[GLLUG] What To Do About Low Meeting Attendance?

[Tom McArthur]

My Linux t-shirts only generate "what's Linux?" questions. Or the 
occasional "Are you a MAC guy?"

Regarding the meetings, it is a bit of a drive coming from Jackson. 
That, and being busy with grad school and life in general.

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.

Tom

On 09/05/2014 01:14 PM, frank.dolinar at comcast.net wrote:
> Robert,
>    It's summer and people are traveling and doing other things.
>    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.
>    ...my two cents...
>
> Frank
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Robert Youngs Jr" <ryoungs at liquidweb.com>
> *To: *linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> *Sent: *Friday, September 5, 2014 1:07:37 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [GLLUG] What To Do About Low Meeting Attendance?
>
> 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.
>
> Not seeing anyone was a huge turnoff.
>
> Robert
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Do we need fewer meetings, such as twice a month?  Once a month?
> >
> > Do we need to publicize our meetings more widely, and try to recruit 
> new members?
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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?
> > --
> >
> >                               Chick
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