[HackSoc] Austin, Texas

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:07:41AM -0600, Chris Nystrom wrote:
>Anyone on this list in Austin, Texas? I am interested in starting a 
>Hacking Society in Austin.

Doubtful that there is enough support on this list to spring up a Hacking
Society in Austin.  However, getting one together is easy:

   Pick a day and time and preferably location, and stick to it.  The worst
   thing you can do is to change the day/time/location.  If you have it
   regular, support will grow.  If you change it around, support will
   dwindle.

   Fort Collins and Boulder HS meetings are on the same day of the week as
   the local Linux Users Group meeting, it's just on the remaining days of
   the month.  Tihs works well because people remember that there's always
   something going on that day.  On the other hand, it works poorly because
   the people who can't make the LUG because of other commitments that
   night also can't make Hacking Society.  However, we run at slightly
   different times to reduce this problem.

   Then e-mail your local LUG and other computer users groups and announce
   the meeting.

   Keep it up.  Our first meeting had only 3 or 4 people at it, and one of
   them was my wife.  :-)  However, we've had it regularly since then and
   have had well over 100 different people attend different meetings and
   now usually have around a dozen people show up.

   If you would like a chapter page on the Hacking Society page, or to do
   users and entries and meeting minutes, let me know and I'll set one up
   for you.

Thanks,
Sean
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