[Mpls-pm] Saturday night venue for Frozen Perl

[Luke Francl]

Dave,

As an organizer, I can tell you that finding a venue is the hardest thing 
we have to deal will to put on MinneBar/MinneDemo.

Here's a couple venue's we've used that we were able to get for "free" 
with an appropriately sized drink/food buy.

Chaing Mai Thai in Uptown has a private room that fits 100. We got it for 
$500 worth of appetizers.

Acadia Cafe at Nicollet and Franklin has a nice room (and great beer). We 
rent it for the Ruby Users of Minnesota meetings for $50 (on a Monday, 
though.) For the last MinneDemo, we got it for $1000 worth of drinks.

I don't know if you have any kind of sponsor money to work with, but we've 
found offering a guaranteed buy a good way to get off without paying 
to rent a room.

None of these places are near the U, but hopefully it's at least somewhat 
helpful.

Luke