Re: Post-meeting places to eat and talk

Thanks Rick,

The idea of announcing in the beginning about the SVLUG, and afterwards is
dinner etc that you wrote is a great idea. I welcome anyone that wants to
make the announcement to do so. I offer the mic to whomever wants to make
any relevant announcements. If no one would like to announce about the
SVLUG dinner etc then I will be glad to do it.

It was unfortunate that Rick couldn't make the first meeting in the new
venue because I know it would have been great for folks to see him there
and to hear him make announcements.

-kevin

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Rick Moen <rick-IyCrq+X4Fdq2oZ/[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Derek Konigsberg ([email protected]):
>
> > I'm not entirely sure anything actually materialized after the meeting
> > last night.
>
> Just a general (and very much not aimed at you) comment:  If nothing
> happened, it's because members didn't step up to the plate.
>
> I'm the guy who sent out the meeting announcement, researched a bunch of
> post-meeting eatery options, and recommended two in particular (Round
> Table Pizza and then La Victoria Taqueria) as seemingly pretty suitable
> and upon late enough.  _But_ I was unable to attend, so it was up to the
> members present to run with it.  Seems like nobody did.
>
> Kevin Dankwardt set up the meeting and provided the new venue.  He says
> (http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers/2017q1/004877.html) he was
> there and it went well enough.  But I wouldn't expect Kevin to do
> everything, just as I got a little tired over the years of people
> expecting me to do everything.
>
> Probably a bunch of you present knew the drill:  There ought to be a few
> welcoming remarks, maybe a call for anyone who has a
> _brief_-and-we-mean-brief announcement to come up and speak, a concise
> reminder that anyone interested in dinner at the end should hang around,
> and then introduce the speaker.
>
> Oh, and, before that, someone ought to say 'Welcome, Meetup.com users.
> Just a reminder:  This is Silicon Valley Linux User Group, and our Web
> server is at www.svlug.org.  Please be welcome and keep coming to our
> monthly meetins, every 1st Wednesday, right here.'
>
> At the end of the talk, someone should thank the speaker, remind the
> audience that this is Silicon Valley User Group with some help and
> participation from our good friends at the Silicon Valley Linux
> Technology Meetup (Kevin's main Meetup), and ask for a show of hands
> about how many are coming to dinner.
>
> Since we're in a new location, it would have been necessary for someone
> to just bloody well _decide_ among the options I listed or whatever
> others, say it'll be (say) Denny's, or Round Table, or La Victoria.
> Get an approximate head count, announce where it is, suggest anyone
> confused follow someone else's car.
>
> Pick up any mess, politely remind people that, as the saying goes, 'You
> don't need to go home but you can't stay here', make sure the door locks
> behind us, reconvene at the restaurant.
>
> I'm betting a whole bunch of attendees knew that general routine, and
> could have faked it nicely -- but I gather nobody did that.  Too bad.
> Maybe people can try to do better in the future.  Or not.
>
>
>
> > The meeting itself seemed to gather a combination of several
> > different groups, with SVLUG not appearing to be the dominant one.
>
> So, here's the thing:  Kevin runs Silicon Valley Linux
> Technology Meetup and uses it to (among other things) promote SVLUG, so
> he tells its members about our events.  He also now runs a Meetup that
> another member originally created, called 'Silicon Valley Linux User
> Group' whose purpose is to be outreach from SVLUG to users of
> Meetup.com's online service.  Kevin kindly updates that
> Meetup.com-specific page based on what we schedule and display on the
> (canonical) www.svlug.org pages.
>
> Kevin's a terrific help and a mainstay of this group.  _However_,
> there's a thing about the Meetup.com culture:  Your typical Meetup.com
> denizen acts like nothing outside Meetup.com is very real.
>
> So, my guess is you encountered a bunch of people saying and believing
> they were at a 'meetup'.  Maybe some thought they were at the Silcion
> Valley Linux Technology Meetup, Maybe others thought they were at the
> Silicon Valley Linux User Group Meetup.  Maybe still others knew it was
> a Meetup of some kind, but they are unclear about which one; they only
> know they saw it listed on Meetup.com and decided to check it out.
>
> We're delighted they find us.  We hope they'll keep coming.  You should,
> IMO, too.
>
>
> > Hopefully next time, assuming its an SVLUG-only meeting, it'll be easier
> > for us to organize something.
>
> 'Us' starts with everyone present.  ;->
>
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