Ah, where is the meeting? I didn't get a newsletter. With all that preface, I thought sure you'd throw in an address. :) I was all excited. I've never been to a meeting and I am ready to have a box and I want to meet some of the cool people I've been reading here on the list and.... ...no location... where is it? :) c. Cindy Fox Computer Training Solutions www.cindyfox.com (602) 692-8923 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:25 AM Subject: New Meeting Location... > You are about to receive the June Newsletter. In it will be detailed > our new second thursday meeting location. The purpose of this email > is to send a simple message "DON'T PANIC!" > > "Back in the old days..." PLUG didn't have a consistant meeting place > and arguments ensued monthly as to where to have a meeting. Noone > could agree. This was most annoying to me when I'd want to go to a > meeting, but the location wouldn't be decided until say, an hour > before the meeting and then I couldn't make it. As a result, I > stepped forward and said "We will be having regular meetings at the BG > Club of Scottsdale. You can choose to join us if you'd like, or not > if you don't." This has shown itself to be very successful. > > YOU MAY NOT BE HAPPY WITH THE LOCATION. We all realize this. Phoenix > is a big place. It is physically impossible to find a single meeting > location that suits EVERYONE. I know for certain that there will be > several regulars who will not be able to come to this meeting because > of it's location. It's simply too far. I'm sorry if you are one of > those people. > > WHY was this location chosen? Well, it gets us a projector. We have > a consistant time and place EVERY month. We have lots of room to > grow. We have a T1 to the internet. And it's run by 2 great guys who > happen to be PLUG members (Brian and Polt! Thank you guys!!!!). > > All that having been said, you may be fuming, spitting nails, saying > "What am I supposed to do? I'm not going THERE!" Well, there's > something real simple you can do... start your OWN meeting near you! > All we ask is that you don't make it on a night which would conflict > with the regular meeting. We really need a west valley meeting. > Noone on the west valley has been willing to coordinate it though. It > doesn't really take alot of work. All you have to do is volunteer to > either ALWAYS show up at the same place every month, or make sure > someone else does. > > So, the point of this email is, the meeting location is changing. > Realize that this may very well be a fairly subjective decision made > by those of us who prefer east-valley meetings. Don't hold it against > us. I will even happily take the brunt of the responsibility here and > say yes, I am biased towards the east valley. Sorry. I have always > said that the best service I can do for PLUG is simply to hold > meetings that I myself enjoy attending and hope that there's others > who will share my enjoyment. Part of my enjoyment means having them > in the east valley. > > (FYI, back in the day, someone did a plot of all the locations of PLUG > members, and they found that the dead center was actually someplace in > Tempe. So you west valley people just need to get more people over > there. ;D) > > Anyone willing to organize west valley meetings, please step forward! > > Jiva DeVoe > Chairman, Phoenix Linux User's Group > -- > Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so > get used to it. > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss