[nflug] Meeting on October 20

[Daniel Magnuszewski]

I am all for holding meetings downtown, as this is easier for me. 

I think its a great idea to align ourselves with ITN. In regards to the dues, I think this is a bad idea. What reason do we need to raise money? Is this to make us seem more "official"? I think that you will need to have complete buy-in from the group for the use of the money, otherwise there will be a lot of disgruntled people who would stop attending. Also, it would be bad if people stopped coming to the meetings due to not having money to pay for dues, or simply not seeing the value in paying. Charging dues seems against the whole Open Source/user group ideal.

Just my thoughts.

-Dan


Richard Hubbard <hubbardr at adelphia.net> wrote: There will be an NFLUG meeting on October 20, 2007.  Location is at ITT 
Technical Institute, 2295 Millersport Hwy Getzville NY 14068. Go in the 
"Student Entrance" Turn Right, and it is in Lab 7.


There is no topic yet for this meeting.  Last time Mark had an excellent 
presentation on Home automation. 

There were some points brought up that may be of interest.

The first is that we initially held the meetings at 1:30 because ITT 
classes got out at 1:00.  Now ITT classes are finishing at 12:30 or 
earlier, and we can probably hold the meeting at 1:00 pm or earlier.  So 
the first question, would 1:00 pm be a better time?

Second (and Mark can fill in more details here) there is an idea in 
affiliating the NFLUG with InfoTech Niagara.  This will potentially do a 
couple of things.  First is boost membership, as people dealing with 
Linux will learn about the LUG.  Plus, Some ITN members will be inclined 
to look at membership in a more career enhancing manner. More 
membership, especially from the professional world can get better 
meetings, more varied presentations, better networking opportunities for 
those people looking to break into the industry (students, pay attention!)

Now the bad news, we will probably need to set up some kind of dues 
schedule, at least for those attending meetings. No, this won't be 
excessive, and there should be things like student memberships, etc. 
That said, there are good things that can come from that, too. Does 
anyone have any comments on this ..
(Note, if you've never attended a meeting, and never have any plans on 
attending a meeting, because you live in Kansas or something, please 
don't flame the list.  Since it won't affect you one way or another, 
there is nothing to be gained except a reputation as an Internet Tough Guy)

Mark was also mentioning holding meetings at his new digs.  Would 
downtown Buffalo be more convenient for people? ITT has been good to us, 
but some people have expressed problems with getting there, especially 
on public transportation.  We won't do this move without plenty of 
warning, and of course, if Mark has changed his mind, that will be 
another issue...:-)

As always, if there is anyone with something new and cool to show, 
please let me know, and we'll revolve the meeting around you.
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