This is going to end up with a comparison to other lug's (again), to places like plug who have more organisation in their events (organised talks etc). Is there a secondary issue with the differences of something like PLUG to ALUG - PLUG is city based. Most the members will be from locality of a small area. When they swap venue's, its to a pub just on theother side of the city (from Forum to City gate for instance), its not thirty miles away in kings lynn and so on.
Sure there are dedicated members who go that far to meetings, and indeed many people who travel a long way to get to PLUG, but it means that there are other issues at stake - The first is that whilst you have a large ish membership (in terms of unique people who are active and attending meetings), you might not get them all at every meeting, you end up with people who cant attend certain meetings ever, which means that if you try to put on special events or have a meeting to arrange "the future of alug for the next month" then you'll probably certainly not have everyone who should be there, actually be there.
the other issue o being so distributed is that if you have a talk aranged, and the weather is shit, and your talk dude cant get in, then you'll have people turn up (potential newcommers to the group) who might decide not to come ever again. With such large distances to travel, especially in the colder months, people don't want to travel that far.
As for doing more - was it true that people complained about not enough kit meets? the last kit meet had no kit (With the exception of adams beautiful (etc) laptop).
The aim of alug from my point of view: A Drinking buddy system for Computer Geeks.
J