New Meeting Location?

[Monty J. Harder]

On Nov 10, 2007 6:18 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <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> 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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