Have you guys checked out the U of C? Up in Edmonton ELUG gets free meeting space at the U of A. How many people usually come to meetings? A lot of work places have big meeting areas that might work (I used to work at Transalta and they definitely did have a bunch of big meeting halls).
Cheers, Chris On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Shawn Grover <[email protected]>wrote: > just a heads up that this topic will also come up at the next Progsig > meeting. > > > John Jardine wrote: > >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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