Michael:
Good input.
How does this modified plan sound for Balug Talk & Announce lists:
1)Announce January meeting with ESR 3 times 2)Use the first announcement to also mention in a side note that there is no Dec meeting... 3)People that RSVP will get an extra final reminder
Schedule of announcements would look something like this:
Week of Dec 9th-15th - First announcement w/ no Dec meeting reminder Week of Jan 6th-12th - Second announcement Jan 14th - 3rd announcement Jan 15th - Reminder to RSVPs only
I like the plan above for the following reasons:
1)Hopefully it will bring BALUG folks out of the woodwork who haven't turned up in a while 2)Reminder to RSVPs will mean we lose far fewer of those who respond to the first announcement in December 3)In retrospect I'm much more concerned about driving attendance in January than I am about announcing "no meeting" for December
-Andrew
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-----Original Message----- From: Michael Paoli [mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:40 PM To: Andrew Fife Cc: balug-admin@lists.balug.org Subject: Re: Announce "No Dec Meeting?"
I was rather planning, probably about a few days or so before the third Tuesday in December, to put out an "announce" item reminding folks that there's no December meeting. We can also use that announcement to promote the January meeting.
Of course we'll want to announce/remind folks about the January meeting in early January ... like about the 2nd or so.
I think if we put out "announce" type items from 3rd Tu in Dec. through about Jan. 1st, may folks will get distracted and forget anway. I'd be inclined to just do a bit before 3rd Tu in Dec., and then nothing again until Jan. 2nd, or a hair later.
Quoting Andrew Fife afife@untangle.com:
Balug Volunteers:
I just received an RSVP for Balug's December meeting. I replied
directly
back to the person explaining that there was not December meeting but encouraging them to attend our January meeting an letting them know
about
a couple other LUGs that are meeting this month.
I think that we should mention on our talk & announce lists that there
is
no meeting this month. Any objections? If not, I'll do this in the
next
day or two.