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

[Allen Day]

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.

-Allen

> 
> I think this talk has some validity so I'm interested in hearing what people
> have to say. I know that there are a few groups that I used to attend on a
> regular basis for which I have become more sporatic because the traffic has
> made it more difficult to work the group meeting into my schedule.
> 
> Todd   
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org 
> > [mailto:losangeles-pm-bounces+tcc=ticketmaster.com at pm.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Kevin Scaldeferri
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:09 PM
> > To: Duong Vu
> > Cc: Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> > Subject: Re: [LA.pm] Fwd: hollywood.pm.org
> > 
> > 
> > On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Duong Vu wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > I personally think LA is too big to be served by one PM.  I 
> > would like 
> > > to go to a LA PM meeting some times  but I often find it too out of 
> > > the way.
> > 
> > 
> > So, organize a meeting in your neck of the woods.
> > 
> > One PM doesn't have to mean one meeting in one place all the time.
> > 
> > Given that the number of people motivated to regularly plan 
> > meetings seems to be close to 0, I can't really see how 
> > splitting the group would help.
> > 
> > 
> > -kevin
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Losangeles-pm mailing list
> > Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm
> > 
> _______________________________________________
> Losangeles-pm mailing list
> Losangeles-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm
>