[HLUG] Linux audio / video special event venue

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Pete

So far it's been me and Charlie. Charlie kindly offered to do a workshop/
presentation and I decided to do some preliminary findings out of where we
can go.  We did discuss this at the last meeting.

So I'm coordinating booking the room and Charlie the Content.

Anyone else who wants to help promote the event via social media,  website
and/or other groups they belong to are encouraged to do so.

I haven't setup an etherpadbutcan do so if we need it.  Never does any
harm.. ;-)

Julian
 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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