New Meeting Location?

Phillip Batista febaen at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 09:10:10 CST 2007


Monty J. Harder wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007 6:18 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org 
> <mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org>> wrote:
>
>     You people are fools.  Someone offers you a great place to have
>     the meetings, for free, with excellent facilities, and all you can
>     do is come up with objections without even having seen the place.
>      Oh dear, it's not
>     commercially neutral.
>
>  
> It's not an objection to the specific site, it's a concern about 
> possible problems that could come out of meeting at any commercial 
> location (which you may recall is what we did while there was no 
> downtown library).  Any time a commercial entity hosts a meeting, 
> there's reason to examine the potential ramifications
> One of the people who stopped by the booth at ITEC said he could 
> probably hook us up to have our meetings at Cerner (where he works), 
> but they'd have to work out some technical details for us to have 
> broadband that was isolated from their corporate network for legal 
> reasons (there's a five-letter acronym that starts with H, but I 
> shan't spell it out as there are ladies on the list, and I'm trying to 
> clean up my language). 
> If we started having meetings there, someone in my company might say 
> that I shouldn't be going, since they're considered a competitor, and 
> it could have the appearance of some undefined impropriety.  Meeting 
> at the Public Library helps prevent that sort of thing.
>
> On Nov 11, 2007 7:36 AM, Phil Thayer <phil.thayer at vitalsite.com 
> <mailto:phil.thayer at vitalsite.com>> wrote:
>
>     A rotating schedule wouldn't be such a bad idea if you wanted to.
>
>
> There's a reason we always meet at the same place.  If we decided to 
> do something like have the First Wednesday meeting at the library, and 
> the Third Tuesday meeting at your place, there would be a few people 
> showing up at the other location.
>
> If we were to decide to move to a different location, I'd recommend we 
> announce the effective date of the change (but not map the location 
> until the change were effective; that could confuse people) well in 
> advance on the website.  I just handed out hundreds of cards telling 
> people where we meet NOW, and I'd hate for them to be wrong.
>
> Perhaps if someone could quantify the number of people who aren't 
> going to the Library that would go to the various alternatives being 
> suggested, we'd have a better idea of how that would work out.
>
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Well the easiest way to get around that would be to just have extra 
meetings at the new place, and then gradually stop doing the old place 
as often.


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