[EdLUG] In search of a new venue still

Thu Jan 10 16:37:24 UTC 2019

I know Akva hosts a drawing / chat meetup on a Monday. 

There's also the garage, it's the upstairs area with doors in BrewDog Lothian road. I don't know if they have a permanent large TV in there but they do have them as that's where they showed the World Cup and are planning to show the 6 Nations rugby in there - it's also a venue for the festival. 

Cheers, 

> On 10 January 2019 at 16:14 Edinburgh Linux Users Group <edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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