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

[Allen Day]

Or plot yourself here:

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-Allen


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Jeff wrote:

> 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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