How You Can Help the Tel Aviv Open Source Club

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 16 February 2009 13:41:45 Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Shlomi,
>
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Yesterday we held a meeting where Zvi Devir gave his "Windows Refund
> > HOWTO", which was an interesting presentation about a widely-discussed
> > topic, that received a lot of publicity. I publicised this meeting on
> > several mailing lists, as well as on whatsup, linmagazine, and other
> > forums. We also have some feeds, and a Google calendar for the events
> > (also in iCal format) if people wish to subscribe to them exclusively.
> >
> > However, despite all that, only 5-6 people (including the presenter and
> > me) came to hear the talk. The question is why?
>
> Please don't take it so hard. It's just normal artifact of a club
> meeting that requires no RSVP.

Maybe. But I've noticed a gradual dwindling in the number of Telux attendees 
in the past months, and it makes me unhappy.

>
> In Herzelinux we've just had two very interesting lectures, one three
> weeks after the other:  6 people showed up to the first and over 25 to
> the second (we ran out of chairs in the room...). It just depends on a
> bazillion things going on in people's life. Maybe there was a good
> soccer match yesterday :-)

I realise there are fluctuations. But like I said we've been on a negative 
trend.

>
> I'd suggest adding an RSVP option to meetings and only doing the meeting
> if enough people RSVP but I sort of doubt that this will work...

You can already RSVP to the event using Facebook. Not sure how many people 
bother doing that, or are on facebook, etc. And I still would rather have a 
meeting with a small attendance, than no meeting at all. And like you said 
requiring people to RSVP probably won't work.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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