Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:43:04 +1000 > > > There was a discussion at the June SLUG meeting, about alternate > venues....maybe a pub at Broadway or Community centre/friendly > employer in another part of Sydney. I sent my suggestions to the > committee/James, but can't offer to be a co-ordinator. > SNIP > I like the idea of multiple locations maybe even times. > Though this would need a co-ordinator or two for each. > On the upside, it should lead an interesting variety of > presentations and attendees. >
My tuppence. If we were to have moving times/dates I know that it would be a rare meeting I would get to. With kids, commitments to three community committees (not including SLUG), my children's sports and games training, evening work and a wife who has late clients I have to have things planned ages in advance and on a regular schedule and time. I'm also dubious about the efficacy of variable times/dates. I think that it may appear flexible and friendly but I don't believe it works. I say this only from the perspective of knowing how difficult it can be to arrange for people to actually attend a one off fixed time/place event once in a year. Trying to get people to volunteer is difficult enough. Someone would then have to coordinate those people and then we arrive at a larger problem of when that fails. Where is the backup? In the present circumstance, we already have a number of people committed to a time/place and as coordinators. The more times/places the more people you need and the more complicated it gets. One option (my thoughts) would be to have an additional meeting in a month at a different venue which could be attended by those who found it difficult to get to the Friday monthly meetings. This one could be variable in time/place and have a separate subcommittee which would organise it. Regards, Patrick -- www.techfriend.com.au Home computer software training and hardware assistance www.mercuryvideos.com.au Stylishly edited DVDs of your photos and videos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
