[muglo] Re: meeting on for Thursday

I would like to make it but I won't be able to make it to London on  
the 21st.
Gerhard


On Jun 14, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Doug Bale wrote:

>   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, ?our 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.?
> 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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