Re: [PLUG] In-person meetings

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I also get burned out on remote meetings. We've gradually been
transitioning to mostly in-person at work and it's been great. (It
helps that I work at a university where everyone is required to be
vaccinated, and getting tested has been super easy.)

I think we've been averaging around 10 people at our meetings. More
come when we have a speaker, and probably fewer when we're just
chatting. That's less than we had in-person, but at least at North I
think the free pizza may have helped.

I agree that having 2 virtual meetings a month doesn't make much sense
geographically, but scheduling them is trivial (it's just making a
code for Jitsi). Also it's easier for folks on some days than
others. For instance, we've started up a Wednesday afternoon seminar
series at work that's made it a little rough for me to make the
Wednesday "Central" meetings on time.

As for combining meetings, do you have any suggestions for groups we
could combine with?

Walt

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 05:19:05PM -0500, John Karr via plug wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > On 11/23/22 03:04 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > > 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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