SPUG: Re: Hosting SPUG meetings (fwd)

[Barry Sharp]

Hey Tim,

I feel I must echo Devin's comments. I also consider myself one
of the 90% as you said who doesn't show up. As they say in the
Real Estate business -- location, location, location. I don't
live out so far as Devin (I'm in the Woodinville area) but it's
still a great hike into downtown Seattle. In fact I/we have an old
chicken barn located within my housing area which we collectively
own/maintain. It has a fireplace, easy seats, a piano, and a kitchen
facility and can easily seat 70-100 people and has sufficient parking
space all around. Anyhows, I hadn't mentioned this before now
because 1. It would cost about $50 per meeting and 2. It's NOT in
Seattle, and 3. I was just plain hesitant about mentioning it.

Could we assume that the 90% *might* show up if the location
was 'right'?

I certainly don't want to start a huge debate on this so
please simply accept my comments in support of what Devin
said so succinctly.

Incidentally, I enjoy reading all the Perl questions/solns as they
crop up over the weeks -- a very good forum in my mind.

Regards...

Barry Sharp
The Boeing Company
Share Service Group
Engineering Operating Systems
P.O. Box 3707 MC 7J-04
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
USA

Tel:   425-865-6411 (USA)
Fax:   425-865-2221 (USA)
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       bxs at sdc.cs.boeing.com (direct)


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> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Devin L. Ganger" <devin at premier1.net>
> To: Tim Maher/CONSULTIX <tim at consultix-inc.com>
> cc: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Re: Hosting SPUG meetings (fwd)
> 
> Pardon the lag on responding to this; it's been a busy week. :)
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote:
> 
> > The following note confirms that we could hold our future meetings at the
> > SpeakEasy cafe, in downtown Seattle.  I figure this would be an extremely
> > popular option for those working in the downtown area, and an extremely
> > unpopular option for everybody else.
> > 
> > So, those (10%) of you on this list who actually attend our meetings,
> > what do you think?  And more importantly, can you offer us another
> > more suitable meeting place, or a suggestion where we could find one?
> 
> Speaking as one of the 90% who doesn't show up (the last one I went to was
> the meeting with Larry Wall), I can state that I haven't been showing up
> precisely because of the locations.  Granted, being up in the
> Monroe/Sultan area, I expect to have to do a bit more driving than the
> rest of y'all, but still, very little these days is worth a trip into
> downtown Seattle.
> 
> Eastside is good.  However, I realize I'm a special case.
> 
> -- 
> Devin L. Ganger, Chief Systems Administrator, Premier1 Internet Services
> One zone to rule them all, one zone to find them
> One zone to bring them all and in the darkness BIND them...
>     motd for mordor.premier1.net, a proposed master nameserver
> 
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