<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Locations....</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hold meetings in Cupertino, and the two guys in Burlingame will claim</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you'd do better to move north.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>Hold them in Redwood City, and the two</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">participants from Morgan Hill will advise going south.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>One way to find</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">out is move and see what happens -- but then you should wait a few</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">months:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>Some former regulars will cease attending, but you'll also</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">slowly pick up people for whom the new location is better.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>(Any move</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">introduces "friction" over the shart term:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>All else being equal, keep</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">changes of venue/time to a minimum.)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In short, it's a muddle, and ultimately has to come down to someone's</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">judgement about which area to serve and what evening or afternoon to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">stake out.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">� </SPAN>In an ideal world, you _would_ be able to survey who our</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">intended constituency are and where they live & work, then pick spots</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and regular times that work for them, but I'm not able to envision</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">offhand any real-world heuristic that approximates that very well.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(If someone else can think of one, though, good!)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A middle ground needs to be found in terms of location.� By being hosted in</DIV><DIV>Cupertino, BayLisa is excluding quite a bit of people. The bay area is the�</DIV><DIV>worst place to drive in. At least in San Francisco we have semi-decent</DIV><DIV>public transportation.. What are the options for Cupertino again, besides</DIV><DIV>asking Steve Jobs for us to catch a ride the next time one of his press</DIV><DIV>conferences coincide with a BayLisa meeting? Honestly, to get to BayLisa</DIV><DIV>is 2.25 hours of driving.� I'm sure it's nice and easy for those who live</DIV><DIV>in sunnyvale, so perhaps it should be SunnyvaleLisa instead?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>