<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true">Mark,</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Giving it a trial run first sounds good; we can work on the recurrence later if all goes well.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">On timing, I'm thinking soon after an dinner early, which would nicely roll into a drink afterward, say starting around 6:30 and being out by 7:45?</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">You've accurately surmised that I'm currently a single-man shop. My "office" doesn't have much in the way of space. As the group is called Albany Perl Mongers, I'd assume that the meeting should be in or near to Albany, and I'm also considering the availability of parking. I'm currently following up on a couple of leads:</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">1. The East Greenbush Library has <a href="http://eastgreenbushlibrary.org/meeting-rooms-and-exhibits">two large rooms</a> which can fit 90 people in one and 76 people in the other. The smaller of the two has a partition, to which they limit the meeting to 38, which seems to me more than enough. Its free and they even provide "audiovisual" equipment, which may mean a project. Also, parking is aplenty.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">2. <a href="http://www.renscochamber.com">Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce</a> in Troy has meeting rooms available, but I'm not yet sure of anything there such as hours, parking, room size and whether a projector could be used.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">I'll send an update when I get feedback from both. Does anyone have issues with either of these locations or the time suggestion, or better locations?</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><table style="font-family: Helvetica; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width: 70px; "><img width="70" height="69" src="http://cronin.dyndns.org/avatar.jpg" align="left" hspace="9" alt="Patrick's Avatar"></td><td><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><nobr><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt; ">Patrick Cronin</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></nobr><br><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 10pt; "><nobr>Computer Lover</nobr><br><nobr>Mobile: +1 518 248 7521</nobr><br><nobr>Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:oshihuna@gmail.com">oshihuna@gmail.com</a><br>Skype: patrickcronin12061</nobr><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: green; "><br><br><span style="font-family: webdings; ">P</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; ">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail / attachments</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br><div><div>On 9 Dec 2013, at 9:17 AM, Mark Fowler <<a href="mailto:mark@twoshortplanks.com">mark@twoshortplanks.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Patrick Cronin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oshihuna@gmail.com" target="_blank">oshihuna@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I would propose a meeting to be made up of 3 twenty-minute sessions, and that we take turns.</blockquote>
</div><br>Sounds good. Here's some random thoughts on the matter though years of organising these things.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1. We'd need a venue. Normally this is office space in a friendly firm. I've also done this in pubs before, where a company sponsors the event by hiring a room that has a projector.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Since I work from home now, I don't have much in the way to offer on this front. Patrick, I get the impression from stalking you on LinkedIn that you might be a single man-shop also. Do you have office space or do we need to seek further?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">2. Regular is good, but how about we work on the first tech meet first, and then see how it goes from there?. If we were clever about it we could combine it with the social, i.e. do presentations and then go for a drink afterward.<br>
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3. I'm more than happy to present; I've got a bunch of stuff I'd love to talk about.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Mark.</div></div>
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