[HLUG] Suggestions for LUG Meeting Place for Workshops etc ?

[Tim Spivey]

My work has a hire able conference room for 20 ish people, it has a big
screen tv connected via VGA (D-Sub) to a laptop for demos etc.  The
downside is that it is £21 an hour which is probably a bit much for us.
 The upside is it is part of the Blind College so the wifi is 19megabit!
On 19 Mar 2013 08:04, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> Its nice to see so many members coming along to our monthly meetings.
> Although the Courtyard is a good option in many respects, ie central, close
> to town/city centre, accessible, food/drink available, free etc its one big
> drawback is that there isn't anywhere to plug in and have a quieter space
> to put of a demo or presentation.
>
>
> Sarah has come up with a number of possible venues, of which there are many
> and various, but on the most part there is a charge of approx £8 per hour
> for the room for the group.
>
> We previously went down this route of hiring a hall, but due to various
> reasons it didn't quite work out.
>
> So a couple of questions :-
>
> *1) Ideas for a suitable venue*
>
> Criteria:
>
>    - Needs to be ideally in a town or Hereford City Centre, we';re not
>    averse to meeting outside of Hereford if a good place comes up
>    - Food and drink at the venue or very close is always popular
>    - Car parking close by and ideally close to bus/train station
>    - Would need to be a separate meeting space, where we can setup
>    projector, have mains power ideally
>    - Accessibility ideally
>    - Free ?
>
>
> *2) Would you mind paying to attend some meetings ?*
>
> Most good meeting venues are charged, and if we get enough people along the
> costs to each person coming along isnt great. However, if numbers go down
> you get a problem, where the less come along, the more that people who do
> come along end up paying each ...
> But we should be at least keen to consider this option, if no good 'free'
> venues come up
>
> We have met previously in pubs, community rooms with IT support, Hereford
> 6th form college, and even an airfield cafe once (!), so there are lots of
> places out there to think about.
>
> I must stress that we won't be leaving the Courtyard; for a social 'chatty'
> meeting area its absolutely fine, but the plan is to have more meetings
> where we can put on demos/workshops to the group, presentations etc even to
> other groups in the County about FOSS. Ideas have included Owncloud,
> Virtual Machines, DTP Open Source software, Open street map etc, etc
>
> So please come forth with any ideas here, on the two questions above - if
> you have a venue you are linked with (ie work, etc) that we can attend for
> free (or paid), all the better.
>
> Julian
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