[muglo] Re: meeting on for Thursday

I am juggling several projects at the moment, so=20
I can only say I will try to make it.

I couldn't make the March meeting because my=20
93-year old father had gone into hospital and=20
died two days later.

I think Landon is a great spot.  I've been to=20
quite a few functions there over the years.  My=20
only caution is if you're not from the area to be=20
aware of the one way streets.  If memory serves=20
me correctly, the street beside the library=20
parking lot is one way (Bruce, I think).  If=20
you're going south on Wortley Road, the best=20
route is to go west on Elmwood, which is also one=20
way, and then go back over to Bruce.

There are quite a few nice places to shop and eat=20
around there, as it's right in the middle of=20
Wortley Village.

Leith

>   On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:14 AM, roy hanson wrote:
>>  approx how many muglo's come out to meetings?
>>  and what is talked about.
>>  And when are the meetings.
>
>
>To answer the questions in reverse order, Roy (and by the way, welcome
>to the group), the meetings are whenever anyone gets around to
>organizing them. The last one was in March; since then, we've just had
>sporadic exchanges online. However, there's a real meeting next
>Thursday, June 21, from 7:00 till 8:30 p.m., in the OSCO Community Room
>at the Fred Landon Library branch, 196 Wortley Rd. I just organized it.
>
>What's talked about? Whatever anyone wants to talk about. The March
>meeting, I understand (I wasn't here then), included a presentation on
>how to set up a personal Web site (I wish I HAD been here). Next
>Thursday's is mainly about meeting other members (Ipersonally I've met
>only a few) and reinforcing the impression that this IS a group (there
>are numerous other recent members too, and online really hardly cuts it
>when you don't know the people you're online with.
>
>Apart from that, I'll have an  Internet-ready laptop set up, loaded
>with Web browsers, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, OmniPage, Graphic
>Converter, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, Google Earth,
>SuperDuper!, even AppleWorks for heaven's sake, and any Mac novice who
>wants to learn the basics of any of them is welcome to crowd around,
>see what's what and try them out. With any luck, a few Mac veterans
>more proficient than me in some of these will take us beyond the
>basics. (I've been at it for a couple of decades now, but the stuff
>I've still to learn would fill an encyclopedia.)
>
>Hah! And the first question: approximately how many muglo's come out to
>meetings? Well, we'll see.
>
>Here's the deal. No one on the executive has had time to put a June
>meeting together, but as past president Paul Thomas pointed out in a
>March e-mail, =93our Constitution still permits SIGs [(special-interest
>groups), and] if a group of people want to form such a group this can
>be done if they can arrange a meeting place without cost to MUGLO.=94
>Okay, I've booked and paid for the OSCO Communithy Room at the Landon
>library branch myself, so there's no cost to MUGLO. If other members
>show up, we're a special-interest group -- our special interest in this
>case being the holding of at least a few face-to-face interactive
>meetings a year at which we can share information, expertise and
>friendship. If nobody appears, no sweat; I'll have a quiet room to
>myself for an hour and a half, in which to chip away at a few more
>mysteries of Photoshop.
>
>Why this? Because nobody else is doing it.
>
>Why the Landon library? Because it's one of four branches that are
>relatively central (Central, Crouch, and Carson being the others), so
>accessibility is about the same for any member. Also, it has the least
>expensive decent-sized meeting room. Twenty-five bucks for a room that
>can accommodate 35 people? Can't beat that. If I'm out to lunch on this
>and nobody shows, I'm out of pocket for less money than I could blow in
>a bar in half an hour. If a dozen members come and are willing to kick
>in two bucks apiece, it would cover expenses and leave a few dollars
>over to donate to the library. Couldn't ask for a better cause.
>
>Why next Thursday? It has to be some time. Some members won't be able
>to make it on a Thursday. Some won't be able to make it no matter what
>day of the week is named. There was no point in calling for suggestions
>and a vote; look how many people have replied to the call to nominate a
>new executive or re-elect the incumbents. Is that a quorum?
>
>Well, let's try it. The Landon branch, again, is at 196 Wortley Rd.,
>just south of Bruce Street in Wortley Village. We've got from 7:00 till
>8:30 (they're open till 9, but like to have users packed and ready to
>go by then). Bring a laptop if you've got one.
>
>Bring your camera, too, if you like. Larry Kryski did us a favour by
>taking pictures of most of the people at the last meeting and putting
>them on line to help members get to know one another. It's an example
>worth following up.
>
>See you there, I hope.
>
>Doug Bale
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