On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 20:48 +0000, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
> 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.
Thats a great start. I can start sending nice letters etc and test the
waters.
Would be great to attend some of your meetings, just to put faces to
names.
Thanks
Phillip
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