[wlug_org] Social evening to get rid of LUG $$

[Tony Wills]

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At 22:58 5/08/04 -0700, Brent wrote:
>Re a curry night paid for bt LUG:
>
>Any use of the funds should be demonstrably & clearly in line with the 
>Wellylug
>objectives, and IMHO open to all members (ie: no age/gender or other
>discrimination)

And end of year social event is somewhat traditional, so maybe hold off for 
a couple or four months.

As for curry and beer, how about something edible instead? ;-)


At 02:04 6/08/04 -0700, Brent wrote:
> > (Jamie B wrote)
> > I suggest the choices are:
> >
> > italian
> > mexican
> > indian
> > welsh (!)
> > thai/asian
Add:
Smorgasboard
Greek
Vegetarian
Turkish
Cambodian
Chinese
French
American
Caribbean
English
Irish
Malaysian
Japanese
Mongolian
Vietnamese
Korean
Pakistani

Only way to go is for each person to rank them in order of preference - I 
think a single-transferable-vote system is most appropriate, I expect 
Jethro will have one ready for us by tomorrow :-)

> From a good red meat perspective, wot about the Hog's Breath? (I guess it is
>prob classed as USA for ethnicity, but that is pretty meaningless....)
>
>Even vegetarians are allowed, but preferably not aloud - like Debian users :-)

How can you put "good" and "red meat" together :p
I trust vegetarian Debian users are to be catered for too ;-)

But why go to a restaurant (Are we talking of about $400 in the kitty - 
feed 16 people at $25 a head?)?  You get to sit down and chat to a couple 
of neighbours and eat an expensive meal.  Why not just hire a room or a 
hall somewhere and have a social/party/get-together and even computers 
could come too.  A good pile of finger food and liquid refreshments and 
everyone would be happy.  (Especially remembering that if a significant 
portion of the 'membership' turn up you'll take over the whole of most 
Wellington restaurants ... ).

I seriously suggest that a social/party type of get together will be far 
easier to get consensus on than finding a restaurant that suits a sizeable 
number ...

I would also like to point out that there is no pressing need to blow the 
money in this way, it will only devalue slowly until we find a real use for 
it.  

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