[Sussex] RE: Sussex Digest, Vol 22, Issue 11

[Gareth Ablett]

Mark, all,

> > a- is you office big enough.
> 
> About 16 people would be the max... I'd say that was big enough for a
> LUGMoot based on attendance over recent months.
> 
> We commonly use two rooms for meetings - each will hold about 8 people
> "comfortably seated" or more uncomfortably :-). One is suitable for
laptops
> only, the other for desktop PCs.
> 
> Power / WLAN / Wired network points / Internet access are, of course,
> available...
> 
> #(people fittable into either room) > #(people who can crowd round a
single
> screen)
> 
> At the "Home Automation Open House Demo Day" last year, we had about
20
> people at one point (people came and went throughout the afternoon),
but
> that was a bit crowded, plus by defintion people were all over the
house
> looking at what we'd done HA-wise in different rooms.
> 
> > b- is your office far from Three Bridges station.
> 
> I used to walk up from the station in the summer months. It's about 15
> minutes walk... Certainly, some people walked up from the station at
the HA
> meet and didn't have a problem.
> 
> Alternatively, we can run a "shuttle service" to pick people up from
Three
> Bridges.
> 
> Given that the office doubles as our house, I'm not going to post the
> details to the list - people will need to contact me offlist to get
address
> / directions :-)
> 
> Obviously, coffee / soft drinks can be made available, and if a finger
> buffet is required, we can rustle one up... We have another "no PCs"
room
> where we tend to put food :-)
> 
> I'm not suggesting this is a viable for every LUGMoot, but as a
once-a-year,
> particularly if people are interested in the Home Automation stuff as
a
> "feature use of Technology", then it's possible...
> 

This all sounds interesting but do feel if you only want it as a one off
event then would be better for a more planned event where some of the
more organizing of us can arranged for that moot to be more useful in a
sense of having suitable information ready etc. 

I wouldn't want to opportunity to be wasted on bad organization.



Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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