[CMI.PM] I've got a topic if you've got a venue!

manchicken manchicken at notsosoft.net
Thu May 24 09:00:40 PDT 2007


On Thursday 24 May 2007 10:58:27 Milt Epstein wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Price, Bob wrote:
> > No, they have nothing
>
> There are many local places that have free wifi, so it seems silly to
> go some place that doesn't.  I found this list, not sure how
> up-to-date it is:
>
> http://www.cuwin.net/hotspots
>
> If we're looking for a place that has decent dinner-time food, then
> these look like good choices: Panera Bread (either location), Pekara,
> Za's (campus only).  Maybe Cafe Paradiso, I'm not sure of what exactly
> they server and what their hours are.  (Actually, for any of these
> places we should probably check what their hours are, especially this
> time of year.)  Some other places that might be possibilities, but I'm
> not familiar with them: Blind Pig, Guido's.  If food is not a
> requirement, a number of other places become options (although I
> prefer food :-).
>
> I did consider how conducive these places are for some kind of "talk"
> (e.g., in terms of having enough space and tables), although not to
> the point of having a projector and/or somewhere to project onto.  Not
> sure any place meets that requirement.
>
> Milt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: champaign-urbana-bounces+bprice=atgf.com at pm.org
> > [mailto:champaign-urbana-bounces+bprice=atgf.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of
> > Michael D. Stemle, Jr.
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:59 AM
> > To: champaign-urbana at pm.org
> > Subject: Re: [CMI.PM] I've got a topic if you've got a venue!
> >
> > On Thursday 24 May 2007 08:57:50 Price, Bob wrote:
> >>  We've met at the Italian Patio (Manzella's) in previous engagements
> >> where the have a very good pizza we've enjoyed, but sadly no wireless.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bob (ryddler)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> Subject: [CMI.PM] I've got a topic if you've got a venue!
> >>
> >> Okay, so there wasn't much love for the venue of Espresso Royale that
> >> I picked last time around.  I've got a little talk on AJAX and Perl
> >> that I'd be happy to give if anybody wants to pick a venue.  A
> >> projector would be nice.
> >>
> >> Maybe someone else could give a talk as well.  We're well past due it
> >> seems.
> >> Much thanks.
> >
> > Do they have a wired connection?  It would be best if we had a wireless
> > connection since some of my examples are on a remote host.

I think it's also important to have a venue where we can use a projector or at 
least a rather large monitor.

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