On Nov 10, 2007 6:18 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
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<br>
commercially neutral.</blockquote><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">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
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">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).
<br>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.
<br></div><br>On Nov 11, 2007 7:36 AM, Phil Thayer <<a href="mailto:phil.thayer@vitalsite.com">phil.thayer@vitalsite.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A rotating schedule wouldn't be such a bad idea if you wanted to.</blockquote></div><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>
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