-annual hardware swap. Get rid of old kit, take other peoples old kit away. To be advertised outwith scotlug too in order to lure newbies :-) The other issue is the date in the month. A few people find the last thursday quite tricky as it's just before payday so some discussion has been had on IRC about moving to an alternate day. 1st thursday, 2nd? Monday as the beer is cheap? Billy. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
