[HLUG] HLUG Meeting place - possible new Venues?

[grhmc at lavabit.com]

I'll make contact with Preston on Wye CAP without prejudice for our
meetings and let you know what happens.

Graham

>
> 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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