I am not going to be attending as I just moved. To Vancouver so I am joining vanlug But if I may suggest a meeting place the atomic roster on bank it in the middle of the city.
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On 2012-03-25, at 8:48 AM, Paul Belanger <paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Charles MacDonald <cmacd [ at ] zeusprune [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>> On 12-03-23 02:20 PM, Jean-Francois Messier wrote:
>>> As it was stated previously in this thread, there is no single location
>>> that will please everyone. Ottawa-Gatineau is a large area. ......
>>> 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.
>>
>> I should put in my two cents worth as well. To have a physical meeting,
>> requires that there be some folks who are interested enough to overcome
>> whatever barriers are in their way of attending.
>>
> +1
>
> Honestly, I don't really care where the location is. For me, if the
> topic is interesting enough or a GPG key-signing event is going on (I
> have to drive to MTL soon for a Debian key-sign), that is enough
> motivation for me to jump in my car and drive.
>
> My vote, pick the 3 top locations and everybody vote on them.
> Regardless of the winner, I am offering up my services to set up an
> Asterisk box with audio and video conferencing support. Assuming we
> can get access to a VM / bare metal machine to set up it up on.
>
>> Since we are spread out in a city that is so big that we have more cows
>> than people, (thank you Mike Harris) it is likely that no one physical
>> location will be suitable to more than half of the interested folks. It
>> is even more likly when we consider that a lot of the folks who are
>> close to OCLUG are from the Bike all year, use transit, down-town cliff
>> dweller Group, while others are suburban high-tech folks who have so
>> many time commitments that they even get their breakfast in their car.
>>
>> I am a Stittsvillan, and so as far as I am concerned Merivale Road is in
>> the Far East and requires an epic hazard fought journey to visit. :)
>> (which explains my absence at OCLUG since the long ago times when the
>> Legendary Andrew Hutton ran Achilles Net
>>
>> SO LETS TURN THE QUESTION AROUND :)
>>
>> How can we make the meetings worth the effort to attend.
>>
>> Beside socializing, (vital for any organization of this type)
>>
>> {This is not a trivial question, the folks running the Linux Symposium,
>> perhaps the most important Linux even in Canada, are basically asking
>> the same questions.}
>>
>>
>> Are we
>>
>> - Trying to get folks to switch from Windos to Ubuntu?
>> - trying to get our managers to use decent software at work?
>> - Trying to make the world a safe place for Linux (and BSD And ETC>)
>> - Trying to solve our day to day problems
>> - Trying to learn to be a better Programmer
>> - Trying to get skills that will make us more employable.
>> - Tying to prove we have those skills.
>> - Trying to become the worlds best Kernel hacker
>> - Trying to enlist high school and University computer students to
>> become involved in fixing bugs in teh software we use.
>>
>> <That is the list I could think of for potential motivations>
>>
>> Depending on what is the motivation for a given meeting the ideal
>> location may change. Even the economics of holding the meeting may
>> change. If the purpose of the meeting is something that a business
>> owner feels that it would be worthwhile ot support, meeting rooms with
>> coffee and doughnuts will magically appear.
>>
>> As far as places we can meet for free, the continuing clamp down on
>> Public sector budgets has made it much more difficult to get free
>> meeting space. I can recall going to various meetings at places liek
>> NRC on Sussex, and various museums - I suspect that they are all no
>> lobger offered. One club I used to belong to used the Meeting room at
>> the Ottawa Citizen , but again I don't knwo if that is still offered. I
>> suspect that High Schools and community centers are also on a pay as you
>> go bassis.
>>
>> The idea location should have both Transit way access, free parking (or
>> at least not tricky inexpensive pay parking near the venue.) And also
>> Bike pathway availability .
>>
>> BUT depending on teh meeting purpose, a less than Ideal location may
>> still draw out the hard core Geeks, while you may need to do far more to
>> interest casual computer users to switch from the junk that comes on
>> their new computer.
>
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