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Can't help but wonder with the amount of hotels in the Torbay area why there is the need to pay for a room hire, for example a while ago on heading home (near Dunkerswell) after one of the meetings at Paignton I called in at the Monkton Court Hotel http://www.monktoncourthotel.co.uk/ on the A30 about a mile East of Honiton. They were glad to offer a room for free and showed me one that would accommodate a group of 12 or maybe more, perhaps free because I pointed out those attending would have drinks and maybe snacks. There would be car parking free too. It may be appropriate here to explain my thinking at the time; I am not aware of many LUG members in this area but would like to encourage others to move over to Ubuntu or any other flavour that interests and considered placing an article in the Upottery 'Parish Pump' to see if some serious interest could be drummed up amongst a few then it may be worth trying to drag some of you capable chaps over this way (we contribute to fuel) to help those interested get started and do installs. It is unlikely people would be up and properly sorted after one session up here and suspect at least 3 would be about right. wochafink! On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 22:00 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > On 06/01/11 21:39, Simon Waters wrote: > > On 06/01/11 18:54, Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 06/01/11 15:22, Paul Sutton wrote: > >>> > >>> 4. they don't have any laptops or computers on site, slightly unrelated > >>> but something we can perhaps help with as a lug. > > > > Do they want any? Surely most just play here. > > > > Please if we think they need technical help, let's start with their website. > > > > Someone could show them how to resize images with gimp, would be a good > > start. First I looked at shrinks by 71% just running pngcrush, and that > > was a lossless transformation. > > > > Sounds good, > > perhaps this is something that someone with the time and technical > knowledge can ask them about, I think it's run by volunteers, as its a > play centre, they are going to be qualified in play work and perhaps use > a simple package to do websites, or the web people come and go, and it > ends up as it is, Again if this IS the situation you end up relying on > one person to update things or fix things. > > My immediate concern is how we will go about paying for this, if we > have collections over the next few meets (sorry i can't organise > fundraising as I am not at the meets) we can at least pay for the first > session. > > if we can invite members of the public in without too many issues like > we had or would have had at Paignton library we can do a presentation > then ask for donations towards room hire, we won't be making a profit > as a lug any money raised will go directly to the venue, i guess, and > any extra over 40 quid goes to the next months room hire. > > Paul > > > -- > > > > Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) > http://www.zleap.net > > > 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq