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Grant Sewell wrote:
Yep, I must admit, I have found that when visiting Plymouth on the odd occasion. I'm sure the Mutley Crown did an offer of meals for £1.On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:20:37 +0000 Rob Beard wrote:edward mccaughan wrote:Just to mix things up a bit, @plymouthgeeks organising a DCLUG meeting in plymouth for chance, largely because we're too lazy to go all the way to paignton. BuuuUUUuuut, I've been to a few LUG meetings, but never organised one before, so first we've got to sort out a few things: * First off, who's coming? it would help to have a vague idea of numbers before we try book out the pavillionsI could possibly make it depending when it is.Seconded. Living just down from Mutley I can make pretty much anywhere in Plymouth quite easily.* second, when? Would people prefer an evening weekday meeting or a weekend daytime meetup? And since there's a meeting in holsbury with no particular date yet and the regular paignton meet on Saturday the 6th, how about vaguely the end of march (eg: the 20th or 28th ish?)Weekend daytime is better for me. At the moment I can probably do the 20th, possibly 28th (I'd have to check what the wife is doing).Either weekday or weekend is good with me, but I imagine weekend is probably more accessible for others.* Most importantly, what are we doing? Do we want to do a vaguely formal meeting with presentations and lots of organisation, or an informal social?Informal socials are always good. Maybe for the first one an informal social would be a better idea unless someone can come up with a presentation and/or talk before the meeting.Maybe starting out with an informal social would be better. I'm fine with doing presentation/talks about something I'm comfortable with (kinda goes along with the territory of being a teacher/lecturer/tutor/whatever).I'm all up for setting a projector up and people doing talks (yes, you, person reading this! We want you to do a talk and teach us cool stuff!), but it requires a bit more organisation and enough people to make it worth the effort.Oh I dunno about doing a talk, although maybe sometime it would be good to do a talk on the happenings at Exwick and the Lighthouse. Another thing I'd like us to maybe do as a group sometime is maybe get together and watch some Linux related movies such as Revolution OS, or maybe Pirates Of Silicon Valley (we can all boo and hiss at Bill G and Steve B).Maybe doing a more formal meet with talks, etc, for another time?Only venues I can think of off the top of my head would be something like the Weatherspoons pub down the road from Toys 'r' Us. Sorry*and of course, where are we going to meet up? This largely depends on what we're doing and how many people are coming, but I'm all ears if anyone can think of a perfect, prefereably free and wifi'd venue (although as long as we get enough people so it only costs acouple of quid each, we could try and find a paid venue)living in Torquay I don't know Plymouth THAT well. I occasionally get e-mails on Facebook about the Mutley Crown, not sure if that's any good, although IIRC it wasn't that far from the city centre.Yeah, there's the various Wetherspoons around. The Mutley Crown is OK too - as for being near the City center... everywhere is! :D
I've sent them an e-mail asking what facilities they have* and if we'd be able to go along one Saturday.
* I've asked about car parking (if they have any, or if there is any near by, best I can think of is walking in from the City Centre or parking on a side road from what I remember about Mutley), if they have any wifi internet, and if they have a family room/or are kids allowed (for those of us who might want to bring our kids along).
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