[HLUG] Preston as a venue for LUG meeting & CAPS Herefordshire
GRAHAM COLE
grhmc at lavabit.com
Tue Sep 9 18:18:57 UTC 2008
The CAP at Preston on Wye uses a small room and the organiser expects to not
have enough space for us. BUT we could use an adjacent room which holds
about 10 people and we would be able to use the wifi of the CAP. So we can
have our own space but it would cost £8 for the hire. It would have to be a
Wednesday evening.
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Evans" <reactiv8 at hotmail.co.uk>
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:54 PM
Subject: [HLUG] Preston as a venue for LUG meeting & CAPS Herefordshire
>
> Greetings all!With reference to alternative venues for future LUG
> meetings, I'm delighted that the concept of using Herefordshire CAPS
> 'centres' appeals! - Hooray for 'Democracy', especially if we can
> 'circulate' around these centres to share the location of our meetings
> more 'equably'. Meeting in a village hall with all the facilities also
> makes it so much easier for us to discuss and learn together, and show
> Linux to other interested parties! - We could even go as far as installing
> Linux on CAPS laptops too, but in my local CAPS (Lingen), that would
> inevitably meet the 'bureaucracy' of a certain person who shall remain
> nameless - Better still that the CAPS higher administration made a 'policy
> decision' about Linux, and we would be laughing! - Incidentally, The
> Norwegian Government has already ruled in favour of Open Source for all
> government software in future! - As usual the Scandinavians are decades
> ahead of us in Blighty ... Anyway, my father and I are quite happy to meet
> at Pre
> ston-on-Wye next - I see that it is at Grid Reference SO384416, and those
> of us from N-W Herefordshire can reach it avoiding Leominster and
> Hereford, crossing the Wye at Bridge Sollers or Bredwardine. Let's keep
> this one rolling, eh?!Chris.Bridge Sollers> From:
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> > Message: 1> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:08 +0100> From: "Julian
> Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] HLUG Meeting place -
> possible new Venues?> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group.">
> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>> Message-ID:
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> text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"> > > 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 li
> ke 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 fur
> ther 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 t
> hat 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> > >> > > --> > > Herefordshire LUG mailing
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> 16:35:24 +0100 (BST)> From: grhmc at lavabit.com>
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] HLUG Meeting place - possible new Venues?> To:
> "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
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> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1> > 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 volunteer
> s 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 co
> uple of Linux projects in the past, so I might> >> try> >> > contacting
> them too ..> >> >> >> > Julian> >> >> >> > --> >> > Herefordshire LUG
> mailing list> >> > Web: http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk> >> > List:
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire> >> >> >> >
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