On 2003-09-03 23:52:40 +0100 Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com wrote:
And that is surely the important issue - do we want to make it easy for people to go to meetings or not?
Yes, but I can see the flip side. We live in a sparse area, so we need to use the region to get good numbers (although more marketing is required first) for feature meetings (yes, we need more features: Debian@Syleham? Need More Speakers. See next email.). Also, the people who do drive far create a useful ad-hoc transport network for otherwise poorly-served areas, which makes it easier. How easy can it be? We can't put ourselves on every ALUGger's doorstep. Even if we did, some effort is still required to go out the door. I also think there's a saturation limit for weekend meets around once a month: when I exceeded it, there were complaints.
The evening meetings have surprised me, but seem to draw from a smaller area and are more general. Can we use them to build weekends back up?