Hi Chris, I'm developing a list of possible locations. Our meetings have been averaging about 25 attendees. This may change up or down if we shift location when some find it easier to attend and others may find it more difficult.
I also want to get input from the attendees at the next meeting. If you have contacts that I could speak with to secure meeting space a couple of times per month please forward them to me off-list. Thanks, John Jardine On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:08 -0700, Chris q wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
