First Meetup: Tuesday 10th February

[Russ Garrett]

So, the crowd has spoken and the day that we've chosen is Tuesday the 10th
of February. I'm aware this clashes with the Hardware Hacking pubmeet, but
that's when the most people are available according to meetomatic.

Venue is still TBA - we're going to try and find somewhere relatively quiet
so we can get at least some discussing done :)

Cheers,

Russ

[designswarm]

any venue for this yet? i'd send someone along even if i can't make it

A

[Russ Garrett]

We're still not sure - I think we should get somewhere fairly central.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street springs to mind, especially
since they have a lot of spare rooms:

http://tinyurl.com/ar6nq

Anyone else have any suggestions of somewhere that has a quiet room?

Russ

[Adam McGreggor]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:18:39AM +0000, Russ Garrett wrote:
>
> We're still not sure - I think we should get somewhere fairly central.
> Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street springs to mind, especially
> since they have a lot of spare rooms:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ar6nq
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions of somewhere that has a quiet room?

In the past, with a phone call they've let me have -- at no cost -- a
side room or two.

Another one is the Adam & Eve on Petty France (or thereabouts).

--
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no more than theft from the public domain.'' (Andy Mueller-Maguhn)

[zen]

Hey Russ!

Hope you are well. This group sounds like fun!

I have a couple of suggestions for venues ( maybe more ;) )

There is the RampART [ http://therampart.wordpress.com/ ] which used
to have London hack days quite regularly. Its a big space too.

Or there is the George (also in the East end) which is an amazing
venue and I am friends with the owners' son who could also be
interested in this.

I know of other social centres who could host it ... some are a bit
sketchy tho'.

Check em out!

_zen

On Jan 29, 6:40 pm, "Russ Garrett" <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:

[Russ Garrett]

So, we finally have a venue!

When: Tuesday 10th Feb, 7:30pm
Where: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, off Fleet Street (The entrance is a
little way up the incongruously-named Wine Office Court, on the right:
http://tinyurl.com/bkkcmv)

I've managed to secure the "Courtyard Bar" at no cost, but the
previous occupiers might not be out until 7:45pm. Once it's free
they'll put my name on the blackboard outside.

See you there!

Russ

On Jan 29, 6:40 pm, "Russ Garrett" <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:

[Jon Spriggs]

Hi Russ (et. al.),

I'm not going to be able to make it (aside from anything else, I'm an Ex-Londoner now living in Manchester), but one thing I have noticed from the Northern events is that putting the event on http://Upcoming.Yahoo.com (formerly http://upcoming.org) might add some more interested parties.

There's a few people who are on the Northern group Geekup.org that spend a reasonable amount of time in or near London. Would someone be able to produce something resembling a press release, or at least something I can stick on the mailing list to attract people to the meeting?

Regards,
--
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2009/2/6 Russ Garrett <ru...@garrett.co.uk>

[Jon Spriggs]

I meant to add, what I was hoping to see was something like http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1518199/

Thanks!

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2009/2/6 Jon Spriggs <j...@spriggs.org.uk>

[Russ Garrett]

Good idea: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1797371

Russ

[rowan]

I don't mind taking some minutes for this meetup and posting them on
here afterwards.

Would it help to have a simple list on here beforehand with some of
the discussion points?

> >         2009/2/6 Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk>

[Jonty Wareing]

That would be excellent, although we'd like it to be an informal discussion
rather than a formal meeting, so I'm not sure how easy it'll be to take
minutes!

If you'd like to start a list of points we should cover, head over to the
wiki and do it there, then post a link to the page on the list.

Hope to see you all on Tuesday!

--jonty

[Adam McGreggor]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:14:23PM +0000, Jonty Wareing wrote:
>
> That would be excellent, although we'd like it to be an informal discussion
> rather than a formal meeting, so I'm not sure how easy it'll be to take
> minutes!

Record it on phone/other device, and upload the file somewhere?

--
``“That’s another of those irregular verbs, isn’t it?” said Bernard.
“I give confidential briefings, you leak, he is being prosecuted
under section 2a of the official secrets act.”''

[rowan]

If it's an informal discussion I'll just jot down some notes and
publish them.