On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Elcomb</b> <<a href="mailto:psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/19/07, Chris F.A. Johnson <<a href="mailto:cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org">cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Evan Leibovitch wrote:<br>> > Te argument of lack of specific notice is legitimate in the reasons why
<br>> > TLUG doen't attract a lot of newcomers. However, people who have been<br>> > here for a while ought to be at least aware of the recurring pattern of<br>> > meeting dates/places.<br>><br>> It also doesn't help the rest of us. If *TLUG want to attract
<br>> people, it should make it as easy as possible.<br><br>I'd agree with making it as easy as possible for everyone, new folks<br>and veterans alike.<br><br>Instead of manually writing each notice and mailing it out to
<br>TLUG-Announce a few days ahead of time, why not type the meeting<br>details into a DB and create a small cron-based mailer? If data for<br>the next event isn't filled in, then it could simply notify the person<br>
responsible for the notices.</blockquote><div><br>Even better, since I'm now a big fan of Google Reader, is it possible to set up an RSS feed that makes these announcements? That just gives us more ways to publicize upcoming events.
<br><br>I did a search for feeds using 'GTALUG' yesterday, but came up dry.<br><br></div></div>--<br>Alex Beamish<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>aka talexb