[DM-MUG] Meetings...

[Victoria L. Herring]

I don't want to seem unduly critical, but it's difficult when lives 
are so busy to make meetings a priority which have no focus, no 
agenda, no reason to be there.  A general meeting occasionally is 
fine, but a program is a good idea since it gives people information 
that allows them to decide whether to go, or not.

It might be a good idea to poll the membership and ask them what 
topics, programs etc. they would like to see and then design the 
meetings around them.  For instance, if there were a program on 
Aperture, then people who wanted help with Word could stay away, but 
people who wanted to know more could decide to attend.  But just 
holding meetings for the sake of meetings, given all the work, groups 
and family responsibilities we have [esp. in summer] means these 
meetings take the lowest priority.
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