[kwlug-disc] Attendance

[Doug Moen]

I find I have dropped out of an increasing number of Zoom groups and favour meeting people in person. Wearing an N95 mask and outdoors when feasible, of course. The old KWLUG meetings, where we could go to a pub, get into side conversations with people, scribble ideas on napkins, etc, were an improvement over the online thing we are using now.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022, at 8:44 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I'm not blaming anybody in particular, and I feel bad if people feel
> pressured to attend when they don't want to. I suspect one person
> unsubscribed because of this. 
>
> I have noticed that our attendance is dropping. I was expecting
> significantly more people for Doug's presentation last month, for
> example. I think partially people are tired of virtual meetings, and
> partially we have not been doing a good job of publicizing the group,
> and partially people are not finding the topics compelling. But I am
> also not sure what to do about these things. I guess I will log into
> Microsoft LinkedIn and put meeting announcements there, but I do not
> know how much more I am personally willing to commit. 
>
> At the same time, people work hard to put these presentations
> together, and low attendance especially  stings when we have
> first-time presenters or guest speakers who are foreign to the group.
>
> - Paul
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 03:48:17PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> I'm sorry I haven't been around for KWLUG. Mondays and Tuesdays are the only
>> days when I can get to Burlington to see my Mom.
>> 
>> This week's presentation seemed particularly interesting, but I'll have to
>> catch it on Mikalai's video...
>> 
>> When life has settled down I'll be back, possibly even with a
>> presentation...
>> 
>> --Bob.
>> 
>> 
>> On 2022-10-03 19:10, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> > 
>> > This is a little impolite to post, but I'll post anyways.
>> > 
>> > Not counting bots and presenters, I think we have seven people at the
>> > meeting now? I am hoping for a few more for our guest speaker Karla,
>> > who is starting now.
>> > 
>> > https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug
>> > 
>> > - Paul
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
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