All I'm doing is passing on experience that has been made from the ways we have chosen venues for alug meetings in the past, if you want to do it a different way then fine. I'm not pointing to a specific nature of anything, just a general one and increasing openess usually helps, especially with the nature of something related to open and free software ;)
Excluding people in an arbitary manner tends to split communities more than including them.
Fair enough. Let's consider this thread an opening, for anyone who would like to share their views/thoughts/recommendations on where they'd like the Ipswich venue to be. That would be genuinely useful to hear other peoples views.
However, the final decision has to rest with those ppl who are the ones going to attend the meets - if you want to draw analogies with the open source movement, it doesn't matter how many ppl outside the Linux kernel development community may want to move the license for it to GPL v3, it isn't going to happen unless a significant number of the developers agrees ... ;)
Peter.