+1 for MADLAB -- although chances of dates coinciding with my personal logistics are reasonably slim.
Dave. On 8/23/10, Safe Hammad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
