Brett Johnson <[email protected]> writes: > I know that vtsda has regular meetings with a particular agenda and > charges admission fees. Often times meetings are done at lunch and > food is provided to boost attendance (particularly since it's a nice > get-out-of-work excuse). I don't really like that route though. Kind > of goes against the whole 'open' principle.
I don't have any problem charging for the (non-profit) covering of expenses, of course, but the deal-breaker for me for vtSDA is a) the topics generally aren't interesting as a practicing developer and b) the mid-week meeting time conflicts with work. I'm not how "open"ness relates, though. > What about some sort of bulletin for meeting topics where members can > vote them up/down based on desire to focus on them and people can > volunteer to present on the topic? Doesn't solve the scheduling thing > but it might generate more ideas for discussion and people that have > knowledge in the area or space to host can offer the remaining pieces > to make it happen... We've not-really tried this in the past with http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Future_topics http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=25e3f is pretty cool. I think the more important thing with either is keeping it in use: pruned, populated and used. People can volunteer at any time, of course. :) When I did regularly call for meetings, it was usually of the form, "we should have a meeting next month, if anyone wants to present on something, please speak up!" … rarely did people do so. I think we need someone who actively seeks out and solicits content from others, at least until there's momentum and a critical mass of people regularly volunteering content. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
