Re: move Stammtisch?

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Author: Richard Whitney
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New-Topics: User Locations was Re: move Stammtisch?
Subject: Re: move Stammtisch?
Quoting Kevin Brown <>:

> Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> >
> > --- Richard Whitney <> wrote:
> >
> > From: Richard Whitney <> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:12:43
> > -0700 To: Subject: Re: move
> > Stammtisch?
> >
> > What about something more centralized - say Central and Indian School
> >
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > Even though I live in Tempe, I agree that we need to think of the
> > whole Valley. maybe even rotate the venue?
>
> The stammtisch has always been just a scheduled informal get together of
> users. Nothing stopping people in the other areas of the valley (North,
> South, West, far East) from having their own. Heck, we could have a
> meeting every day of the month, heheh.
>
> The problem with any meeting location is the sheer size of the valley.
> During the earlier years of the plug (before Azoto and the Steering
> Committee) the meetings were held whenever someone asked about one and
> were just impromptu installfests really. I did a survey of the users
> and found from the cross streets that were submitted to me that the
> group really is physically divided into two geographic regions. Users
> were clustered in the East valley and the Northwest valley with huge
> tracts of land between the two clusters.
>
> Given how much the group has grown since then, I would guess that those
> clusters have just gotten more dense and at most had the centers of the
> two clusters shift slightly, but further apart (e.g. NW moved further up
> the I-17 and out towards the 101).
>
> I have no problems redoing that map again with new data if people are
> interested. I wouldn't need more than the major cross streets and zip
> code from users to get it going again.
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