On 2004-07-13 11:00:54 +0100 James Taylor j.e.taylor@uea.ac.uk wrote:
[...PLUG...] 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
PLUG seldom meets in a pub, or am I wrong? I've been to their meetings in an office, an old pub and an industrial unit. OK, all in the same city, but then it's a city-based LUG.
[...] 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.
Hardly a new problem. The solution: surefire standby talkers not afraid of embarrassment like mChicago. ISTR a midlands LUG having to put a standby on instead of ESR not so long ago.
[...] the last kit meet had no kit [...]
...but nothing was planned/wanted with the kit?
The aim of alug from my point of view: A Drinking buddy system for Computer Geeks.
Yuck! I hear there are "buddies" who enjoy drinking computer geeks, but let's keep the meetings clean! ;-)