Hi Andy, Had to change the subject as it was bugging me... Sorry.
> On the subject of international groups, I wonder if anybody > has thought > about integrating the WSG with http://webstandards.meetup.com/ ? We actually started as the Sydney Webstandards Meetup and it only lasted one meeting as there was no way to get a decent venue (ours was in a very noisy pub) or contact the members. It also doesn't allow any freedom of dates. It has the potential of being a good system but is too rigid. You really need to have access to a computer/projector (and hopefully the internet) for demos as well and the Meetup venues would rarely be able to offer this. That said, we keep a presence in the Sydney webstandards.meetup.com site with a link to WSG in the message area. In the members section of the WSG site, you can see how many people are in your area at the bottom of the members homepage ( http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/login_view.cfm ). If you see that there are enough people in your area, then let us know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll (bcc) contact the members in the area and see how much interest is there. Privacy is assured and we'll put you in contact with each other by consent. We'll do our best to help out in setting up a meeting group and Russ and I try to get to the initial meeting if it's in Australia. Doubtful that we could attend a non-Australian meeting, but who knows! I'm well overdue for a jaunt off this island and we're heading into winter again :( Yes it's a bit of work to set it up (depending on how you decide to cater and what access you have to a good venue) but it's well worth the trouble. If anyone has any ideas about spreading the word in the larger cities I'd like to discuss it. If you have a big web event coming up in your area then maybe approaching the organiser to allow some flyers to be distributed to attract enough members for a meeting group. Please email off list on [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss. As for streaming, Macromedia has a product "Breeze" that does this quite well but not being a MM user group I don't think we can get hold of it without great expense. I saw a product launch at the Sydney CFUG using this and it worked quite well. Bandwidth may be an issue though. http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/productinfo/overview/ P ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
