>>FWIW, I have hundreds of my articles and white papers on my website: www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com
>>Tamar
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>Maybe you could record the Philadelphia VFP User Group on video and upload that? Those people who do not want to be on video could opt out and/or be edited out.

First, I'd have to have that capability. (I know my phone has a video recorder, but that's too clumsy for meeting length. No idea whether my notebook does, but again that would be pretty clumsy.) Second, I've have to be able to get video worth watching, which I suspect would actually require a true video camera.

Aside from all that, I put a fair chunk of unbillable time into running this group. When I'm at the meeting, I want to be able to learn from the speaker, not worry about producing video.

And finally, as some others have said, if video is freely available, the incentive to actually come to the meeting is lowered. But without a core group of attendees (and these days, we get 8-12 per meeting), there's no group.

There is value in face to face meetings beyond the technical content. I'm not willing to sacrifice that value.

When I decided to start this group in 2005, I scraped email addresses from the UT (very tedious, because I had to do it one town at a time), and collected up any other lists of people in a wide area around here, sent out an email inviting people to a first meeting, and posted it on every VFP site I could think of. First meeting had a large group, most of whom never came back, but we got enough interest to keep going.

If you'd like to have a group to go to, do the work.

Tamar