Phares, thanks for the clarifications.

What if speakers were required to confirm at least 7 days before the event is due for planning purposes? This isn't an unreasonable request and it presumably would help with turnout, audio-streaming setup, twitter-chat etc? Any speaker worth his/her salt should be able to RSVP within these limits.

Saidi

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
@Saidi

Meeting reminders are many time's erratic because the speaker's take
some time to confirm, if a speaker does not get back to me in good
time, I cannot send out invites for the same... Given that I had
proposed a date to the speaker, I cannot change on the last minute.
There are instances where speaker's have cancelled 30 minutes to the
event... We owe a lot to them, so I work with their schedules...

There is a list member working on Upgrading the blog and will be
updating it every so often, so that is catered for as well.
Additionally, the last event, the reminder was sent in a week before
:), with a reminder on the specific day. I agree there needs to be
some consistency, but we need spare hands for the reminders :).

On Saturday meetings, I'll confirm if the current venue will be
available for Saturday meetings, if not, we can have some in a
restaurant (this has been done before). The benefit of the Saturday
meetings is that meetings tend to be more relaxed and interactive.
However, my misgiving, as earlier pointed out is that Saturdays tend
to be dedicated to family/social matters...

My two cents...

On 12/3/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not invest in some low-tech solution where people can attend remotely,
> it doesn't at all have to include video, an audio stream (with real-time
> chat for questions etc) is all that is needed.
>
> Secondly, the announcement "system" is poor and inconsistent, sometimes they
> are sent a day before the meeting. If I was in Nairobi I'd prefer a week's
> notice (with a few reminders in between). Instead of relying on a person to
> send the reminders, why not widely available technical solutions: an online
> skunkworks events calendar that people can subscribe to and independently do
> event-tracking.
>
> Why are we "afraid" of technology? Or are the ideas simply lacking a
> champion?
>
> Saidi
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So maybe both sides ... have some weekday and some weekend...
>>
>> Maybe the next event should be a sato mid morning/afternoon?
>> --
>> Josiah Mugambi
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>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The event @ Jacaranda a while had some delicious snacks, but still
>>> attendance was kinda low, which might have been a good thing coz the
>>> helpings were "heftier" :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Barrack Otieno
>>> <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try introducing dinner and see the reaction :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The infamous nyayo jam keeps me away from the tuesday meetings, I would
>>>>> definitely attend on a weekend.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Never attended any coz of location.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ./Ok3ch
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Imelda Mueni <mueni0@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> > Well as long as its weekdays some of us will never attend , cause
>>>>>> personally
>>>>>> > i  work far from town hence a night mare to get to town with traffic
>>>>>> jam and
>>>>>> > everything ,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > u shld reconsider weekends.....
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > thks
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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