Please have someone remove mike rock from the judyw@gte.net address. he now
has his own and gets dup mail from the slug group
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
Cc: "SLUG Announce List" <slug-announce@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:48 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Tampa Meetings
> As many of you know, we've had some difficulty getting a stable meeting
> place at HCC in the last few months. Although there is some slim chance
> they will allow us to continue to meet there, it's more likely they will
> not. This means that we'll have to find a new meeting place for the
> Tampa meetings, most likely.
>
> I'd like to bring up another point. From what I know, all the other
> people who lead SLUG meetings do so somewhere close to where they live,
> or at least close to where they work. Rob runs NPR meetings and lives in
> the area. Aaron runs St Pete meetings and lives there. Bill lives in
> Brandon and runs the Brandon meetings. Mark runs the Sarasota/Bradenton
> meetings and lives in that area, or at least works down there. On the
> other hand, I live in New Port Richey and work in Clearwater, but run
> both the Dunedin and Tampa meetings.
>
> It's often suggested that we have Tampa meetings at the Tampa library
> downtown. The problem here is that I'm not willing to hassle with
> driving all the way into downtown Tampa late at night, and fight with
> parking just to run meetings down there. Maybe everyone else thinks the
> Tampa library is a great idea, and are willing to go down there. It's
> just that I'm not.
>
> This is your group, so it's really your choice. If you want to continue
> to have Tampa meetings, then someone who lives in Tampa is going to have
> to come up with a Tampa location in which to meet (including the
> library, if that's what you think is best). That's the first thing.
> Until that happens, Tampa meetings are most likely not going to happen.
> The second thing is that, unless you find something I consider "close"
> in Tampa, you're probably going to need to find someone (not me) to run
> those meetings. I'll gladly provide any help or guidance this person
> needs. I'm not the only guy or even the best guy to run meetings. I'm
> sure there's someone who comes to those meetings who would be capable of
> running them. You just have to step up and volunteer.
>
> If something changes with HCC (like they let us meet there) I'll let you
> know. Otherwise, until you folks figure out some other place to meet in
> Tampa, those meetings are suspended. So get creative. Similarly, someone
> needs to step up and volunteer to run Tampa meetings. (Hey, it's not
> that bad-- just ask the five guys who originally volunteered to run
> meetings in their areas. If they can do it, so can you.)
>
> Paul M. Foster
> President
> Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG)
>
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