[wplug-plan] Trying to reserve HackPittsburgh for WPLUG

[Pat Barron]

Second Saturdays are fine with me too.  And I second that emotion, 
regarding advance notice...  But to get advance notice, we need to more 
aggressively plan in advance.  Some folks may recall that I've been 
agitating for a long time (i.e., you're probably sick of hearing this 
from me...  ;-) ) to have firm event plans at least one event cycle 
ahead of time.  In other words, at the September GUM (just as an 
example), we should *already* have firm plans for what the program for 
the October GUM is going to be.  I know we don't have control over, for 
instance, who is willing to present and when they're available to do so 
- but that's what I think the goal should be.

Since we're not really having an August GUM (because of the picnic), 
this gives us some time to catch up - and we should take advantage of 
it.  I'd really like to see us have completely solid plans for the 
September GUM by mid-August at the latest.

On a slightly related note (since the original thread was about the use 
of Hack Pittsburgh as a meeting venue, and when the venue would be 
available to us), I would like to see us at least think about alternate 
venues for GUMs that are primarily presentation-only. It's a great venue 
for hackfests and demos, but I really don't find the venue to be 
particularly compatible with either giving a presentation, or 
watching/listening to a presentation (and I've done both there...  ;-) 
), which really would be better served by a more comfortable and quiet 
(i.e., no power tools being used during our meetings....) space with 
classroom or auditorium style seating.  Of course, this may depend on 
the presentation itself, and what the presenter's wishes are, but I 
think it's something we should think about.

--Pat.

On 7/27/2015 12:15 AM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> Second Saturdays are fine with me.  I think the main thing to drive 
> attendance is to post advance notice to wplug-announce (~2 weeks ahead).
>
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