<html><body> <font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Brint,
We found Mercyhurst and the library to both be excellent locations. Now
that school is back in it may be better to lean that direction vs the
library. Example: the library is very central, but there could be a
considerable group of students who would go to a LUG meeting and check
it out if it was within walking distance. I was a founder of the group,
and the last attempt (long forgotten) of ErieLUG, but work and other
diaper-wearing commitments prevent me from getting too involved. Good
luck, I'm sure we'll be meeting soon. Tom</span><br> <br>Tom's AutoQuote: "You have moved your Mouse, Windows will now Reboot"<br><br></font> <font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br><br>--- <erielug@bekit.net> wrote:<br><br>From: <erielug@bekit.net><br>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:56:02 +0200<br>To: <wplug-erie@wplug.org><br>Subject: [wplug-erie] Welcome all!<br><br><br>Wow - i exected one or two responses, I'm really glad to see this many<br>people still interested! Looks like I will have to move things forward<br>a little faster than I had originally planned (I thought I might need<br>to take some time to recruit people).<br><br>A couple of questions for the group. I have heard that some of these are<br>controversial, but we will try to work things out the best we can.<br><br>1. Would anyone object to moving the mode of communication from this<br>current mailing list to an online forum format? I know that there are<br>quite a few forum apps available that could be fully configurable.<br>Personally, I think mailing lists are great for announcements and<br>one-way communication, but gets to be a pain when there are a lot of<br>responses. The mailing list would still exist for anouncements, but<br>regular communication could be done through a web-based forum.<br><br>2. Would people still consider attending a LUG meeting with no formal<br>presentation? I think that the best thing for our first meeting would<br>be to just get together, introduce ourselves and have a discussion<br>about the LUG, where we would like to see it go, Linux, and other<br>general geeky things. From here I can begin to plan more regular<br>meetings with presentations and the like, but I think an informal<br>get-together would be helpful.<br><br>3. And the question that I'm sure will raise some debate: when/where<br>should meetings be held? I can pretty much work with anything, but<br>would you prefer saturday, sunday, or an evening during weekdays? If<br>there is dissagreement on this, we can try to work out a way rotate the<br>meeting days/times to try to accomidate the most people. As for<br>location, we have heard Mercyhurst, the Library and a bar. The library<br>is more of a central location (and easy to find), Mercyhurst has a good<br>link of technology, and a bar has the happy juice. If there is no<br>overwhelming opinion on this, I will assume to go for the library for<br>now.<br><br>Thank you all for your support - please bare with me as I sort out my<br>schedule to make some extra time for this. Keep spreading the news,<br>ErieLUG is on its way back :)<br><br>-Brint<br><br>Brint E. Kriebel<br>http://bekit.net<br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug-erie mailing list<br>wplug-erie@wplug.org<br>http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug-erie<br></font><br> <br><hr>Get your FREE, LinuxWaves.com Email Now! --> http://www.LinuxWaves.com
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