Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread John C Nash
Complaints about parking and about not being able to access until 7 (so delay setting up), no projector (OCLUG doesn't have one of their own), and then being tossed at 8:45. JN On 03/23/2012 04:51 PM, David O'Neill wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2012 11:18 AM, "Brenda J. Butler"

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Bill Strosberg
On 12-03-23 01:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > "a few extra minutes" In my case, 120 minutes. What's your time worth? > Where is the centroid of this region's population? In particular, > where is the centroid of interested persons without private motor > transportation? Time is the most lim

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Virtual Presence Meetings using Open Source technology

2012-03-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 22/03/12 Jeffrey Taylor said: > Personally, this has limited appeal. I would want to attend meetings to I have no problem with virtual meetings, but I think more useful would be simply recording the meeting talks and making them available for those would could not be present at the time. I r

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Raj
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Frankly, this much confusion over setting up something as simple as a > meeting seems silly. People have enough hassle in their lives without > having to fight over a meeting location for a volunteer group. Best of luck > folks. > Now this

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Frankly, this much confusion over setting up something as simple as a meeting seems silly. People have enough hassle in their lives without having to fight over a meeting location for a volunteer group. Best of luck folks. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Jean-Francois Messier wrote: > As it was

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Jean-Francois Messier
As it was stated previously in this thread, there is no single location that will please everyone. Ottawa-Gatineau is a large area. I think that the closer we are from downtown, the less likely we are to loose participants because of a long distance to travel. At this point,, and it is *my* opini

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Then you alienate people in the east end and centretown. Travelling to Algonquin from Gatineau is going to take me ~1 hour, each way, IF I catch my connections. Heading downtown is 25 minutes at most. That's what not to like. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jon wrote: > On 21-Mar-12 3:23 PM, B

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:28:26AM -0400, Jon wrote: > On 21-Mar-12 3:23 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote: > > I have not attended meetings for years - when the meetings moved from > > the Lees Algonquin campus downtown, it became painful enough to not > > bother. Subsequent moves westward were just as ba

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] web tools for a roster

2012-03-23 Thread Brenda J. Butler
I see you already have some experience with python. That makes django a reasonable choice for you (it's written in python). I agree that django's user auth already does most of what you want (and django is excellent). If you find django too much of a learning curve, you can try one of the smalle

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Jon
On 21-Mar-12 3:23 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote: > I have not attended meetings for years - when the meetings moved from > the Lees Algonquin campus downtown, it became painful enough to not > bother. Subsequent moves westward were just as bad for me. There have > been many meeting topics that were in

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 01:43:47PM -0400, John C Nash wrote: > > Location of meetings is always an issue for OCLUG. I personally would prefer > more central > choice. If folk have ideas, perhaps they could research them and either post > or have ready > for AGM discussion. A bit of history: >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Virtual Presence Meetings using Open Source technology

2012-03-23 Thread Greg
Some years ago a person asked me, "Can you show us how to keep our website attractive and uptodate?". I said, "Find somebody who wants to do it.". That is my specific reaction to several mentions of video recording. However, it applies to almost everything oclug does. In other words, oclug shoul

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Ward
Great discussion so far. Here's my 2 cents: I haven't been out to meetings for some time in part because of the meeting location. As John said, booking a new location is lots of work. When I served on the board I tried and failed to find a good alternate venue. Maybe it's worth revisiting the