SPUG: Re: Hosting SPUG meetings (fwd)
Patterson, David S (David)
davidpa at mosaix.com
Wed Oct 13 13:56:35 CDT 1999
You make an excellent point.
I wonder how many more of the 'great unwashed' of the Eastside are
not speaking up. Traffic going towards downtown during the evening rush
hour is nightmarish even on a good day.
The offer is still open for the Lucent facilities in Redmond. Dare I
suggest
we consider multiple venues?
"Please solve your problems in advance so that we can help
you better..."
> David Patterson
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Devin L. Ganger [SMTP:devin at premier1.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:54 AM
> To: Tim Maher/CONSULTIX
> Cc: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Re: Hosting SPUG meetings (fwd)
>
> Pardon the lag on responding to this; it's been a busy week. :)
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote:
>
> > The following note confirms that we could hold our future meetings at
> the
> > SpeakEasy cafe, in downtown Seattle. I figure this would be an
> extremely
> > popular option for those working in the downtown area, and an extremely
> > unpopular option for everybody else.
> >
> > So, those (10%) of you on this list who actually attend our meetings,
> > what do you think? And more importantly, can you offer us another
> > more suitable meeting place, or a suggestion where we could find one?
>
> Speaking as one of the 90% who doesn't show up (the last one I went to was
> the meeting with Larry Wall), I can state that I haven't been showing up
> precisely because of the locations. Granted, being up in the
> Monroe/Sultan area, I expect to have to do a bit more driving than the
> rest of y'all, but still, very little these days is worth a trip into
> downtown Seattle.
>
> Eastside is good. However, I realize I'm a special case.
>
> --
> Devin L. Ganger, Chief Systems Administrator, Premier1 Internet Services
> One zone to rule them all, one zone to find them
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>
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