[HLUG] HLUG Meeting place - possible new Venues?

[Julian Robbins]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:55:52 +0100 (BST), grhmc at lavabit.com said:
> 2 CAPS suit me well: South Wye and Preston on Wye. Oddly enough Preston
> is
> quite accessible from Leominster and NW Herefordshire by small roads
> avoiding the city, though the routes need careful learning. South Wye is
> also the right side of the river for me.
> I'm willing to contact either centre if enough people would actually like
> to meet there. Note that Wednesday is already open for allcomers at
> Preston and could be tried once. Arranging a meet at either place will
> help concentrate people's minds I guess....
> 
> Graham

Hi Graham

I've had a look at some of the webpages describing the Herefordshire
CAPS. Preston is one that stands out as its says :-

'Laptops, Projector & screen available for hire to community groups.'

So its sounds promising. Hopefully we can borrow their hall too !

I suppose one of the main issues is whether these CAPS are available in
the evening. We don't have any specific date/day in the month, so are
flexible. I am waiting on booking the Day Centre this month, in case we
can get setup somewhere for our Sept meeting at a CAP instead.

If you could do some initial digging around at Preston/South Wye (or
others) it would be appreciated. I think they are quite central so worth
contacting if you would be so good to do this for us.

I think it looks like HIT (Herefordshire in Touch) funded and setup
these CAPS, for a project that ended in Late 2007. The idea is that the
CAPS will now be run by volunteers and a steering committee at each
location (Village Halls etc), so I guess the CAPS can, and will be quite
variable in how they would react to us, in terms of manpower,
facilities, etc

There are actually quite a few in the middle of the county, ie Burghill,
South Wye, Canon Pyon, Mansel Lacy, Bodenham. The only down side to
going to a CAP, as far as I see it, is that it may be less accessible
for some LUG members who don't have a car, but i think most do anyway.

The beauty of going to the CAPS, is that we have people manning these
places that will have an interest in IT too, and we can also put on
talks on Linux and leave Linux CD's perhaps, so we're much more in the
realms of the part of society we are reaching out too.

Julian
> 
> > 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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