<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">True there aren't any Universities but there are two modern colleges, with students, lecture rooms etc. and who knows maybe even some funding.<br>Roger<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 24/9/08, rnb-request@mailman.lug.org.uk <i><rnb-request@mailman.lug.org.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: rnb-request@mailman.lug.org.uk <rnb-request@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Subject: Rnb Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4<br>To: rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Wednesday, 24 September, 2008, 8:23 PM<br><br><pre>Send Rnb mailing list submissions to<br> rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rnb<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> rnb-request@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><br>You can
reach the person managing the list at<br> rnb-owner@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Rnb digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re Hop Pole as future venue (Roger Frisby)<br> 2. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (Darren Mansell)<br> 3. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (David Goodwin)<br> 4. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (Tom Hayward)<br> 5. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (David Goodwin)<br> 6. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (Tom Hayward)<br> 7. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (Darren Mansell)<br> 8. Re: Re Hop Pole as future venue (David Goodwin)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:45 +0000 (GMT)<br>From: Roger Frisby <rogerfrisby@yahoo.co.uk><br>Subject: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: RNB LUG
<rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <972502.66018.qm@web28003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>I went into the Hop Pole to suss the place out. It appears that the room<br>upstairs is no longer available. (its being let or something) Music is played<br>thurs. to sun. leaving Mon, Tue and Wed. We would be welcome to meet there<br>But...... They have fitted TV's with Setanta sports so if our arranged<br>meeting clashed with a football event....Chaos. Also parking could be a problem.<br><br><br>My view was that while we would be welcome ( and the Beer's OK ) the hop<br>pole is no longer suitable, even just to sit down and talk. Any other Ideas ?<br>Regards Roger. <br><br><br><br> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was
scrubbed...<br>URL:<br>http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/rnb/attachments/20080924/48647f66/attachment-0001.htm<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:41 +0100<br>From: Darren Mansell <darren@vcoc.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: rogerfrisby@yahoo.co.uk, Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG<br> <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <d8367c1ef5a9987cf62c8ec97aca4830@localhost><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:45 +0000 (GMT), Roger Frisby<br><rogerfrisby@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br>> I went into the Hop Pole to suss the place out. It appears that the room<br>> upstairs is no longer available. (its being let or something) Music is<br>> played thurs. to sun. leaving Mon, Tue and Wed. We would be welcome to<br>meet<br>> there But...... They have fitted TV's with Setanta sports so if our<br>> arranged
meeting clashed with a football event....Chaos. Also parking<br>could<br>> be a problem. <br>> <br>> My view was that while we would be welcome ( and the Beer's OK ) the<br>hop<br>> pole is no longer suitable, even just to sit down and talk. Any other<br>Ideas<br>> ? Regards Roger. <br>> <br>> <br><br>I didn't think there was anything wrong with the Golden Cross last time. <br><br>Install parties and other events of course would need somewhere with lots<br>of tables, space and power but thats a completely different thing<br>altogether.<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:34:50 +0100<br>From: David Goodwin <david@codepoets.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: rogerfrisby@yahoo.co.uk, Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG<br> <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <20080924153449.GA5321@codepoets.co.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii<br><br>Roger Frisby wrote :<br>> I went into the Hop Pole to suss the place out. It appears that the room<br>upstairs is no longer available. (its being let or something) Music is played<br>thurs. to sun. leaving Mon, Tue and Wed. We would be welcome to meet there<br>But...... They have fitted TV's with Setanta sports so if our arranged<br>meeting clashed with a football event....Chaos. Also parking could be a problem.<br><br>> <br>> My view was that while we would be welcome ( and the Beer's OK ) the<br>hop pole is no longer suitable, even just to sit down and talk. Any other Ideas<br>? Regards Roger. <br>> <br><br><br>Anyone ever been in the Red Lion?<br><br>David.<br>-- <br>David Goodwin <br><br>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]<br>[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk ]<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:23:29 +0100<br>From: "Tom Hayward"
<nessieliberation@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: "Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG" <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID:<br> <7b7a7ca70809241123g3120b5b3g26af6cd71537f38e@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>2008/9/24 Darren Mansell <darren@vcoc.co.uk>:<br>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:45 +0000 (GMT), Roger Frisby<br>> <rogerfrisby@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br>>> I went into the Hop Pole to suss the place out. It appears that the<br>room<br>>> upstairs is no longer available. (its being let or something) Music is<br>>> played thurs. to sun. leaving Mon, Tue and Wed. We would be welcome to<br>> meet<br>>> there But...... They have fitted TV's with Setanta sports so if<br>our<br>>> arranged meeting clashed with a football event....Chaos. Also parking<br>> could<br>>> be a problem.<br>>><br>>> My view was
that while we would be welcome ( and the Beer's OK )<br>the hop<br>>> pole is no longer suitable, even just to sit down and talk. Any other<br>> Ideas<br>>> ? Regards Roger.<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> I didn't think there was anything wrong with the Golden Cross last<br>time.<br>><br>> Install parties and other events of course would need somewhere with lots<br>> of tables, space and power but thats a completely different thing<br>> altogether.<br>><br><br>whilst you'd be unlikely to get any positive answer judging from my<br>experience, for something like an installfest, asking local<br>schools/community centres just might help. I know a certain school in<br>Bromsgrove quite well, and they ordinarily might not be of much help,<br>but they do value being liked in the community, so might make an<br>effort if asked.<br>Up in York, we've been able to use university rooms for such (helped<br>by organisation by a
uni staff member), but Bromsgrove and Redditch<br>University isn't so large.<br>Just a thought<br>Tom<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:09 +0100<br>From: David Goodwin <david@codepoets.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <20080924183809.GA5529@codepoets.co.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br><snip><br><br>> <br>> whilst you'd be unlikely to get any positive answer judging from my<br>> experience, for something like an installfest, asking local<br>> schools/community centres just might help. I know a certain school in<br>> Bromsgrove quite well, and they ordinarily might not be of much help,<br>> but they do value being liked in the community, so might make an<br>> effort if asked.<br>> Up in York, we've been able to use university
rooms for such (helped<br>> by organisation by a uni staff member), but Bromsgrove and Redditch<br>> University isn't so large.<br>> Just a thought<br>> Tom<br><br>Err.. clearly I missed that road sign - there is no University in<br>Bromsgrove/Redditch :-)<br><br>Kat & I have/had contacts in North BHS, but I'm not sure they'd be<br>of<br>much use. Most 'Installfest' type things would take place on a weekend<br>(I would have thought). Were such an event ever to take place, I'd be<br>tempted to try e.g. the Methodist church (near the Dolphin).<br><br>For e.g. Saturday morning, I would probably offer my company office -<br>but that's in Redditch. (Depends on numbers and my availability etc)<br><br><br>David.<br><br>-- <br>David Goodwin <br><br>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]<br>[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk ]<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:17:11 +0100<br>From: "Tom
Hayward" <nessieliberation@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: "Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG" <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID:<br> <7b7a7ca70809241217w16d53655w438d8e1646b34498@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>2008/9/24 David Goodwin <david@codepoets.co.uk>:<br>> <snip><br>><br>>><br>>> whilst you'd be unlikely to get any positive answer judging from<br>my<br>>> experience, for something like an installfest, asking local<br>>> schools/community centres just might help. I know a certain school in<br>>> Bromsgrove quite well, and they ordinarily might not be of much help,<br>>> but they do value being liked in the community, so might make an<br>>> effort if asked.<br>>> Up in York, we've been able to use university rooms for such<br>(helped<br>>> by organisation by a uni staff member), but
Bromsgrove and Redditch<br>>> University isn't so large.<br>>> Just a thought<br>>> Tom<br>><br>> Err.. clearly I missed that road sign - there is no University in<br>> Bromsgrove/Redditch :-)<br><br>My apology, I must make my sarcasm signs larger next time.<br><br>> Kat & I have/had contacts in North BHS, but I'm not sure<br>they'd be of<br>> much use. Most 'Installfest' type things would take place on a<br>weekend<br>> (I would have thought). Were such an event ever to take place, I'd be<br>> tempted to try e.g. the Methodist church (near the Dolphin).<br>><br>> For e.g. Saturday morning, I would probably offer my company office -<br>> but that's in Redditch. (Depends on numbers and my availability etc)<br>><br>><br>> David.<br>><br>> --<br>> David Goodwin<br>><br>> [ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]<br>> [ http://www.codepoets.co.uk ]<br>><br>>
_______________________________________________<br>> Rnb mailing list<br>> Rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rnb<br>><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:20:35 +0100<br>From: Darren Mansell <darren@vcoc.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <200809242020.36378.darren@vcoc.co.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:38:09 David Goodwin wrote:<br><br>><br>> Kat & I have/had contacts in North BHS, but I'm not sure<br>they'd be of<br>> much use. Most 'Installfest' type things would take place on a<br>weekend<br>> (I would have thought). Were such an event ever to take place, I'd be<br>> tempted to try e.g. the Methodist church (near the Dolphin).<br>><br>> For
e.g. Saturday morning, I would probably offer my company office -<br>> but that's in Redditch. (Depends on numbers and my availability etc)<br>><br>><br>> David.<br><br>I know the warden of St Johns so getting the church hall might be easier.<br><br>I was going to have a word with Finstall First School anyway about if I could <br>help with showing them the educational software available on Linux.<br>-- <br>--<br>Darren Mansell<br><br>GPG A952 C95D D77D 3FEE 5124 DB88 91D8 906F 29DF DE43<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:23:20 +0100<br>From: David Goodwin <david@codepoets.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [Rnb] Re Hop Pole as future venue<br>To: Redditch and Bromsgrove LUG <rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Message-ID: <20080924192319.GA5656@codepoets.co.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>> > Err.. clearly I missed that road sign - there is no University
in<br>> > Bromsgrove/Redditch :-)<br>> <br>> My apology, I must make my sarcasm signs larger next time.<br><br>Sorry, I was being silly. I 'saw' the sarcasm, but decided to be<br>stupid even so. :)<br><br>David<br>-- <br>David Goodwin <br><br>[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]<br>[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk ]<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Rnb mailing list<br>Rnb@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/rnb<br><br><br>End of Rnb Digest, Vol 43, Issue 4<br>**********************************<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>