New Meeting Location?

[Phil Thayer]

More answers...
 
I will make sure that if I am not able to attend somebody will be there to take care of the meeting.  If I make a committment  to do this then I will make sure it icovered when I am not there.  As far as something getting broken then we will deal with that then.  I doubt that we will have this problem.
 
People under 18 are more than welcome in the office.  I see no problem with that.  Kool-aid is fine as long as you don't get too wild with it.  You know how kids react to all that sugar.  :)
 
A rotating schedule wouldn't be such a bad idea if you wanted to.  I have no problem with that.  I just think that the idea of having a place to meet with easy parking, plenty of space and resources that could be used to expand our ability to try different things would be a good idea.
 
To be perfectly honest with everybody my company and I are looking for ways to get more visibility in the KC marketplace.  My boss and I both felt that this would be one of the ways to do this.  We are not looking for a way to have HP Product demo's at the meetings, just a way for the technical people in town to know who we are.  If someone knows us they might be likely to mention us when the company they work for is looking for some kind of hardware.  I am not looking to change the structure of the meetings or what is done in the meetings.  Just a way to make it easier for people to come to the meetings and better facilitation of those meetings.
 
I will not have my feelings hurt if people don't want to use our facility.
 
Phil

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From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org on behalf of Justin Dugger
Sent: Sat 11/10/2007 10:56 PM
To: Jonathan Hutchins
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: New Meeting Location?



On Nov 10, 2007 6:18 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> On Friday 09 November 2007 23:02:52 Billy Crook wrote:
> > Yeah, that's a good point.  You really don't want to shut out the youth.
>
> Yeah, cause, right now the meetings are just CRAWLING with kids, aren't they?

I haven't been to a meeting either. But primarily because it sounded
like the parking was a mess.
You can't declare there isn't a problem with the meeting location to
fix by polling people who
went.  They're already a self selected group.

> 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.

I also don't see the problem with that.  If companies want to sponsor
meetings, it sounds fine to me,
as long as they're not turning the event into a promotional
opportunity for their company.  If the group
is popular / valuable enough to warrant multiple competing bids,
perhaps then one can talk about
perceived neutrality and sponsorship processes.  But for the moment
the choice appears to be
between a location that doesn't appreciate foreign hardware, doesn't
stay open late enough, a
restaurant that wants the group's business.

> Nobody says every meeting from now on has to be there. If there are actually
> people who don't like it, whether they've seen it or not, they don't have to
> come.
>

To put that more constructively:  perhaps a test run is in order?
Maybe hold a meeting at each place
and write down lessons learned.  If people like these each of places
enough perhaps a rotating
schedule could work.

Justin Dugger
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