[Rustington] Meeting on 12th September

[Jack Cogman]

Frank, 

Thanks for the clarification. I see now why you feel strongly that we should stay at the current venue. £22.50 for a 3 session is a reasonable cost and I doubt if we would find anywhere else much cheaper. Also, I had not realised that you had donated the TV screen. You are quite right - we need to keep it. 

There have been questions asked about whether we want to be a Microsoft, Linux or Android club. I agree with David Arnstein that we should be first and foremost a Linux club. The only reference to Microsoft would a possible monthly meeting to help people move from Microsoft to Linux. 

I am encouraged by the level of discussion there has been already on this topic. Some good ideas have put forward. - It's a pity we did not have this discussion a year ago!  

Jack, 

Current status is that I am still in hospital and have been typing this 'fairly long' message on an iPhone - what a pain!


Sent from my iPhone

On 7 Sep 2012, at 20:41, frank james <fhj1723 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good of you to answer Derek's plea. The hall costs are £22.50 for a 3 hour session and they  look after the 50" TV which I donated to them. The wifi costs  £12.50per month for 15 Gb. We are in the hall because the council are using our room whilst some refurbishing is going on.
> I never suggested a 2 hr session, I was desperate to find a new hall at short notice after the WRVS refused us permission to use a TV as a monitor.
> I do not want to change the venue as I would lose the  TV!
> Frank
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