-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Executive are having to deal with future meeting locations for our monthly meetings. I will give you all a rundown on how things have worked and what we are looking at.
We have been meeting at SAIT for over a year steady and we had met at SAIT prior to that from time to time. It all seems to have come about as a result of Jeff Clement having some gracious bosses as he is employed by SAIT as a teacher. The logistics of the meetings has typically been that Jeff opens the room with his i-button or SAIT keys that he has. If Jeff has been indisposed we have been lucky enough to convince the cleaning staff to let us in. Jeff's bosses have moved us around a little as we have grown and our room requirements have grown. We have adjusted to these hiccups and hopefully haven't confused too many people along the way. The arrangement has been workable. We have had a few groans about people having to pay for parking on campus but considering we have been allowed to use the facilities for free I encouraged people to 'suck it up' or park in the surrounding neighbourhood if they still didn't want to pay. This year at Convergence we were approached by someone from DeVry to possibly hold our meetings there. The Executive toured the DeVry facilities last Thursday and we will be deciding whether we will be moving there or not for future meetings. We would like your thoughts on this. Feel free to speak candidly. I will say that we were mightily impressed by the offer. What we have been offered is a larger room (at least seating capacity-wise) it will seat about 100 people. With the rate at which we have been growing, we may need all those seats soon. The rooms are similarly equiped as SAIT, there is a podium WITH Ethernet, connection to an overhead LCD projector and power. The only real difference is that the rooms are equipped for wireless rather than ethernet at each desk (at least for this room, there are others with smaller seating capacities where there is ethernet to each desk). This would not stop us from running a switch or hub if people wanted to hook up via ethernet but in my opinion, having an Internet connection at the desks is not a huge deal. Yes, I am aware that some people bring laptops and 'jack-in' during presentations. People could take advantage of the wireless networking if you have a wireless card for your laptops. We would need to provide DeVry's networking folks with MAC addresses to enable you to hook up. They have offered this to us so with a little coordination and supported hardware we'd be good to go. Parking is free, C-train access is via Franklin station and I imagine there are bus routes nearby. Access to the campus is from Barlow Trail which is accessible readily from Deerfoot. To reiterate, they offered this to us at no charge. They have a number of students interested in Linux and this could mean more memberships and certainly more pooling of knowledgable people. The use of the room is consistent and completely above-board. The relative distance is not that far. It's still almost dead center of the city, just further East. I know there will be people who would rather stay at SAIT if we could work something out with them and I appreciate that. This Executive, like its predecessors has been very keen to make things better and we feel this may be one more thing that helps us grow. We have approached SAIT with an official request for meeting space but as of yet they have not gotten back to us. We could likely continue to use Jeff as a go-between and get free space through him and his bosses but the transient nature of this weighs heavily on your Executive's minds. We haven't decided anything yet. We may end of not having a choice, SAIT could come back and demand that we pay for space to meet there. With September fast approaching and no firm meeting place we are having to move quickly on this. The Executive will be meeting to discuss this sometime this week. If you would rather not voice your opinions on this list you may send them to me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or if you would prefer you could send them to the Secretary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The Executive was put in place to decide certain matters for the group, however, we wanted you to feel that you had a say in this regardless of what we decide. Thanks! - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQSBK4QCQFPa+bt49AQKfOQP/Z8RAdJXPGE6X/o+fytIjYmmE4XfyitS5 mA+Rzar2+zmQzvZZ/ssiqpLxBHgLht7trxxYFgJUQ/Mf69CS+pmGV7zg6gt631p8 EgDDODcnTONEjWqxhFVQCOWB6iwAx5qPjqmHZGCNTslwAaDCcF/8PQZHgqiQWmxv 6Niu8NH66AA= =tgZ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
