My two cents have to do more with activities than with location.

I think it would be nice to alternate meetings that include
presentations with meetings that are oriented towards software
installation/configuring/hacking.

Cf. the Silicon Valley LUG site, http://www.svlug.org/

On 11/8/07, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Brian Dunnette wrote:
>
> > Just a thought: would it be worthwhile to set up some sort of poll to
> > see when & where people would like to meet (something more in-depth than
> > the "I (love/hate) the current meeting location & time" flamewar that
> > seems to have developed)?
>
>
> I like that idea, but I would want the questions to be the right ones.
> There seem to be several issues here -- alternating locations, using TIES,
> weekend/weekday, is the U any good?, etc.
>
> My view is this:  Someone has suggested that TIES is a good meeting place,
> someone else has seconded that, so I think we should look into it.  The
> guy who recommended TIES clearly has an axe to grind with the U, but I
> think we should ignore that and just try to decide if we like TIES as a
> meeting place.
>
> I would suggest that we have a meeting at TIES sometime (unless there is a
> good reason not to do so), then have a poll about meeting places once
> we've seen TIES.
>
> Mike
>
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