How You Can Help the Tel Aviv Open Source Club

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 16 Feb:
> >
> > 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.

Well, I can tell you that my favorite channel for event updates these
days is an ical subscription to my Google Calendar. that way I can see
it in my calendar, get a (free!) SMS reminder before the event and/or an
Email to remind me a few hours or days before it (no need for mailing
list) or as RSS (no need for you to feed me).

However, since Google is starting to irk me lately, that may change in
favor of T-bird+lightning (I haven't tested how it handles ical
subscriptions)

I'm not on FB and won't be on it for the near future, so that's
not a good option for advertising to me.

> requiring people to RSVP probably won't work.

Can't require, but you can always ask, so see if ANYONE is intending to
come.  if more than 5 reply, you know you are good. if none reply you
may still get 5-10 people showing up, but you will know when you can
lower expectations (and buy less cookies)

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

Now you know how I felt back in 2000...


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