<div dir="ltr"><div>My situation is similar to Tom's. I'm full time work and grad school atm, as soon as that's out of the way in the Spring, I expect to be back around more like I used to.<br><br>That said, I live down in ER, so the location is far from ideal. If moved from the east end of town, I suspect you will lose the people that occasionally trek up from Ann Arbor and/or Flint.<br><br>It might work better for two alternating locations (even with the associated issues of confusion -- which could probably be handled with an automated email or something) if there are substantial numbers of people commuting from other locations. If we met in Mason one meeting a month or so, I think I could get a new member or two up from Jackson, for instance. I could probably sneak a couple more meetings in here or there myself.<br><br></div><div>Anyone else think it's worth a survey of where people are coming from?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Tom McArthur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ThomasMcA@live.com" target="_blank">ThomasMcA@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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My Linux t-shirts only generate "what's Linux?" questions. Or the
occasional "Are you a MAC guy?" <br>
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Regarding the meetings, it is a bit of a drive coming from Jackson.
That, and being busy with grad school and life in general.<br>
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Regarding a solution, maybe it would help if potential attendees
knew how many people were planning on attending. Those "maybe"s
might become "yes"s if they knew that the meeting was actually gonna
happen. Is there some app or website where people could post their
attendance plans? Something that the group could refer to when
making their own decisions for an individual meeting.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Tom</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 09/05/2014 01:14 PM,
<a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net" target="_blank">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>Robert, </div>
<div> It's summer and people are
traveling and doing other things.</div>
<div> Regarding t-shirts... you
can wear them any where you want. Might start conversations
and get a few more people to show up to the meetings.</div>
<div> ...my two cents...</div>
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Youngs Jr" <a href="mailto:ryoungs@liquidweb.com" target="_blank"><ryoungs@liquidweb.com></a><br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, September 5, 2014 1:07:37 PM<br>
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Attendance?<br>
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I tried going to a meeting back in July and found no one. I
would definitely be interested in giving presentations, though
I think meetings should be held in a more centralized
location.<br>
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Not seeing anyone was a huge turnoff. <br>
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Robert<br>
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> On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Chick Tower
<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com" target="_blank"><c.e.tower@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Last night, and the Thursday before, I was at Schuler
Books for our weekly meeting. I didn't see anybody else
looking for a Linux meeting. Granted, last week I was almost
half an hour late, and it was just before the long weekend,
but last night I was fifteen minutes early.<br>
> <br>
> Attendance has been falling off for years now. What can
we do to increase attendance? I'm specifically asking you who
would be interested in attending meetings, but I want to
encourage anyone with an idea to reply.<br>
> <br>
> Do we need to emphasize presentations again? Should we
have some grand project to work on, whether that be software,
hardware, community service, classes, something for Penguicon?<br>
> <br>
> Do we need fewer meetings, such as twice a month? Once a
month?<br>
> <br>
> Do we need to publicize our meetings more widely, and try
to recruit new members?<br>
> <br>
> Do we need to have meetings on another night of the week?
Saturday meetings? We've tried Saturdays in the past without
much luck, but if that's what people would like now....<br>
> <br>
> Do we need a different venue? If so, is it just because
of the geographic location, or do we need someplace more quiet
or somehow better able to conduct presentations? Or do we
need to go to a bar occasionally?<br>
> <br>
> Please let's have some ideas to increase attendance. I
don't want the group to die out. Where else am I going to
wear all my Linux and FOSS t-shirts?<br>
> -- <br>
> <br>
> Chick<br>
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