Venues, Times, and peoples' availability

[Russell Garner]

Hi all,

Thanks for joining the group. Setting it up is awfully easy. Now
comes the hard part - getting a goodly number of people to agree to be
in the same vicinity as charming local alcoholic beverages AND the
other people of the group. So here's are some suggestions for
discussion.

I'm thinking mid-week is probably better for most, but please chime in
if not. I'm going to make a starter suggestion of any of these dates
with a mooted start time of 6.30pm:

Wed 17th Feb
Thu 18th Feb
Tue 23rd Feb
Wed 24th Feb

If I can get an idea of how many are available on any of these, I can
get a room booked. If people prefer less formal, we can just agree to
turn up wearing pink carnations, or the geek equivalent (laptop bags
with a "C SPOT RUN" sticker). Leeds venue suggestions include:

- Scarboro Taps (can be crowded but is at least close to the station)
- The Victoria Hotel (helpfully arranged so we don't clash with Agile
Yorkshire, which certain of you may attend - has the advantage of
bookable rooms in case we'd want to)
- The Cross Keys (not too far a walk from the station and has a decent
probability of space upstairs without booking)
- North Bar (suitable for a smallish group only and really only here
because I like the beer)
- any others you feel might be more appropriate

Your thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Russ

[James Gregory]

I'm available for any of those dates and any of those venues; although I am flying to Texas at 8am on the 25th, so maybe drinking on the 24th wouldn't be a great idea (though I can do a coke).

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[Joe Steele]

I can't do the 17th but can do all the other days.  Any of the proposed venues look good, but I'd like to express a strong preference for being able to sit down!

Joe

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Russell Garner <russell...@gmail.com> wrote:

[James Gregory]

Seconded!

[Paul Jenkins]

thirded; release at work on the 16th so for one reason or another will be incapable of standing for several days after anyway

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[Russell Garner]

Ok, well if there are sufficient takers I'll get a booking - under 6 and we can probably just rock up midweek at any of the larger venues.

[Ian Nelson]

Hey Russ et al,

Happy to fall in line with any of those dates.

Cheers
Ian

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[Russell Garner]

On 4 February 2010 13:32, Ian Nelson <ianfn...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Russ et al,

Happy to fall in line with any of those dates.

Hey, we're not issuing armbands or anything!

That's meeting #2.

 

R

[Chris Lekkas]

Any day but Wednesday is fine with me and good food would be nice.

R

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[Alan Christensen]

Either week is good for me.
Preference for Wednesdays; failing that Thursday is good too

[Russell Garner]

Ok, well can't quite please all of the people, evidently, but it's
looking like the 23rd or 24th (Tobin stands a chance of being around
then) - preferably the 23rd because then James can actually drink -
hope Alan can still do this despite it being his third choice day!

If I can get a confirmation of numbers for the 23rd I can ring round
some venues and see if we can reserve some space.

Cheers,

Russell

[James Gregory]

Count me in.

[Tobin Harris]

Hi folks

Great stuff. I'm back on the 23rd, so I'm gonna do my best to get down for beers (and perhaps a smidgen of geek talk). Will be good to hook up with everyone.

Tobin

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[Chris Lekkas]

count me in too

[Neil McLaughlin]

I can do the 23rd.

The Adelphi or Victoria Hotel are both a good venues - the function
room at the Victoria is free and the Adelphi is £10.

There is a .NET slant at Agile Yorkshire this Wednesday
(www.agileyorkshire.org) if anyone is interested in coming along.

Once the alt.net.beers date is finalised I'll stick it up on the AY
mailing list too.

Cheers

Neil

On 9 February 2010 13:52, Chris Lekkas <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
> count me in too
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Tobin Harris
> <tobin...@engineroomapps.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks
>> Great stuff. I'm back on the 23rd, so I'm gonna do my best to get down for
>> beers (and perhaps a smidgen of geek talk). Will be good to hook up with
>> everyone.
>> Tobin

[Ian Nelson]

23rd good for me also.

On 9 Feb 2010 14:52, "Neil McLaughlin" <neilbmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can do the 23rd.

The Adelphi or Victoria Hotel are both a good venues - the function
room at the Victoria is free and the Adelphi is £10.

There is a .NET slant at Agile Yorkshire this Wednesday
(www.agileyorkshire.org) if anyone is interested in coming along.

Once the alt.net.beers date is finalised I'll stick it up on the AY
mailing list too.

Cheers

Neil

On 9 February 2010 13:52, Chris Lekkas <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
> count me in too
>

> On Tue...

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[Alan Christensen]

I'm ok for the 23rd too. 

Quietly hoping for another day of the week in future though :-)

[Russell Garner]

Great news, I'll cast about for an appropriate venue then. And yes, will try to do another day in future, this is all about avoiding the Wed on this occasion ;)

[Chris]

I can do the 23rd but not the 24th as its TW geek night and a few
interesting people will be presenting.

[Russell Garner]

That's cool, 23rd's already decided.  I'll rootle around for a venue this week.

On 13 February 2010 15:01, Chris <pu...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I can do the 23rd but not the 24th as its TW geek night and a few
interesting people will be presenting.