people, people, people. if a lunch hour is all people can do then thats the best time for one. If more people can come in the evening, then evening sounds good as well. Nathan, I will be glad to hold one in the evening if you can make it also. Lets see if anyone else in the greater Sacramento area shows interest in coming and what works best for them also as well. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Nathan Haines <<a href="mailto:nhaines@ubuntu.com">nhaines@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:13 -0700, Mr. Andrzejak wrote: > I really have no idea. </div>That's great. I, on the other hand, do have several years of event planning experience. I raised some concerns because with careful planning and some real serious, hard thinking about whether or not running an Ubuntu Hour style event during a weekday lunchtime is feasible, these obstacles can be mitigated. (I'm skeptical that it's really feasible, but objective planning is the first step.) If, however, someone wants to plan an event like this and then pretend that these problems don't exist, I can guarantee that event will be a dismal failure. This is what happens when you plan an event at a restaurant during lunch during the work week. 1. You limit your visitors to the immediate area, eliminating a source of interested, knowledgeable Ubuntu users as well as curious new users who are further out than 5 miles. 2. Of the few people within about 5 miles or so, you eliminate anyone who does not like or cannot eat the food at that establishment for personal, medical, or religious reasons. 3. Your "hour" of time is really limited to 30 or 40 minutes, part of which will be taken up by visitors needing to order and receive food, plus clean up time. 4. The restaurant will be filled with busy people who are rushing to get back to work, and anywhere that is normally crowded can have limited seating. There won't be a lot of room for laptops or demonstrations and the rush to finish a meal mixed with laptops can cause food accidents. 5. If you wanted to coordinate with the restaurant, you can't make a reservation because you don't know how many to expect anyway. I recommend planning events to have easy access and to be during restaurants' off hours (adjacent to busy times is okay) to limit the negative impact on the restaurant. But I suggest that anyone who wants to try it should consider the special concerns that will need to be planned around to improve the chances of a successful event. -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">Nathan Haines <<a href="mailto:nhaines@ubuntu.com">nhaines@ubuntu.com</a>> Ubuntu - <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/</a> -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>