Frankly, this much confusion over setting up something as simple as a meeting seems silly. People have enough hassle in their lives without having to fight over a meeting location for a volunteer group. Best of luck folks. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Jean-Francois Messier <jf [ at ] messier [ dot ] ca>wrote: > As it was stated previously in this thread, there is no single location > that will please everyone. Ottawa-Gatineau is a large area. I think that > the closer we are from downtown, the less likely we are to loose > participants because of a long distance to travel. > > At this point,, and it is *my* opinion, I think we should pick something > that will: > 1- not have expensive costs to OCLUG > 2- be *as available as possible* to a larger number of users > > Another idea, is that we pick locations in different places, sometime > more on the west, sometime more on the east of Ottawa. But I realize > this requires more time and efforts from the board, managing each > meeting location individually. > > JF > --- > Linux: Le droit de choisir > Linux: The right to choose > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] OCLUG AGM - discussing change > From: Jeffrey Taylor <jefe78 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > Date: Fri, March 23, 2012 2:09 pm > To: Jon <je_oclug [ at ] kronos [ dot ] honk [ dot ] org> > Cc: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > Then you alienate people in the east end and centretown. Travelling to > Algonquin from Gatineau is going to take me ~1 hour, each way, IF I > catch > my connections. Heading downtown is 25 minutes at most. That's what not > to > like. > > (...) > > >