[sf-lug] End Monday Evening meetings? Please Discuss

[aaronco36]

jim <jim at well> wrote at [1]
> My health has degraded over the last few
> years, now to the point that evenings out
> require more energy than I have.
>   I have previously been able to get to
> Monday evening meetings and afterward drive
> Bobbie and usually one or two others to their
> homes or bus stops and such. That is now
> difficult for me.
>   Because the Monday evening meetings have
> been lightly attended (Bobbie and one or two
> others, occasionally just Bobbie and me), I
> think it will not do harm that we discontinue
> meetings on Monday evenings. this will help
> me and Bobbie, too.
>   I propose we do so.
>
>  If we continue Monday evening meetings,
> it is likely that I will not be able to be
> there, which means Bobbie will have to take
> the bus home around 8 PM.

1. I also hope that you (Jim) will be able to maintain yourself to be as 
healthy as possible, considering your degradations and loss of energy over 
the last few years.


2. Would also agree with you, Bobbie S, Todd H, and probably others that 
it's probably not worth it to keep the Monday evening SF-LUG meetings 
around any longer, given the various factors you've all previously 
mentioned.

3. Would also float out the idea of extending the First Sunday SF-LUG 
meetings an hour longer. This would effectively mean that Sunday meetings 
could stretch from 11am to 2pm, instead of the current 2-hour 11am to 1pm 
time-limit.

Several advantages of this come to mind:
+ there would more significant time to engage in matters of discussion, 
troubleshooting, projects,...etc.
+ Bobbie S and Jim would still only have to shlep out to Cafe Enchante 
once a month, so little-to-no extra effort would be required to stay at 
the cafe for just that one extra hour
+ there is already precedence for local Linux user groups to meet for more 
than two hours; BALUG meetings (e.g., via Michael P's doubled "Please 
RSVP..." posting at [2]) for which attendees have mentioned can go from 
6:30pm to after 9pm; BerkeleyLUG's meetups (see [3]) which are actually 
_scheduled_ for 12Noon to 3pm twice a month.

Please feel to weigh-in on this third suggestion above.

-Aaron


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References
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/014323.html
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/014303.html
[3]https://berkeleylug.com/meetings/
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