[MLB-WIRELESS] General Meetings

[Nick Selemidis]

Wireless workshop sounds more frindly and will give the community a feeling 
of there is training and sales og wireless equipment.
Nick Selemidis
www.freeit.com.au

"Shaun Lee Clarke" <clarke.shaun.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote in message 
news:f07ta3$1j0$1 at wireless.org.au...
>I also agree that an alternate name for our 'General Meetings' would be
> a good idea. As you say, a meeting sounds formal and boring, and that is
> probably what put me off from attending meetings when I initially became
> interested in Melbourne Wireless.
>
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> Dan Flett wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I want to kick off a discussion about our General Meetings.  I think 
>> we've
>> had some good meetings lately - I'm wondering if people can suggest what
>> we're doing right and what needs improvement?
>>
>> Any comments are welcome, in particular about:
>> * Is the discussion content interesting?  I've been doing some "beginner"
>> talks lately - are the more experienced members happy with this or would 
>> you
>> like to see more advanced stuff in the mix?
>>
>> * Is the format and naming of the "meeting" appropriate?  It has been 
>> billed
>> as a "General Meeting", but I feel that the regular monthly meetings 
>> aren't
>> really formal Meetings as such but are more social and informational
>> gatherings.  We obviously don't  need to have official meetings every 
>> month
>> - we just don't have official business to take care of every month.  And 
>> the
>> word "meeting" to new people may evoke images of official minuted 
>> meetings
>> that don't really represent what our monthly meetings are really about.
>>
>> * How should we announce the meetings?  We are going to start sending out 
>> an
>> automatic monthly reminder email to all registered site users (that 
>> haven't
>> opted out), to give notice of meetings.  Should we send this email a 
>> month,
>> a week, a day before?  Currently we've been averaging a mailing-list-only
>> announcement a week before, and a mass email on the morning of the 
>> meeting.
>>
>> * Anything else we should be or not be doing at our meetings/events?
>>
>> The next meeting / info night is on Friday 11th May, 7pm, Hawthorn Scout
>> Hall
>>
>> Check out http://melbournewireless.org.au/wiki/?Meeting20070511 for more
>> details.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
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