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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/01/11 13:20, Guy Backhouse wrote: >> Can't help but wonder with the amount of hotels in the Torbay area why >> there is the need to pay for a room hire, for example a while ago on >> heading home (near Dunkerswell) after one of the meetings at Paignton I >> called in at the Monkton Court Hotel >> http://www.monktoncourthotel.co.uk/ on the A30 about a mile East of >> Honiton. They were glad to offer a room for free and showed me one that >> would accommodate a group of 12 or maybe more, perhaps free because I >> pointed out those attending would have drinks and maybe snacks. There >> would be car parking free too. >> It may be appropriate here to explain my thinking at the time; I am not >> aware of many LUG members in this area but would like to encourage >> others to move over to Ubuntu or any other flavour that interests and >> considered placing an article in the Upottery 'Parish Pump' to see if >> some serious interest could be drummed up amongst a few then it may be >> worth trying to drag some of you capable chaps over this way (we >> contribute to fuel) to help those interested get started and do >> installs. It is unlikely people would be up and properly sorted after >> one session up here and suspect at least 3 would be about right. >> >> wochafink! >> > > > > Sounds good for a mid devon venue, > > Given I can't personally do anything between now and April can I leave > this in your hands, perhaps looking at the dates we have paignton > meetings and the north devon meet, that leaves quite a few saturdays > (assuming people want to do saturdays for this) to book something. > > I have quite a few Ubuntu cd's and also appreciate that not everyone on > the list supports Ubuntu However my argument is that Ubuntu IS pretty > well supported as a community project, and we know there are members who > can use it, so support is less of an issue the more local users you have. > > lets give it a go, There are several of these local mini magazines > around so signposting people to the dclug site may also be a good idea, > esp if its directly to the events page. I think getting things > published in these is pretty easy as they are always looking for content. > > I would still support the fund raising idea though it does give us that > breathing space should we want to do a bigger event, and need the > capital to rent somewhere. or simply buy resources e.g blank cd's > > Paul Paul, there was mention of that church in Newton Abbott. I believe a lug member knows the folks that look after it and that we could meet there for free. Roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq