On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 06:51:26PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-06-03 14:14:52 +0100 adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
I walked past the cafe yesterday and had a bit of a look through the window,
Aw, didn't you go in to try to accost Lewis?
We were showing a monsta around Norwich at the time and due to a lack of time in the monstas visit we had to hurry to make sure we showed her the better bits of Norwich before her train left about an hour later.
personally I don't feel it would be a suitable venue for an evening meeting due to the following things. Beer :)
Beer is hardly tricky to find in the vicinity and meeting in a pub does limit a little. Could probably relocate after an "active" bit of meeting, or ask whether it's OK to take alcoholic drinks in (not sure on the law myself)?
What does meeting in a pub limit? certainly the amount of mardling accomplished is much higher than kit meetings.
What do other people think? Personally I prefer meetings without kit now,
From what you write, I think you dislike meetings without kit-fixing, rather than kit in general?
Nope. I prefer meetings without kit because people talk about much more interesting things other than "yeah, this has 2700 DDR Ram and a 7200rpm disk, I want to upgrade it to a faster cpu and GFX card" (which is similar to what I spent lots of the last meeting discussing, but that was more interesting for me as it was about my laptop ;)) I reckon that much more interesting subjects get talked about when there is lots of beer to be consumed other than computers (which many of the members who work with computers probably want to forget about them until the next day when they have to use, support and fix them)
Adam