Hoping to organize some get togethers for BSD geeks

[Bill Moran]

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.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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