On Tuesday 19 Aug 2003 11:16 am, MJ Ray wrote:
Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com wrote:
I would like to try it and if we as a group find that attendance is being badly affected then we can reconsider. [...]
Go for it. We can't stop you, although Adam has the ALUG flamethrower at the moment. A suggestion: lay on volunteer transport from the normal Norwich meeting venue to Syleham for the clash once every 6 months if you were still intending Sundays, though.
There's only a 'clash' if both are booked for the same date and that *would* be silly - I have no intention of doing that.
Or do you mean have a joint meeting every six months with transport arranged? That could be interesting, provided there was enough transport and people turned up in time for the lifts :-)
Is Syleham already booked for November and if so what date?
I can't guarantee in advance to go to every Syleham meeting but I am very happy to give lifts to and from Norwich when I do. Given the situation I would make an extra effort in the months when there are meetings in both places.
(Hrm, one as ALUG Xmas and one as ALUG BBQ maybe? The hall there is good for both and November is the next clash.)
That could be interesting too if BJ is up for organising them, especially as combined meetings as above.
BUT... if all this is going to be a problem and cause too many rumbles etc, then perhaps it is simpler to follow BJ's suggestion and have Norwich and Syleham both on three-monthly schedules - that way there are no problems with clashes etc and there are 8 meetings a year in and near to Norwich, plus the monthly evening meets, altogether not too bad at all. Just need to adjust the starting points so we don't have a meeting scheduled for the last weekend in December.
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 :-)
You're not the only one. (Hrm, didn't I see that on a web site?)
Mind you, as someone wrote cynically in Rolling Stone magazine many years ago when the song was first recorded "Imagine John Lennon with no money..." so idealism must be tempered with realism - maybe. Alternatively there is the situationist slogan from May '68 " Be realistic - demand the impossible" which in the current world situation seems more appropriate. Who tells us that ending hunger etc is impossible? What will happen if it continues to increase? Which is the most 'realistic'?
Anyway, I'll stop there :-)
Syd