Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

        With regard to Michael's logistical concerns regarding numbers, I
believe that everyone who wants to participate can and should be
accomodated.  There are ways of getting a rough headcount in advance of
these events, and we can probably muster a far-sighted predicition of
who would come to a roundtable by taking an informal poll on this list.  

        As far as beer, I am on record stating that beer is of strategic
importance in the IT industry.  

        As for growing the organization, the Tokyo counterpart to
InterNetWorkers has 3000 people on their list and draw about 800 people
to their monthly events. We could do worse and still be doing great.  

Tom

Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
> Looks like we have the multi-lingual issue covered!
> 
> Great!
> 
> On a more complicated note:
> 
> I don't want to dampen anyone's enthusiasm, but I have some logistical 
> concerns.
> 
> I think we might need to think about the number of people that our 
> roundtable might
> include...
> 
> When I was the point person for the first big dinner we did last January,
> we originally predicted around 30 people. We ended up with around 90
> and had to do some frantic negotiating with Tyler of Tyler's to make sure
> that we would be able to handle the numbers.
> 
> That was with only inviting around 30-35 people. Now this discussion list
> numbers over 60 people and last time I checked "Inet-announce," it had over 
> 150 people.
> And there a lot of people on the "Inet-announce" list that don't come to the
> Internetworkers dinners because they are "content-free."
> 
> My point: we could be looking at a pretty large event here.
> 
> So:
>  * should we try to limit the number of people that might come? (I'd hate 
> to do this --
> ideally, I'd like to post an announcement to "Inet-Announce" about this...)
>  * Can we find a solution that would be able to handle, say, between 20-100 
> people? Then,
> when we have a better idea of size we can nail it down then?
>  * Is it still a roundtable if it has more than 50 people?
>  * Will I be able to drink beer?
>  * ARGHHHH!!!!!
>