My two cents have to do more with activities than with location. I think it would be nice to alternate meetings that include presentations with meetings that are oriented towards software installation/configuring/hacking. Cf. the Silicon Valley LUG site, http://www.svlug.org/ On 11/8/07, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Brian Dunnette wrote: > > > Just a thought: would it be worthwhile to set up some sort of poll to > > see when & where people would like to meet (something more in-depth than > > the "I (love/hate) the current meeting location & time" flamewar that > > seems to have developed)? > > > I like that idea, but I would want the questions to be the right ones. > There seem to be several issues here -- alternating locations, using TIES, > weekend/weekday, is the U any good?, etc. > > My view is this: Someone has suggested that TIES is a good meeting place, > someone else has seconded that, so I think we should look into it. The > guy who recommended TIES clearly has an axe to grind with the U, but I > think we should ignore that and just try to decide if we like TIES as a > meeting place. > > I would suggest that we have a meeting at TIES sometime (unless there is a > good reason not to do so), then have a poll about meeting places once > we've seen TIES. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >