Re: Locations of meetings

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:59:21AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> In the past, it's been our policy to try to rotate meetings among
> San Francisco, the South Bay, and the East Bay. I'm not sure it
> makes sense to continue this practice.
>
> Attendence at events in SF for the last 2 years has consistently
> been 3x the attendence of events in other locations.

That's not quite true. Events at Casa Donde have been pretty well
attended, and I think its accessibility to the East Bay people
accounts for a lot of that.

> Further, we have several good venues in San Francisco, and SOMA is
> accessible to BART and Caltrain.
>
> I would like to experiment with having *one* meeting at a location
> in the Deep South Bay (Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc.), but that would
> require having a speaker in that area ... something we've been
> unable (to date) to find.
>
> If we stopped having meetings outside of San Francisco, who on this
> list would be unable to attend SFPUG again?

Let's take this one step at a time by cutting the Peninsula/South Bay
meetings for now.

Cheers,
David.
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