[ubuntu-uk] Happy Hour

[Bruno Girin]

On 24/09/11 13:54, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 24 September 2011 13:18, dan at fishms.org<dan at fishms.org>  wrote:
>> I heartily agree! Good accessible location (for Londoners at least) and nice
>> to see canonical folks there (and some most welcome Google folk)
> Definitely agree!
>
> I was wondering if there would be any interest in a monthly London
> meet for FOSS folk. I go to 3 monthly London science-fiction meets,
> one that's been running since 1946, and 2 monthly sceptical meets, one
> that's 11 or 12 years old now, so there are a few such functions that
> are already working well...
>
I'm sure that would work. Monthly is definitely manageable as it's just 
a case of finding a suitable pub 12 times a year. I've been helping to 
run a group that does weekly meets around London in a similar setting so 
I can fish out a list of likely watering holes. Thursdays are good to do 
such a thing as it's close to the weekend while not being the weekend 
quite yet.

Now in terms of practicality, here are a few things we could do to make 
it easier:

  * vary the location so that a majority of people can make it at some
    point;
  * make sure that for each meet, at least 2 people commit to be there
    from the start (say 7pm): there's nothing worse than being on your
    own in a pub wondering whether you're too early and nobody's arrived
    yet or you're too late and everybody's gone home already;
  * mention the 2 people above on the meet's details, possibly with a
    link to their wiki pages so that people have an idea what they look
    like (assuming they've got a photograph).

So if anybody's interested, I'm happy to organise the next London one 
either end of October or November.

Cheers,

Bruno

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110924/900f9a58/attachment.html>