Yes, 100 miles is about the limit for me. That said, Syleham is only 25 miles from Norwich, so probably don't want those two too close.
True if you are travelling east from Kings Lynn :-) But if travelling from the north or south, that adds another 50 miles to the journey.
I think that one the key points is that this is not every month but twice a year only.
I would like to try it and if we as a group find that attendance is being badly affected then we can reconsider. ALUG won't die in the Norwich/Syleham region because of a some smaller meetings over the next 12-18 months, surely?
I think that in order to increase attendance we need more meetings, more regularly, more predictably [...]
Sure. Go for it, but I think we still need to make it easy enough for people to attend "out of area" as well, to avoid each place boiling down to the "same old half-dozen sat in the same room each time" that afflicts some LUGs.
Well that is also very true although I think the remedy is not to assume that linux-interest is just a few people who will drive all over eastern England.
There are also a growing number of people who will want to go to local meetings if they are regular and advertised in advance. As you know, that is one of my goals for the Norwich area.
So, basically, we need to consider (a) target audience(s) including very technical content for the specialists and experts as well as novice support, (b) content, (c) publicity.
General interest in linux is growing therefore, looking ahead a year or two, meetings will grow unless we mess it up. That's my theory anyway but maybe it's me that's the dreamer :-)
Syd