[ANNOUNCE][F] AFPCam 5ish -- AFPBirthday 1.0 alpha release
Andy Fawcett
[I've announced this as coming from me, since Peter is without access at
the moment. I'll forward any replies to him later in the year. Also,
I've fixed the line-lengths. --Tap]
Following on from the tumult of the last AFPCam, there will be another
on the 24th of October; which I hope will be at least as successful.
But this is a Meet with a Difference.....
It is a BIRTHDAY meet! <shock, horror>
The celebration in question is... well, sort of generic really.
It's my 21st on Hallowe'en
It's also Vicci's birthday on Hallowe'en
And the brithday of the One True Relative is around the same time.
And Loriba's birthday,
And a couple of anniversaries.
And other causes for celebration, not the least of which is
"Just because".
So, it falls upon your humble servant to organdise you into turning up
for a sort of unified celebration.
Place: Cambridge
Pub: The Castle [1]
Time: I'll be there from 6pm
Clothes: Yes
There are places to park in central Cambridge, within a few minutes'
walk of the pub.
About food: It has been suggested that the proliferation of cc-things
at the last meet might not go down too well at the Castle, since it
serves its own (quite good) food --- the Plan (such as it is) is for
those who want to eat to just order pub food as and when. I doubt
they'd object if someone were to bring along a birthday cake; but
there may well be trouble if *everybody does*
So, as I see it, the best way is for anyone thinking to supply a cake
to email me; and I can then sort out who should bring what so as not
to antagonise the Castle.
Apart from birthday cakes, it's probably best if people don't bring
other foodstuffs -- so this means the chocolate-coated marrows,
humourous turnips etc. will have to wait until some other time, some
other place :)
I'll reannounce this again in about a month or so -- my hope is that
by announcing this far in advance, then people can actually plan it
into their diaries instead of scrambling at the last minute -- with
luck we'll get even more people than last time (maybe even some of the
London lot or some miscellaneous foreigners will be able to come, who
knows?)
Full details of how to get to the place [1] will have to wait until
the reannounce, since I can't check them at the moment, since I'm not
back at College till next term. This also means I don't have Usenet
or email access at the moment, so if you're terminally confused about
this meet; DON'T PANIC -- all will be revealed at the start of next
term in about a month or so...
(I'm typing this in a rather expensive cybercafe in Glastonbury, so if
the line length on this is all screwy and the URLs broken, bear in
mind I'm working on Nutscrape 2 on a chiffy old Mac, neither of which
I've ever had the misfortune to use before...)
See you all then!
Peter Ellis
[1] http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/areamap.gif
shows some parking places, and
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk:80/users/dlg10/pubs/
should have some information about the Castle somewhere...
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