[EdLUG] In search of a new venue still

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Hi all,

I checked the asking price to get the Codebase room. For the evening, it's
approximately £230 incl AV suite. £215 without. Needless to say, this is
not a viable option.

I intend to meet up with Shehraz this evening, the two places I wanted to
have a look into are Spoon, the cafe on Nicolson street which has a large
space and might be amenable to a bunch of people talking and presenting on
a quieter night ; and the Royal Dick at Summerhall which has a few rooms,
any one of which we could potentially try to reserve for an hour and a
half... enquiry to be made.


@Mark thanks for the vote of support and suggestions ; from my last visit
to Hacklab, their space is near entirely devoted to projects in various
stages so I doubt having more than 3-4 people in a room there would work !
I presume TechCube might look like similar prices as to Codebase ...?

The receptionist at Codebase suggested looking into Aqva by Fountainbridge,
apparently they have an upstairs space that could be suitable and there's
already a meetup or two that convene there she believed.

Cheers

Tai


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On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 23:37, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a recap on the state of things.
>
> Happy new 'ears !
>
>
> Last week's meetup was... not as comfortable as I'd hoped, owing to it
> being a football night, AND the quiz was not put off in the slightest.
>
> It remains that we cannot hope to continue to convene there and enjoy the
> benefits we used to; the staff are quite ready to make it known that we are
> secondary and even tertiary to their preferred activities.
>
> The search for an alternative thus continues.
>
>
>
> +++ Venus on a Thursday
>
> It was suggested that we continue to search for a new venue ourselves in
> person throughout the Thursdays of this month, rather than cause the
> monthly meetup to hop around month-to month.
>
> This week Shehraz and I will be meeting to try and find another place with
> the right atmosphere on a Thursday evening which also would have
> accessibility options and presentation space.
>
> We're also still following up on Edinburgh Uni / Teviot, and Codebase as
> options.
>
>
>
> +++ Type of venue
>
> While brainstorming last week we also thought about reading up on
> alternatives such as libraries (if any stay open to run evening
> events/programmes) and local community centres.
>
> This brings a question back - do we really need the venue to be a pub? A
> few raised hands when we discussed this in person last year indicated that
> there was a preference for this, but I'd like to suggest we reconsider that
> with regards to aligning our activities with talks... we can always move on
> to a nearby pub afterwards.
>
> From Codebase notably, there's the Blue Blazer and The Chanter close by.
>
>
>
> +++ Day of meetup
>
> Finally, we might benefit from re-considering what evenings we want to
> convene altogether.
>
> We tried to move the evening at the Southsider but it turned out they had
> events on every evening which put a stop to that. A change in venue might
> also be well served by a change of evening. First/Second/Third/Fourth
> Mon/Wed/Tues/Thu of the month?
>
>
> +++
>
> I'll have to gather all these thoughts into polls, but there's the lay of
> the land on this front.
>
> We still have Ross scheduled to talk in March, so let's hope we'll have
> found our new home by then..!
>
> Tai
>
>
>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
>
> RHCSA # 170-060-834
> <https://www.redhat.com/rhtapps/services/verify?certId=170-060-834>
>
>
>
>
> I use LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/> , a free,
> Freedom-respecting replacement for MS Office
>
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>
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