[GLLUG] What To Do About Low Meeting Attendance?

[Richard Houser]

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.

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.

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.

Anyone else think it's worth a survey of where people are coming from?


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Tom McArthur <ThomasMcA at live.com> wrote:

>  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> <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>
> <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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