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On 07/01/11 13:20, Guy Backhouse wrote: > 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! > Sounds good for a mid devon venue, Given I can't personally do anything between now and April can I leave this in your hands, perhaps looking at the dates we have paignton meetings and the north devon meet, that leaves quite a few saturdays (assuming people want to do saturdays for this) to book something. I have quite a few Ubuntu cd's and also appreciate that not everyone on the list supports Ubuntu However my argument is that Ubuntu IS pretty well supported as a community project, and we know there are members who can use it, so support is less of an issue the more local users you have. lets give it a go, There are several of these local mini magazines around so signposting people to the dclug site may also be a good idea, esp if its directly to the events page. I think getting things published in these is pretty easy as they are always looking for content. I would still support the fund raising idea though it does give us that breathing space should we want to do a bigger event, and need the capital to rent somewhere. or simply buy resources e.g blank cd's Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq