On 24 September 2011 15:48, Simon Watson <simon.m.wat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I suggest rotating them around different parts of london, so that it's > easier for people from outside London to join? > > So, one meet somewhere near kings cross/victoria/paddington/euston etc. That > way more people can attend from outside London.
The snag with having it move around every month is that you have to plan out your trip for a particular venue - look up where it is and find that particular pub. Also, it means we can probably in time find a particular corner or area or table so that we'll always be in the same /part/ of the pub, again making it easier for new visitors to find us. If there is just one place, every month, then people can just turn up "on spec" on the relevant day without checking where they need to go to. This is *much* easier for a recurring event: you don't need to plan, or research, you just think "ah, it's the third Thursday, I'll head for the pub" and off you go. This approach has been working for the Tun for about the last 65 years. :¬) Also, I'd suggest making it a fairly large pub - so that there's space for the group to grow, without upsetting other non-group pub customers with a load of single-interest "weirdos" crowding them out. It's helpful if it does food. And for me, and I suspect quite a few other FOSS types, it's *extremely* important that the pub does real ale or at least good beer. I don't drink any other form of alcohol myself. On this basis, I quite like Sam Smiths pubs, especially if they are one of the small number still serving cask ale. It's good beer and it's very cheap. Some people dislike them as Sam Smiths do not and will not sell anyone else's products: so there are no brand-name drinks, no Foster's or Guinness or Coca-cola or Sprite or anything, *only* Sam Smiths' own lines. As for making it easier for people from outside London - well, come on, once you've reached a mainline terminus, you're inside Zone 1. It is then seldom more than about 20min on the Tube to get to any other point in Zone 1. So as long as the pub is fairly near /a/ mainline terminus, it's really pretty easy for anyone. London is big but /central/ London isn't that large. So I would vote /strongly/ against it moving every time; I think that in the long run this will inhibit its growth and prevent people from finding it. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
