Propsal & RF2nd- Let's meet in Si Valley for Jan (& permanently)

[Alan DuBoff]

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On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:06 am, tluxt wrote:

> To confirm my suspicion that the above would be a good thing to do, at
> this evening's SVLUG meeting I took a minute of the group's time at the
> beginnning of the meeting, mentioned BAD, told everyone about our past
> rotating meetings, mentioned I'd like to do something to ensure a larger
> turnout, asked (about 80 people at the time I asked) if anyone there was
> interested in attending monthly Debian meetings (about 25-30 hands
> raised), mentioned rotation vs a fixed Si Valley location, and asked
> where people would prefer the meetings. Again about 30 hands raised for a
> Si Valley location, and, interestingly, none for a rotating location.

With all due respect, I think it was more like 10 hands, possibly 15 if one 
was to squint with a strong cross-eyed approach.

> So, it would seem we might, by tonight's SVLUG attendees alone, be able to
> about triple our attendance at future meetings (over the attendance of the
> past few meetings), if they were in Si Valley.

I would certainly be curious if that would happen. I do have some experience 
running user groups and I would agree it would be good to have a central 
meeting place, but I don't see a problem with it rotating.

With that said, I don't have a problem going up to Palo Alto or Menlo Park, 
Sunnyvale, etc...but I do prefer one of these SouthBay locations. This is not 
to say there aren't more Debian users in the EastBay, or up in the city, 
because those meetings have gone on for quite some time.

If it's pure attendance numbers that you're trying to get, I'm sure there are 
a lot of things you can do for that to happen, and taking a leadership role 
might help that, but I've always considered the folks who comprise the BAD 
folks to be more than just a numbers game.

Even if you got 50 people together for such an event, that certainly wouldn't 
change the fact that it might be a different crowd of people...

> So: If _you_ are amenable to meeting in SiV _this month_, please reply to
> this message now saying so.  :)

I might be, can't say right now. I'm curious though, it seems the meetings 
have previously been in Palo Alto/Menlo Park area, or Sunnyvale. Does moving 
it down to San Jose change things for folks that attend those meetings?

I haven't been to them, only due to conflicts with my schedule, but would 
attend up in Palo/Menlo area just the same if my schedule permits.

It might be nice to see more folks get together, but I don't have any 
problems with a small group like BAD seems to get together. I would like to 
hear what others think, I'm sure they'll voice their opinions...but a BAD 
meeting without BAD folks wouldn't be BAD, it might just suck! It's like that 
old saying, "BAD data is better than no data at all".

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.
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