Re: Thoughts on quarterly FSFE meetings in UK

Hi Ciaran,
Going by past business meetings, Manchester or Birmingham are usually  
good rendezvous points for most people. Manchester is more convenient  
for most in the north and Scotland as it's on the West Coast Main  
Line, and pretty quick to get to from London as well.

Though if it were up to me, Glasgow would be just fine :)   (I can  
offer a good venue here actually)

I don't have any particular ideas for venues in Manchester/Birmingham  
though.

Graeme


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On 2 Jul 2008, at 11:17, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to get regular regional FSFE meetings going and think the  
> UK as a
> good place to start.  The idea would be to have a meeting that,  
> while being
> regular, would be accessible to people from a fairly wide area.  The  
> format
> that springs to mind is a quarterly schedule, on a weekend afternoon,
> announced at least a month in advance, near the transport hub of  
> some city.
>
> I'd like to know what people think about this, and is there an obvious
> place?
>
> London is the obvious place for me since it's on my train  
> route :) ...but
> looking at the map and demographics, maybe Birmingham is better  
> since it's
> between London and the populous Northern cities - or maybe two  
> meetings
> would be necessary (in the long term).  It partly depends on how  
> good and
> expensive the road and rail connections are, which is something I  
> don't know
> very well (other than that rail is expensive in the UK :-/ ).
>
> So, imagining that the first meeting would take place 2nd half of  
> August or
> 1st half of September, does anyone have a suggestion for a venue in  
> London,
> Birmingham, or elsewhere?
>
> All other comments welcome too.
>
> Thanks.
> -- 
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