Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meetings

On Thursday 11 Dec 2008, Phillip Chandler wrote:
> Could I be nosey. I run the West Berks LUG, and Im keen to try and
> organise an open day in Newbury. Ive seen your emails about the uni open
> days you run.
>
> Id be interested in approaching Newbury College to ask about using one
> of their rooms on a weekend.
>
> Could I nab some info from you if poss, about the best way to ask etc,
> if you donate towards the costs (heating, broadband) etc. And if the uni
> gets some great publicity.

I can't comment on how things started as it was before my time, but at the
moment we have tame contacts in the universities we visit and get the space
and bandwidth for free and we promise not to break things and leave the place
clean and tidy. We also visit places where people work, Nokia have let us in
for nothing in the past as well.

Other places charge money - sometimes a lot, and for that we need to take
donations on the door. In fact we always try and take donations to even out
the differing costs of venues.

With the money we've collected we have bought our own kit so we can turn up
with plenty of power strips, switches and CAT5, wireless bridging, we also
contribute towards our server and so on.

> Any help you could chuck my way would be very helpfull.

I'd say the best thing to do would be for a few of you to come down one of our
meetings, from our web site you can see which ones tend to be better attended
and what has gone on in the past.

There is also the Reading SCLUG, they don't tend to have technical meetings
but they are closer if you want social gatherings. If you have any joy with
Newbury let us know when your meetings are, there are quite a few of us in
the north of the county who can probably make Newbury and if there are enough
people interested we could do a joint meeting.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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