The current arrangements suit me, but I'm conscious that under 18s and moslems are unlikely to come to a pub. Having a loo that weelchair users can't use doesn't help either. The advantage of a pub is that provided you have a few drinkers such as myself the venue is free, but with the current state of Wikimedia UK funds I think we might be able to get some grant money to sometimes hire a different venue.
I'd like to try moving round a bit and maybe theming a few events - a joint Wikimedia UK/Bangla Wikipedia meetup at the http://www.eastlondonmosque.org.uk/facilities would be interesting. If the chapter were willing to fund it we could use this for some really interesting outreach work.
WSC
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). :-)
J.
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