Mr. Rathburn makes a good point. Floating locations would be more work but could entice new members. I still like the AT&T location although its a good distance from home but will be attending regardless.
Mike Rathburn <[email protected]> wrote: >We live in the largest city, land area wise, in the US. Selecting a locale >anywhere is going to be time consuming for most. Selecting a locale >anywhere outside of the available 820 square mile area of Jacksonville, I >think, is not necessary and should be discouraged. > >I've also presented in the past the concept of always having a roaming >meeting location. To keep things fresh and entice new membership, we should >be rotating our meeting locations, not settling on a single location for an >indeterminate amount of time. Our locations should roam around the city so >that each district can be represented at least once a year. That includes >the always forgotten and underestimated northside and westsides! I've been >a member for over a decade, and there have only been three meetings that I >can recall that were NOT on the southside or downtown (meetings that I >hosted in my office on the northside). > >I don't believe that we should think we're so blessed that such and such >corporation has so kindly donated their meeting space for us. I think the >opposite - we have some of the most impressive technical brain power this >city has to offer, in addition to several who are decision makers, >indirectly or otherwise or even in the near future, on what technical >services or products to buy. Let's leverage that so that corporations and >organizations (universities inclusive) are standing in line begging to host >the next JaxLUG meeting location and feed us pizzas and sodas and rub our >feet. Our conversations shouldn't be on us 'finding' a location, but rather >us 'choosing' a location. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >Unsubscribe [email protected] >
