A round of applause for Emma Jane Hogbin...

[Tom Low-Shang]

Hi all, my first post to this list.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:14:54PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I would like to offer a round of applause for Emma Jane Hogbin
> and her presentation at the June 22nd NewTLUG meeting. I
> gather that the presentation was put together in very short
> order and she pulled it off very well. More to the point (and
> this was pretty sad) was that at the start of the talk there
> were a total of FOUR people in the room (and yes this includes
> Ms. Hogbin). By the end of the meeting the total number of
> people in the room had climbed to 6, all quite sad.

I had planned to attend but a customer asked for my help which
led to my hacking code on an industrial robot till the wee hours
of the morning.  I enjoyed Emma's talk on documentation and knew
that this presentation would be informative as well, so I was
actually looking forward to it, but circumstances dictated
otherwise.

And in case anyone is wondering, the all night programming
session did not involve Linux at all.

> 
> Having done NewTLUG presentations (and one TLUG presentation
> (a LONG time ago)) (arguably not well) before I know it can be
> scary looking at a crowd of a few dozen people, on the other
> hand a "crowd" of just three borders on the insulting.

I have only been going to NewTLUG meetings for about a year but
I have noticed that attendance always seems quite good, so I am
surprised by the poor showing. Perhaps a combination of the
non-technical subject matter, the somewhat inconvenient
location, the lack of free parking, and summer time schedules
caused some people to reconsider attending the meeting.

Tom
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