[LA.pm] Fwd: hollywood.pm.org

[Jeff]

While we are discussing this, why don't we first find out each group  
member's location?

Me -- Arcadia

On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Kevin Scaldeferri wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 2:52 AM, Allen Day wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
>>
>>> I find this whole debate to be interesting. As many of you already
>>> know,
>>> Ticketmaster is based out of West Hollywood. One issue that has
>>> repeatedly
>>> come up when discussing using our location as a venue for events is
>>> that
>>> we're not easily accessible. Granted the commuting in-and-out on
>>> surface
>>> streets can be an issue, but I think there is a bigger problem.  
>>> It is
>>> simply
>>> true that LA is big enough that it poses significant obstacles to
>>> people
>>> consistently attending certain events when you have to cross the
>>> entire
>>> length of a city of this size. For instance, I find any event in  
>>> Santa
>>> Monica to be totally inaccessible!
>>
>> I agree with this.  I commute between Culver City and Westwood, and
>> sadly
>> find the Hollywood meetings impossible to attend.  I have yet to
>> attend a
>> Linux Movies meeting after > 4 years of receiving announcements for
>> them.
>>
>
> Personally, I find it a little mindboggling to see one person who  
> works
> in WeHo and can't make it to SM, and another basically vice-versa.  I
> mean, that's what, 5 or 6 miles?  Hardly "the entire length of the
> city".
>
> Do folks realize that people used to come from *Irvine* to attend  
> LAJUG
> meetings in Pasadena?
>
> It starts to sound like the problem is really that people aren't all
> that interested in having a group (or that their interest isn't being
> engaged), rather than that there is a problem with location.
>
> I'm sorry to pick on people, and I hope you don't take it personally,
> but I really think that the root problem isn't where the meetings are
> or aren't located.
>
>
> -kevin
>
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