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[LUG] Organizing meetings was Re: next meeting

 

John Hansen wrote:
> 
> It seems meetings all take place in that neck of the woods which is a shame.

That'll be because Paul does the work.

Meetings tend to happen where ever anyone organizes them. For those that
put the effort in of finding and booking a venue and publicising, I can
say organizing DCGLUG meetings is usually very rewarding and easy.

Folks will volunteer to give talks on many topics, travels many tens of
miles, and bring almost any equipment you request (hubs, switches,
computers, CDs, CD writers, Debian mirrors(!), Debian developers, kernel
developers, web developers, banners, posters, food, drink, gazebos -
even on request partners and children - although sometimes it takes
several requests and promises that other partners and children will be
there as well - honest - no really they won't all be geeks).

It is just people who find and book venues who are in short supply.

Of course sometimes meetings turn out to be turkeys, and too few people
attend, but these tend to be the exception, and are usually because the
organizer didn't remind folks in timely fashion. Easy to forget that
whilst the meeting you are organizing is in the forefront of your mind,
everyone else is busy thinking about other things.

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