From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 08:32:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31B816A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta6.adelphia.net (mta6.adelphia.net [68.168.78.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC45043FDF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta6.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030828153223.QYW18217.mta6.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:32:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4E2085.2020400@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:32:21 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hamell, Rick (LMCO)" References: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F402@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> In-Reply-To: <40A58436474AC645BEB609B65CB07CD705F402@beavertn-svr-22.nike.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:32:24 -0000 Hamell, Rick (LMCO) wrote: > >That doesn't sound too unfair. I mean, the venues get extra > business >from the deal, sounds fair that they should foot the bill. > > That they do. Unluckily, of the two places locally that have done > that, one is WAY over priced and gets ticked off when we're there past 9pm. > > And the other one will gladly stay open but only serves coffe and a > few premade sandwichs. > > So in normal situations I'd vote with my money and go somewhere > else. But we're stuck going to one or the other of these places because > they're paying and they continually come up on the voting list, plus the > votes get weighed in their favor. One of things we've started doing is > voting ahead of time for better places, but still using the meetup to get > new memebers. Have you tried talking to the owner/manager of some places that you would like to go to try to convince them to joing the meetup service? Just a thought, it's what I would do if I were in your sit. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com