[ug-discuss] How do you reinvigorate a user group?

[Scott Dickson]

After about  a year and a half, our OSUG in Atlanta is struggling, I 
think.  We have always had a hard time getting the word out, getting 
people to the meetings.  Some of that is geography.  The only place we 
have found for our meetings is the Sun office, which is very 
inconvenient for many folks.  Traffic in Atlanta is very bad and makes 
it nearly impossible to get to our office for an after-hours meeting.

I've been thinking of some ideas and questions and wanted some feedback 
on how to get things going again:

    * How successful have people been with meetings in the afternoon
      rather than the evening?  Maybe a 4-5:30 meeting instead of 7-9PM
      might be better.
    * What about a conference bridge?  If people dial in a few times,
      they might see the value of in-person visits and come.  We did a
      bridge last time in order to include folks from engineering and a
      few distant members used it to good advantage?
    * How do I enlist the enthusiasm of the local SE and service
      communities to drive interest in the people they deal with?
    * How can I get this to move to a member-sustained body rather than
      a Scott-sustained body?
    * What else am I missing?

--SCott
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