Thanks Steve, I agree that it would probably be best to have a wide range of different events, including a mix of online and in-person. I'm not 100% on passing out CDs in random areas...but I like the BWW idea. I would like to see some more official events so I will be more motivated to help you all out with specific things, or just get to know everyone more. Dray <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM, swoody <<a href="mailto:swoody@ubuntu.com">swoody@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> At our last Team Meeting, the idea was brought up that we could improve our events quite a bit to appeal to more members, and thus see higher turnouts. Many ideas were brought up, and it would be great to see how people feel about it. Should we orient our events in more of a social nature? Should we have more presentations? Should we really hunker down and focus on getting work done? One of the points I made in the meeting was that you can't please everyone 100% of the time. If we schedule all of our meetings to be geared in one direction or another, you're going to lose the people who were leaning the other way. I think it would be best if we gave our events a wide range of focus, so we can appeal to all people at one point or another. Such as having Jams where a certain topic could be covered, and then the rest of the time is getting down to business. Then we could hold other events, which may be more of a learning experience with presentations and more in-depth information. Then on the other side of the board, there would be events - maybe along the lines of an Install Fest, or Release Party - which would be much more social in nature, and would only focus on hanging out and maybe answering some basic questions here or there. Finally, we could have completely social events, maybe just going out around the city and passing around Ubuntu CDs, or just going to a Buffalo Wild Wings and hanging out. I feel this would give everyone at least *some* events that they would enjoy, and I feel that we would see a higher overall turnout. But that's just my $.02 ;) How do you guys feel? What would you like to see different about our events - or even the Loco in general? For those of you who were at the meeting, please also speak your mind here, so everyone else can hear your side. -- Steve <a href="mailto:swoody@ubuntu.com">swoody@ubuntu.com</a> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div>