<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Global Knowledge have been generous enough to provide us with meeting space since 1994, and that was thanks to their president Scott Williams. <div><br></div><div>As the arrangement is ending Alan Rocker and I have been looking at options to give him a token of our collective gratitude. We are circling around something like <a href="http://www.thedeskworks.com/sheaffer300-glossblue-presentation-pen-set2.html">http://www.thedeskworks.com/sheaffer300-glossblue-presentation-pen-set2.html</a> as an appropriate and useful gift (that is something that is less likely to end up in the back of a cupboard and forgotten than some tchotchke).<div><br></div><div>There are a couple of things I want to check with the group:</div><div><br></div><div>* Does anyone have any suggestions for alternative gifts?</div><div>* If we go with something similar to this, would a few of you be willing to chip in to help cover the cost?</div><div><br></div><div>I hope to get to a final decision and get the process moving by the end of this month, so there will be time to discuss it on the mailing list or at this month's meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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