[wlug_org] Possible presentation, venue

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:01, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just had a chat with Matt Frizzell at Auldhouse Computer Training --
> who are the RedHat training provider in New Zealand -- and a couple of
> things potentially relevant to Wellylug came up:
> 
> - he offered use of their facilities (Lumley House, Hunter Street) as 
>   a venue for Wellylug if we are interested -- they've got a few
>   training rooms set up for 15-25 people, and well set up for
>   presentations.  It might be worth considering as a possible
>   alternative venue (perhaps for some special meetings) where there are
>   more presentations as it'd probably work a bit better than Lan Place
>   for presentations

Sounds good to me - Cool. Several rooms to do a meeting is probably
better anyway, seeing as people quite often have differing needs and
wants on the night anyway.

..What's parking like?

> 
> - he wondered if wellylug would be interested in a brief technical 
>   presentation (say 10-15 minutes) from their Linux trainer about
>   RedHat, and their training.  Perhaps at the February meeting.  I said
>   I'd ask y'all and get back to him -- but a few people have been asking
>   about possible training so it might be quite interesting to find out
>   what's available and what the courses cover
> 

If that's the cost of using their facilities, then it's not bad. Ask him
when he's going to admit that Debian is just better...:-)


> Given that the next meeting is Feburary we've got a while to think about
> it, but it'd probably be useful to let them know by mid January so that
> they can make sure their Linux trainer is down in Wellington (he seems
> to spend a lot of time flying between Wellington and Auckland :-) ).

Ahh. What he needs is some help. Wellylug to the rescue! ;-)

> 
> Ewen