[GLLUG] Meeting

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

I have updated the website with the date - what is the topic?



Paul Donahue extolled:
> Agreed....
> 
> perhaps at the next meeting WHICH IS ON April 24 AT 6PM AT AAI.... :) we should have a discussion in person about thoughts for setting meetings. Whether to keep the variable times that we have done in the past or whether perhaps a more structured method is in mind. I personally try to attend 2600 meetings which are very structured as in "Always the first Friday of every month from 5pm-12am" at various locations around the world." I'm not suggesting we need something *This* structured, however I know personally if it's something that's a constant it is easy to fit into my highly variable schedule. Just some thoughts. Perhaps a vaguely-lengthy discussion is in order to come up with some ideas for both increased popularity/publicity for the club and for meeting structures.
> 
> just my $0.02.... darn, gotta look in the sofa for more :)
> 
> enjoy this nice evening!
>  
> 
> Paul Donahue
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> Michigan State University
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> >>> "Brad Fears" <fearsb@michigan.gov> 04/16/02 01:46PM >>>
> Not entirely -- the methods bother me to.  You see, we can discuss next week's meeting until we turn blue in the face, and I guarantee that people will still post messages next Tuesday, asking if there will be a meeting on Wednesday.  There probably won't be as many this time around as there normally are, due to the high number of "meeting" messages being passed back and forth (they're hard miss), but there will be some.
> 
> IMHO a more "complicated page" would be one of the things this lug needs in order to draw in more subscribers.  Is it so ridiculous to question the current methods in order to assess their effectiveness?  Sure things have worked in the past, but we should also take advantage of technoligical advancements that were not around when the shotgun-like systems were implemented.  
> 
> --Brad Fears
> 
> >>> Brian Hoort <hoortbri@msu.edu> 04/16/02 01:27PM >>>
> $0.02
> 
> It seems to me that the previously-unstated rule underlying calling a 
> meeting is that you must have a location. If I wanted a meeting this 
> Wednesday, I would either have it at my house or find a restaurant with a 
> banquet hall willing to let us use the facilities, etc..
> 
> If I may stab at a guess, it appears what bothers Brad about the current 
> system isn't the method so much as the timing -- that meetings aren't 
> announced week/s in advance. This can be fixed without complicating the 
> webmasters job with a more complicated page, or changing our system -- this 
> is why I (and perhaps others?) suggested that the meeting be next week 
> rather than tomorrow.
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