MerriLUG or Manchester meets planned? + Twitter

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, kenta <kenta at guster.net> wrote:
>  Ideally, we should start with speakers.

  In my personal opinion:

  I suspect efforts should *not* start with speakers.  I think part of
the waning interest in GNHLUG meetings is related to them becoming a
lecture series instead of a *user group*.  Get people together first.
There's nothing keeping anyone from arranging a presentation, but the
focus should be community, not speaking.  If presentations are the
focus, then when there's no speaker, there is less interest.  But if
"just meeting" is the norm, then if there's a speaker, that's just
gravy.

  Plus, I believe simple gatherings of friendly people would be more
useful to Linux newcomers, which is something GNHLUG has been
struggling to attract.  And it's certainly less work for organizers to
just get together with like-minded comrades than it is to organize a
presentation every month.  :)

  I always thought the idea of a Manchester meeting had the benefit of
being fairly centrally located for the southern population centers.
It's convenient to Nashua and Concord, and reasonable for the seacoast
and Monadnock regions.

  That said, I'm all for meetings in Manchester, Nashua, both, or
anywhere else people want to meet.

  Again, the above is my opinion.  Anyone organizing anything is free
to organize whatever they want.  The decisions go to the doers, not
the peanut gallery.

  Alas, I'm way too busy in Real Life(TM) right now to contribute
anything to organizing efforts.

-- Ben