On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:00:27AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
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> 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.
Actually, that's pretty much how it always worked out at SLUG Tampa
meetings, with the exception of the fact that the location of the
"meeting after the meeting" was predetermined by convention to be
Bennigan's, and at SLUG St. Pete meetings, where the certainty of eating
was about 85% and the location was determined more by ad-hoc consensus
than any kind of formal vote -- at least, while I was attending SLUG
meetings. Since I haven't been in Florida since August 2005, however,
I'm not much of an authority on how things are done there currently.
This is also, incidentally, how NCLUG (local to me now in Northern
Colorado) does it: we have the meeting in a classroom at a college, then
head two or three doors down to the Chinese restaurant for dinner, and
finally have some chatter in the parking lot as people depart. The
parking lot discussion tends to be much shorter than at SLUG, however,
especially as winter draws nigh and temperatures approach, or dip below,
freezing.
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