I'm not sure looking for more attendance at meetings should be a significant goal for GNHLUG.
The reason people go to a meeting is to meet new and different people which (hopefully) share the same interests as you. The number of reasons people do NOT go to a meeting are a lot larger and include items such as family time, gas prices, parking, chores, ... of which we have no control. So either we have to increase the priority of going to a meeting, or lower the priority of people staying away. The former can be done by having higher quality speakers, "famous people", more interesting subjects, more career/job benefits, ... The latter can't really be done. Perhaps we should look at ways of improving our presentations, escalating our speakers (by "creating famous people"), or ... Provide a non-time and non-location dependent way of "meeting". Our mailing list, archives, and wiki are our greatest standing resources. Why don't we capitalize on them and let "meat-space" meetings become more informal. We should increase the capture mechanisms because those meat-space meetings have useful content. Just thinking out loud... --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
