Re: [PLUG] In-person meetings

[John Karr via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

The social aspect of in person meetings is important to me. I get to be on remote meetings at work (since I haven't worked in person since covid). After a few during the lockdown period I have not been to a PLUG virtual meeting.

It would be worth looking at meeting attendance now and before covid in determining the value of attempting to resume live meetings.

If meetings are virtual, location no longer matters at all, why not start combining LUGs by timezone and language groupings. Certainly it makes no more sense to have Central North and West meetings.

On 11/23/22 20:00, JP Vossen via plug wrote:

> Subject
>       line changed.
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>       On 11/23/22 03:04 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
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> > Our last in-person PLUG meeting was March
> >         4, 2020. It's not clear when
> >         
> >         or if we'll be able to return to either of our former venues, so
> >         in
> >         
> >         all likelihood we'll continue to be online for the foreseeable
> >         future.
> >         
> >       
>       
>       +1 for virtual meetings.
>       
>       
>       While I see the point about in-person and face-to-face and all
>       that, I have to say I love the convenience of the virtual
>       meetings.  Less gas, miles, and time as well.  I also like the
>       ability to see the slides on my monitor, because I can see that
>       better than a projector.
>       
>       
>       Related, virtual meetings remove geographical issues, and since
>       we're having a really hard time finding speakers anyway, maybe
>       it's time to merge the "North" and "West" meetings?  I don't have
>       a strong opinion, just throwing that out there to the (single,
>       non-geographical) list. :-)
>       
>       
>       Later,
>       
>       JP
>       
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