So why didn't you attend the last TelFOSS Meeting? (Take 2)

[Herouth Maoz]

If you ask me, then two main reasons:

1. Inconvenient time. 18:00 is not suitable to anybody with a standard job.
2. My interests have shifted somewhat, Linux/free software is no  
longer news to me, so although I actually thought that the subject was  
interesting, I didn't see it as "worth bother".

You see this as a community thing, a chance to meet IRL. Maybe I can  
offer some advice, FWIW. A chance to meet IRL is good when you have a  
pretty active online community, with a sense of familiarity. When you  
have that, you naturally want to meet the people IRL, and then if  
there is a well organized lecture about a subject that is somewhat  
relevant, people might make the effort.

The TA Open source club is not connected to any community in  
particular. In the past few times that I went, a year or two ago, then  
other than Eddy and yourself I didn't know anybody there. I jump on  
every opportunity to meet with the members of the Macintosh forum I  
participate in. I organize monthly meetings for the Japanese forum in  
Tapuz. By the way, for monthly meetings, I consider 10 people a good  
turnout. But of course the Open Source community is supposed to be  
bigger than the Japanese-studying community, so one might expect  
higher turnouts - provided that there was an active, cohesive  
community in the first place.