[Kc] Reminder: Meeting tonight 7pm at Planet Sub

[Andrew Moore]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:31:07AM -0500, C. Garrett Goebel wrote:
> If anyone else is up for it, I'd like to try having 2 standing
> "social" meetings per month on different days of the week... one near
> KC,MO and another out by I-35/I-435/K10. Where the week of the month
> would not conflict with KCLUG meetings. Using different days of the week
> would help alleviate scheduling conflicts for some people for those
> people who aren't too far away from either location. I think that
> would maximize the number of people who could be involved.

I think that having two meetings per month would mean that we would
get about half as many people in each meeting. I personally am not too
keen on going to biweekly meetings, so I'd just go to every other
one. I'd hate to get essentially two groups: kcmo.pm.org and
kcsouthland.pm.org. That's a bad scenerio.

I would attend monthly meetings if we alternated between KCMO and
suburbia each month or even just moved them to Overland Park for a
while. I don't mind driving out to JCCC or wherever for
meetings. Maybe it's time we Missourians pay our dues like the
SprintLand folks have been doing for ~5 years.

What about someplace like Barley's Brewhouse at about 119 and Quivera?
Free WiFi, beer on tap, tolerable barfood, and surely wouldn't mind if
we scooted a few tables together?

> If there's no standing agenda to the meetings. Then I think people might
> be more likely to make it a regular thing. 

I'll try to be more diligent about indicating anticipated discussion
topics. I recall that when you encouraged book reviews, weekly
puzzles, and stuff like that the attendance was higher and the
discussion stayed more centered around perl.

> If the meeting venues are near
> enough to JCCC and UMKC/Rockhurst... we might eventually pick up some
> spill over interest from the college crowd.

Anyone know any applicable college mailing lists to occasionally
announce to? I think that David is our official college contact or
something.

-A

PS - I will not drive to Lima for meetings!