[SWLUG] Meeting on Wednesday 12th June

[hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:32:51AM +0100 or thereabouts, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On 11 Jun, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> > Another thing it suggests is that you specify that meetings are
> > free (except when they're not, obviously) as a lot of people can 
> > otherwise assume that they'll have to pay and it puts them off.
> 
> Thats rather implied by us holding the meetings in public places like
> pubs, bit tricky to charge admission in the middle of a pub.

Not really: plenty of societies hire an upstairs room or a lounge
in a pub. Generally, if you can't guarantee a certain number of
people (who will be buying drinks there), they charge.

Regia had this in Swansea. Roc Soc had this in Aber (slightly 
different circumstances, obviously: we needed to have the DJ 
stuff there). Friends of the Earth had it in Newcastle. (Well,
admittedly that was about 14 years ago, yes :)) 

And there are plenty of societies where you pay to join or stay a
member, even if it's a pound or so a year. We aren't charging
membership fees, and we don't mention that anywhere. 
 
> It would however be worth mentioning for mettings held in a private
> venue i should think.

Nod. It was just a thought anyway.

Telsa