[HLUG] HLUG Meeting place - possible new Venues?

[Julian Robbins]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:13:41 +0100, "Paul Maddox"
<paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net> said:
> Julian,
> 
>  Something like this would be a good place, internet (or wifi).
> I'm slightly envious of a friend of mine in Austria who is a member of
> metalab (http://metalab.at/wiki/English).
> 
>  The south wye one seems closest, burghill second. Interestingly the
> Burghill one doesn't seem to have any opening times yet, possibly it's
> not open yet.
> 
> Paul


Nice... I havent heard of anything like Meta lab in our County, but if
anyone knows of anything like it, please tell us !


There's nothing stopping us from having our meetings at different CAP's,
in different locations in the County (ie N, S, E, W) should this idea
work out. 

Julian


> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We've discussed this before, but one of the ways we can get further as a
> > group, and to support ourselves, and others, and events like Software
> > Freedom Day, this year or next is to have a decent meeting venue with
> > *proper* IT facilities .
> >
> > The Day Centre we meet at is friendly, cheap, central has good car
> > parking, but has two notable issues, no spare pc's to play with, and no
> > wifi broadband. The second in this connected world in the biggest problem.
> >
> > Chris Evans' suggestion of the CAP, in Lingen set me thinking .. great
> > idea but wrong location ?
> >
> > There are many other Community Access Points in the County. I found the
> > list of them here:-
> >
> > http://www.myherefordshire.com/communityaccess/locations.aspx
> >
> > Can I suggest before we approach them, if anyone know the operators of
> > */any /*of the CAPS that they get in touch on the list beforehand ?
> > Lingen is a great idea, but I think we need somewhere more
> > central/accessible to start with.
> >
> > Also, I notice that the CAP's were setup by jointly by Herefordshire In
> > Touch whom we did a couple of Linux projects in the past, so I might try
> > contacting them too ..
> >
> > Julian
> >
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