I think "social" meetings come with two major caveats
1) You can't have a beer at Morse Hall. That's obvious, so what I'm really
saying is that venue choices and meeting styles go hand in hand. It can be
hard to have a conversation in a pub or restaurant. That's what made
Martha's so great: private/quiet room with option to have a beer.
2) Limited spare time always makes socials more "optional" than a meeting
where you are saying to yourself, "I'd really like to get the chance to
learn about X" I've gone to many meetings where I already know the subject
just to get another perspective on it.
So, I think meeting topics are a good thing and help GNHLUG. When you can
have a meeting and a post-meeting beer / social I think it works well.
That's what we used to do with BostonPHP. Of course, anyone who has ever
arranged speakers will tell you that it takes a good deal of work to keep a
calendar of speakers lined up (not to mention the preparation by the
speaker).
Greg Rundlett
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> Benjamin Scott writes:
> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Just curious if there will be a meeting on Monday at SLUG? If so, is
> there
> > > a topic or is it more of a round-table meeting?
> >
> > One thing I've been wondering about lately is if the focus on "topic
> > of the month" is actually hurting GNHLUG in the long run.
> >
> > The implicit modus operandi seems to be that we have to have a fancy
> > topic in order to have a meeting. Why should Linux fans have to have
> > a pre-arranged topic to meet? I know nobody thinks we actually *have*
> > to, but nonetheless, meetings without a topic tend to have hugely
> > lower attendance. It seems reasonable to suppose that since "no
> > topic" is unusual, that's treated as reason to skip the meeting, since
> > if the meeting was good it would have a topic.
> >
> > I'm told that in some other LUGs, it's the norm to just gather to
> > help each other and network (people networking, not computer
> > networking).
> >
> > What do others think?
>
> I, for one, welcome the revival of MELBA with a regularly-scheduled
> `topic' of `Linux and Beer--Hooray Linux and Beer'.
>
> Anyone know any good Linux drinking songs?
>
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