Our club is a successful club. We consistently have more than 20 attendees at our meetings. This means members may concentrate on a single assigned task rather than having to do double-duty.

Our club is mature. Approximately 1/2 the club has attained the level of Competent Toast Master (CTM). This has two benefits for a new member. 1) You will hear a wider variety of topics and styles from folks who are working on advanced manuals. 2) You will have experienced evaluators to help improve your speaking.

We meet early, but we overlap the commute hour. You can enjoy our meeting while others sit in traffic - there are fewer cars on the road after 9:04 than earlier.

We have our own meeting room. When you speak, you don't have to contend with restaurant noise or other distractions. Speaking is hard enough for most folks, why complicate the learning process.

We are a public club rather than a company club. This has several advantages.

• We attract people of all ages with a wide range of interests.
• The topics are not narrowly focused.
• When you speak, you don't have to feel that you are competing with your working peers - or worse, worry about embarrassing yourself in front of them.

After the meeting, we have a disorganized social hour at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company. Many folks enjoy this unstructured post mortem.