[activities] Re: activities Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7
dbmoodb <[email protected]>
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re venue. *From town hall station it is 1.6 km* – about *21 mins to get to google (over the bridge too !). I do not see a closer train station. Please let me know if there is another / better method of public transport. (given that slug finishes late.....). * 2009/4/22 <[email protected]> > Send activities mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/activities > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of activities digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: SLUG Beginner's workshop? (Jeff Waugh) > 2. LinuxChix/AussieDevChix meeting in Sydney, Lindt Cafe, > Darling Harbour, Fri April 24th, 5:30pm ([email protected]) > 3. Re: SLUG Beginner's workshop? (Sridhar Dhanapalan) > 4. Trial a new venue? (Sridhar Dhanapalan) > 5. Re: Trial a new venue? (Jeff Waugh) > 6. Re: Trial a new venue? (Erik de Castro Lopo) > 7. Re: SLUG Beginner's workshop? (gnufsf) > 8. Re: Trial a new venue? (James Polley) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> > To: gnufsf <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:06:04 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] SLUG Beginner's workshop? > <quote who="gnufsf"> > > > SLUG planning list suggestion: Beginner's workshop in Sydney. > > Yeah, it's been a while since we've had a Bootcamp (SLUG nickname for the > same thing)... hoping the ctte has some spare cycles to find a champion and > let them loose. :-) > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ > http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ > > "Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb." - Dark > Helmet, Spaceballs > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:22:43 +1000 (EST) > Subject: [activities] LinuxChix/AussieDevChix meeting in Sydney, Lindt > Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri April 24th, 5:30pm > Aussie(Linux)Chix and AussieDevChix will have their regular joint > meeting in Sydney before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. > Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be > interested in coming. > > Date: Friday 24th April 2009 > > Time: 5:30-6:15pm > > Location: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, Shop 104-105, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling > Harbour > > Directions: The Lindt Cafe is on the ground floor of the Cockle Bay > Wharf building, between the two halves. Look for the > fountain, or alternatively look right under the Blackbird > Cafe. > > Map: http://tinyurl.com/2vdgch > > RSVP: [email protected] > > Can men come? Men may come as the guest of a woman attendee. Note > that this is not a LinuxChix-wide policy, it is > specific to these pre-SLUG meetups. > > If you RSVP, we can send you a mobile number to call if you can't find us. > > Afterwards we will go to the SLUG meeting together. See < > http://www.slug.org.au/node/113 > for more details about the SLUG > meeting. > > The Chix meetings in Sydney are organised by Sydney members of > AussieChix, the Australian LinuxChix chapter. See > <http://au.linuxchix.org/> for more about AussieChix. > > - Melissa > http://www.meldraweb.com > http://www.geekosophical.net > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> > To: SLUG activities <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:26:09 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] SLUG Beginner's workshop? > 2009/4/21 Jeff Waugh <[email protected]>: > > <quote who="gnufsf"> > > > >> SLUG planning list suggestion: Beginner's workshop in Sydney. > > > > Yeah, it's been a while since we've had a Bootcamp (SLUG nickname for the > > same thing)... hoping the ctte has some spare cycles to find a champion > and > > let them loose. :-) > > The Bootcamp was brilliant, but it did take a considerable amount of > effort to organise and orchestrate. A simpler workshop as LUV is doing > would be more achievable. If somebody wants to take this on, I'm sure > we'd find a way to help out. > > > -- > Bring choice back to your computer. > http://www.linux.org.au/linux > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> > To: SLUG Activities <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:38:26 +1000 > Subject: [activities] Trial a new venue? > Hello SLUG members, > > We are considering trialling a new venue for our May meeting. Google > Sydney has offered us a meeting area in their new offices at Level 5, > 48 Pirrama St, Pyrmont. > > While Atlassian has served us well, there are several reasons why > Google might offer a better option. There is increased space, > particularly for SLUGlets, and free wi-fi. > > On the downside, it is farther from a railway line and from Golden > Harbour. It might be better to dine elsewhere. Suggestions are > welcome. Also, the security arrangements are stricter: you'll need to > sign up for a name badge (preferably >24 hours before the meeting to > avoid queueing up), and entry after about 7pm is more difficult. > > Any thoughts? > > > -- > Bring choice back to your computer. > http://www.linux.org.au/linux > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:50:35 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] Trial a new venue? > <quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > > > We are considering trialling a new venue for our May meeting. Google > > Sydney has offered us a meeting area in their new offices at Level 5, 48 > > Pirrama St, Pyrmont. > > > > While Atlassian has served us well, there are several reasons why Google > > might offer a better option. There is increased space, particularly for > > SLUGlets, and free wi-fi. > > Two thoughts / questions: > > * How large are the meeting areas in their new digs? > > * How bureaucratic is the entrance process? Security guards and lifts (as > you'd remember was a pain at IBM in St Leonards)? Will everyone have to > sign NDAs and not look at the walls (as is usual for Google events)? > > I'd imagine both issues would've been prime candidates to solve along with > their move, but figured it was worth finding out anyway. > > Thanks, > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ > http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ > > "A rest with a fermata is the moral opposite of the fast food > restaurant with express lane." - James Gleick, Faster > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]<mle%[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:50:07 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] Trial a new venue? > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > > > > > We are considering trialling a new venue for our May meeting. Google > > > Sydney has offered us a meeting area in their new offices at Level 5, > 48 > > > Pirrama St, Pyrmont. > > I have held two Fp-Syd meetings at the new google offices and here > are my impressions. > > > Two thoughts / questions: > > > > * How large are the meeting areas in their new digs? > > There have two rooms with a divider that can make two rooms into > one large room. The first and most easily accessible room is not > much larger than the one at Atlassian. In some ways Atlassian > may even be a better fit. > > > * How bureaucratic is the entrance process? > > Before 6:30pm, its nowhere near as bad as IBM, you can walk right > to the entrance to the Google play room (pool table, guitar hero > etc) and people at that door can be seen from the meeting room > if the door is open (we had to close it last time due to noise). > > After 6:30pm access is actually worse than IBM :-). Late comers > with have to phone (with a mobile) someone inside the meeting > and someone will have to come down and let them in. This is > a major pain. > > On another note, the laptop projector setup is awesome. > > > Will everyone have to > > sign NDAs and not look at the walls (as is usual for Google events)? > > Nope, no NDAs. > > FP-Syd has a tradition of drinking beer after the meeting. This is > well catered for at Pyrmont. I don't think the food/meal situation > will be quite as easy to fix. > > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: gnufsf <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:43:16 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] SLUG Beginner's workshop? > It is a heady feeling having the blessings of Australia's very own > god-of-Linux on my first posting here :) > > >From my n00b's point-of-view a 'Bootcamp' does sound rather intimidating > Jeff.... a fear of neologisms perhaps? So Sridhar's suggestion of a > small-scale, (low key and low stress) workshop modelled on LUV's sounds > inviting; I personally don't want to put anyone to a lot of trouble. > > I'm glad I raised the topic and I'll keep an eye out for developments. > thanks & cheers, > Meryl > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Polley <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:17:23 +1000 > Subject: Re: [activities] Trial a new venue? > (obdisc: I'm mostly wearing my "Googler who extended the offer to host" hat > in this email, but you may detect hints of my "Committee member" hat peeping > through the holes) > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo < > [email protected] <mle%[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Jeff Waugh wrote: >> >> > <quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> >> > >> > > We are considering trialling a new venue for our May meeting. Google >> > > Sydney has offered us a meeting area in their new offices at Level 5, >> 48 >> > > Pirrama St, Pyrmont. >> >> I have held two Fp-Syd meetings at the new google offices and here >> are my impressions. >> >> > Two thoughts / questions: >> > >> > * How large are the meeting areas in their new digs? >> >> There have two rooms with a divider that can make two rooms into >> one large room. The first and most easily accessible room is not >> much larger than the one at Atlassian. In some ways Atlassian >> may even be a better fit. > > > For SLUG, we'd use both rooms. The larger room is twice as large as the > room fp-syd uses, and is where we'd have the General talk. We'd use the > smaller room for the second half, when we split into two streams. > > The larger room is just as easily accessible - but from the end of the > building opposite the games room, so you probably haven't noticed the > entrance :) > > >> >> >> > * How bureaucratic is the entrance process? >> >> Before 6:30pm, its nowhere near as bad as IBM, you can walk right >> to the entrance to the Google play room (pool table, guitar hero >> etc) and people at that door can be seen from the meeting room >> if the door is open (we had to close it last time due to noise). > > > The games room tends to be quieter on Friday nights. Regardless, we'll be > in the big room for the first half, so farther from the noise :) > > >> >> >> After 6:30pm access is actually worse than IBM :-). Late comers >> with have to phone (with a mobile) someone inside the meeting >> and someone will have to come down and let them in. This is >> a major pain. > > > The revolting door is *meant* to stay open till 7pm. We're still working on > making that actually happen - hopefully it will be solved by the time SLUG > has a meeting > > Even if it doesn't, we'll have more helpers at a Slug meeting than at an > fp-syd meeting, so it will be easier to arrange for someone to be waiting at > the entrance until a bit past 7. > > However, the security is also going to be a problem for smokers. We don't > have anywhere they can pop for a smoke without being locked outside. We can > arrange a smoke break in the intermission, but people aren't going to be > able to come and go as easily as they can at Atlassian. > > > >> >> On another note, the laptop projector setup is awesome. >> >> > Will everyone have to >> > sign NDAs and not look at the walls (as is usual for Google events)? >> >> Nope, no NDAs. >> >> FP-Syd has a tradition of drinking beer after the meeting. This is >> well catered for at Pyrmont. I don't think the food/meal situation >> will be quite as easy to fix. > > > There are plenty of restaurants in Pyrmont, so it's not an insoluble > problem. > > According to gMaps the walk to Golden Harbour is 1.8km, compared with 800m > from Atlassian, so the difference is significant. > > >> >> Erik >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Erik de Castro Lopo >> http://www.mega-nerd.com/ >> -- >> SLUG Activities >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > > > -- > SLUG Activities > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG Activities Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html