On 21 August 2010 21:18, dchetwynd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I enjoyed the meeting on Thursday and it was good to meet you all, > even though I had to leave before the end. > Good to meet you too! > > Have you considered changing the venue to something other than a pub? > Rain Bar was noisy and there wasn't much space to sit and chat. I > realise that in leaving early, I missed the end of the meeting where > you discussed further meetings. > > Agreed. It was less than satisfactory at first though it improved marginally when we moved to the table round the corner. > I'd highly recommend MADLAB for a meeting venue (www.madlab.org.uk). > It's in Manchester city centre and is already used by many other > programming groups. I attend XP Manchester, GeekUp Manchester, > Manchester Free Software and North West Perl Mongers there. I've also > just come back from BarCamp Manchester at MADLAB. It's a fantastic > venue and any programming group can hire it as long as they're not > running the meeting for profit. They have a dedicated meeting room > with a projector and tables. You can bring alcohol along and they > usually have some of their own for sale. > Sounds ideal if we want to graduate to holding talks / lightning talks / presentations. I think Simon mentioned the HACMan events held there. > I don't think that you could book it for the third Thursday of each > month as it was the North West Ruby User Group at MADLAB on Thursday. > If you were prepared to change the meeting day though, I'm sure MADLAB > would be able to fit you in. > > What do you think? > I'm not familiar with MADLAB but if the stats work out (e.g. location, fees, number of people it can hold etc.) and we can find a regular slot then I'd be game. I'd be interested to know whether some people like the informal atmosphere (and beer) of a pub. One option is to alternate between talk / coding meets and pub meets (the Cambridge Python Group does this quite successfully). > > Daley > > -- > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
