On Tuesday 31 October 2006 07:34 am, Bob Foxworth wrote:
> Guess I'd best bottom post here :-) I always thought the
> attraction of Tucson's is that we could get a good salad
> there while doing the meeting. The dining fare at most
> libraries leaves a lot to be desired.
Not if you're a carpenter ant!
:-)
> Then the attraction
> of the meeting room is that we don't actually have to sit
> with people who simply showed up to get something
> to eat.
>
> After many months of just going home at 9pm, the Tampa
> Slug (some) people started going to Bennigan's on Dale Mabry
> (it is near Mons Venus, for an instantly recognizable
> locator). They usually are able to set up a table for 10
> or so with some advance notice. But it is too noisy
> for a real meeting. The TBCS Linux SIG met after
> the real meeting at Stake and Shake, but the same
> issues apply. (That SIG has been disbanded, BTW)
The preceding is exactly what we do at GoLUG. We have the meeting at the
library. Then we have the "meeting after the meeting" at a restaraunt
(usually decided by voice vote at the end of the meeting). We stay in the
restaraunt for an hour or so, after which we go to "the meeting after the
meeting after the meeting", which is a bull session in the restaraunt's
parking lot. That last meeting usually starts to fragment around 11:00pm, and
by 12:30 or 1am the last people go home.
This three meeting structure has some advantages, key among them is that
nobody misses a meeting because a tight family budget precludes a meal at a
moderately priced restaraunt. As the sole wagearner in a family of 5, I'm
sometimes in that category. Also, those who want to just come in and get the
formal Linux presentation and then go home can do so, while those wanting the
less structured environment of the "meeting after the meeting", or the
totally entropic "meeting after the meeting after the meeting" can stick
around.
The parking lot meeting is particularly interesting because people form groups
and talk to each other, then the groups break up and reform into other
groups, and so on and so forth, with each person stepping into the group that
he feels is currently having the most interesting conversation. A sociologist
would have a field day.
HTH
SteveT
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