Hi Everyone, Most of you know that Devry has been sponsoring CLUG for the last 4 or 5 years by donating our meeting space. Devry has treated us very well over that time but unfortunately all good things come to an end. Devry has ended the 100% sponsorship that we've enjoyed to date and instituted a "setup fee" of $20.00 per meeting from this point forward.
CLUG is a not-for-profit entity and it would cost us about $500/year under this arrangement. To measure that in memberships, that's the income CLUG generates from 25 tier-2 memberships. I'd like to open a discussion regarding where we should meet. Because we have to consider cost it really opens up the discussion as to when, where,frequency & duration of our meetings. Member meetings will continue to be at Devry up-to and including the AGM on March 4th. At that point it will be up to the 2009/2010 executive to decide where to meet - but we can do all the investigation and prep work now. The next ProgSIG meeting (January 29th) will be held at Devry as usual. Thereafter ProgSIG meetings will either use the same facility as CLUG Member meetings or be held at a place designated by the SIG leader (Shawn Grover). I would like to go around the room at the February 4th member meeting and find out where the attendees are arriving from. This is the perfect opportunity to re-center the meeting location. We can look for facilities close to our geographic center, keeping in mind if we have attendees using C-Train etc. Please give some thought to where we can meet and the cost of meeting there. The facility should have free Internet access, free parking and preferably be close to public transportation and have a projector for presentations. Thanks, John Jardine President - Calgary Linux Users Group _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
