On 16 May 2011 22:45, James Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
On 16 May 2011 21:51, Lewis Cawte lewiscawte@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't know, I'm 14, (15 in September), I live in Brighton, so it wouldn't be too hard to get there, but the idea of getting lost in London by myself scares me, and going unaccompanied into the pub (the regular venue I believe)... I guess I like the hackathon because theres a fair amount of time for talks and bugsmashing as well, and there are lots of techy people in one room...
As the organiser of the London meetups, I should throw in here that I've been mindful of the lack of variation in venues and a worry that as a pub, the location discourages some of our community - I'd be happy to move it to another spot if that would work better for people (Lewis and others). :-)
The British Library might be a good choice. There are lots of tables we can sit at, wifi, a cafe and, should people want to make use of them, reading rooms with access to lots of books. The opening hours aren't as good as a pub, though - I think we would get thrown out at 5pm (at which point we can relocate to a pub) and lots of things aren't open at all on Sundays, so we would probably need to move the meetup to a Saturday (which might be good - I'm sure there are some people that can't make Sundays).