LUG meetings and topics

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> The important thing is consistency.  People drop in without checking
> the -announce list, if they know they can count on it.
> 
I agree with this for the most part.  People set aside time for the
meeting, and they get upset when it is "intermittent".  We suffered from
this with Martha's Exchange, that the room could not be guaranteed until
the week of the meeting, and if they had booked it that week we could
not have the meeting there (and finding a new room that late in the game
was hard).

On the other hand there are times when you can not hold the meeting, and
people SHOULD check.  Weather-related issues put even more
responsibility back on the attendee to check if the meeting will be
held, and the leader to post conditions.

> 
> If we listened to maddog's advice (the allegory of the Scoutmaster in 
> the rocking chair) we'd delegate the speaker, facility,
> communications, 
> etc. tasks effectively and make that nobody-has-any-time problem into
> an 
> everybody-has-five-minutes problem.

Wow, someone actually listened to my babble! :-)

md