[HLUG] Linux audio / video special event venue

[Pete]

  Hi Gang,

Apart from my reservations about trying to get the public to anything 
new in Leominster (which I will now shut up about) I reckon the 
opportunity in mid June is the best option to give us a chance to 
generate some momentum with direct publicity -using the existing 
contacts listings we use to promote SFD and also via social media.

Who is producing this event and is there an etherpad to co-ordinate effort?

MtG
Pete H@

On 27/04/14 22:55, Ann Tether wrote:
> Grange Court is lovely, just a note that the 28/5 is spring bank 
> holiday week, so a lot of people may well be away then. £10ph is very 
> competitive as well for Leominster, and from a personal point of view 
> I could actually get there.. but not on the 28/5. It should be fairly 
> easy to get a free press release in the Leominster Journal as well to 
> see if there are other users locally who haven't found this group yet.
> regards
> ann
>
> On 27/04/14 22:32, Julian Robbins wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I went over to speak to Polly Robinson, (Heritage Development Worker) 
>> at Grange
>> Court <http://www.grangecourt.org/> in Leominster on Friday, about our
>> requirement to hire a room and she was friendly and helpful. Grange 
>> Court
>> is set up as a '*Community, Enterprise, and Heritage Hub. It is free to
>> enter and enables the people of Leominster and visitors to work, play 
>> and
>> learn*' run by the LARC Development Trust. The facilities at Grange 
>> Court
>> as you would expect from a recently National Lottery funded project are
>> extremely good. The prices are also low too as they do a much reduced 
>> rate
>> for community groups.
>>
>> The last event we put on, Ben's Open Street Map workshop last year was
>> attended by 28 people to give an idea of how many we hope to attend, 
>> if we
>> publicise this well.
>>
>> There are two rooms we could hire :-
>>
>>     1. The Education room, which depending on how you set up the seating
>>     will take up to 25-30 people. The room has a large new, wall mounted
>>     flatscreen touchscreen tv (don't know about linux capability 
>> here) which we
>>     can use to work with. The best bit is the room is only £10 per 
>> hour (note
>>     all the other rooms we looked at started at £14 per hour, ie St John
>>     Ambulance and the Kindle Centre in Hereford). The room makes an 
>> excellent
>>     training room as that is it's primary purpose.
>>     2. The John Abel room, this seats up to 60 people is a beautifully
>>     ornate room but is £25 per hour so out of our price range I think.
>>
>> There is free wifi access (approx 8MB/s), kitchen facilities where we 
>> can
>> make teas etc, excellent disabled access (as it's a new alteration to an
>> old building), new lifts etc. disabled car parking right outside, 
>> general
>> parking in Etnam St. next to the Grange, after 6pm. Grange Court is just
>> off the town centre, with Leominster railway station nearby and is a 
>> very
>> short walk to numerous takeaways on Etnam St, should you feel peckish
>> before or after the event. Trains take just 11 mins from Hereford to
>> Leominster and there are about 1-2 trains per hour. in the evening if 
>> you
>> feel like leaving the car behind.
>>
>> Dates available for Education room are 21/5, 28/5, 18/6. Note the 
>> 28/5 is
>> our usual 4th Wednesday of the month, to keep things simple ....    ;-)
>>
>> Therefore I think we should book the room, assuming Charlie can make 
>> one of
>> the available dates above.
>>
>> Just as a note I'm not so keen to use the St John Ambulance Hall in
>> Hereford, as although the room is central, I had lots of niggling issues
>> getting the booking sorted out, access to keys, and the alarm ringing 
>> like
>> a maniac as they supplied the wrong code. Plus the wifi code didnt work
>> either. I think we can do better ..
>>
>> Thoughts, ideas ... ?
>>
>> Julian
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