From perl at minty.org Fri Nov 1 04:40:14 2013 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:40:14 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour" Message-ID: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> It was proposed (& 2nd etc) at last night's heretics to explore alternatives to the Cumberland for a venue for the *regular* monthly meet. On the grounds that the Cumberland hasn't gotten better since being taken over. And we fancied a change. Bert's bar appears to have a pub quiz on Thursdays (too noisey for chat). So we moved across to Teuchters (no pub food -- only restaraunt food downstairs). The suggestion is that rather than try to pick a pub, we'll instead embark on a ~6 month "tour", trying a different location each month, before selecting a winner to call home. Call it "Test Driven (meetup location) Development" if you will ;) Suggestions welcome for future places to try welcome ... For Thur November 28th (Thanksgiving!) the general consensus was to try Kay's bar Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. 0131 225 1858 https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street Note that's also the thursday before the London Perl Workshop http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/ fwiw ... for venues ... my understanding of the holy grail, in no particular order: - real ale - no background music / loud TVs / pub quiz - serves decent food, not too fancy/pricey - tables book-able - reasonably central - has wifi - friendly staff However, I've little hope we'll get one place that does all those perfectly for all people. Yours, Edinburgh Perl Cat Herder ps. it was also suggested we might try a meeting in Glasgow and/or St Andrew's ... just to give the whole tour thing a bit more rigour. Thoughts? From struan at exo.org.uk Fri Nov 1 04:51:20 2013 From: struan at exo.org.uk (Struan Donald) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:51:20 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: <9BDED499-16E7-414D-9A60-7C334353B823@exo.org.uk> On 1 Nov 2013, at 1 11:40, Murray wrote: > fwiw ... for venues ... my understanding of the holy grail, in no particular > order: > > - real ale > - no background music / loud TVs / pub quiz > - serves decent food, not too fancy/pricey > - tables book-able > - reasonably central > - has wifi > - friendly staff Hi, de-lurking to say that I was in the Kenilworth on Wednesday and it seemed to meet most of these conditions: http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/thekenilworthrosestreetedinburgh/ No idea about wifi or bookability of the tables but it did everything else. > However, I've little hope we'll get one place that does all those perfectly for > all people. > > Yours, > Edinburgh Perl Cat Herder > > ps. it was also suggested we might try a meeting in Glasgow and/or St Andrew's > ... just to give the whole tour thing a bit more rigour. Thoughts? If there's a meeting in St Andrews I might even manage to make it. Struan From stephen at jadevine.org.uk Fri Nov 1 04:55:06 2013 From: stephen at jadevine.org.uk (Stephen Quinney) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 11:55:06 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: It occurs to me now that Kays bar probably doesn't do food... Stephen On 1 November 2013 11:40, Murray wrote: > It was proposed (& 2nd etc) at last night's heretics to explore > alternatives to > the Cumberland for a venue for the *regular* monthly meet. > > On the grounds that the Cumberland hasn't gotten better since being taken > over. > > And we fancied a change. > > Bert's bar appears to have a pub quiz on Thursdays (too noisey for chat). > So > we moved across to Teuchters (no pub food -- only restaraunt food > downstairs). > > The suggestion is that rather than try to pick a pub, we'll instead embark > on a > ~6 month "tour", trying a different location each month, before selecting a > winner to call home. > > Call it "Test Driven (meetup location) Development" if you will ;) > > Suggestions welcome for future places to try welcome ... > > For Thur November 28th (Thanksgiving!) the general consensus was to try > > Kay's bar > Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. > 0131 225 1858 > https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street > > Note that's also the thursday before the London Perl Workshop > > http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/ > > fwiw ... for venues ... my understanding of the holy grail, in no > particular > order: > > - real ale > - no background music / loud TVs / pub quiz > - serves decent food, not too fancy/pricey > - tables book-able > - reasonably central > - has wifi > - friendly staff > > However, I've little hope we'll get one place that does all those > perfectly for > all people. > > Yours, > Edinburgh Perl Cat Herder > > ps. it was also suggested we might try a meeting in Glasgow and/or St > Andrew's > ... just to give the whole tour thing a bit more rigour. Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stephen at jadevine.org.uk Fri Nov 1 05:11:19 2013 From: stephen at jadevine.org.uk (Stephen Quinney) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 12:11:19 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: Yep, just checked, it seems Kays bar only do food for lunches. Stephen On 1 November 2013 11:55, Stephen Quinney wrote: > It occurs to me now that Kays bar probably doesn't do food... > > > Stephen > > > On 1 November 2013 11:40, Murray wrote: > >> It was proposed (& 2nd etc) at last night's heretics to explore >> alternatives to >> the Cumberland for a venue for the *regular* monthly meet. >> >> On the grounds that the Cumberland hasn't gotten better since being taken >> over. >> >> And we fancied a change. >> >> Bert's bar appears to have a pub quiz on Thursdays (too noisey for chat). >> So >> we moved across to Teuchters (no pub food -- only restaraunt food >> downstairs). >> >> The suggestion is that rather than try to pick a pub, we'll instead >> embark on a >> ~6 month "tour", trying a different location each month, before selecting >> a >> winner to call home. >> >> Call it "Test Driven (meetup location) Development" if you will ;) >> >> Suggestions welcome for future places to try welcome ... >> >> For Thur November 28th (Thanksgiving!) the general consensus was to try >> >> Kay's bar >> Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. >> 0131 225 1858 >> https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street >> >> Note that's also the thursday before the London Perl Workshop >> >> http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/ >> >> fwiw ... for venues ... my understanding of the holy grail, in no >> particular >> order: >> >> - real ale >> - no background music / loud TVs / pub quiz >> - serves decent food, not too fancy/pricey >> - tables book-able >> - reasonably central >> - has wifi >> - friendly staff >> >> However, I've little hope we'll get one place that does all those >> perfectly for >> all people. >> >> Yours, >> Edinburgh Perl Cat Herder >> >> ps. it was also suggested we might try a meeting in Glasgow and/or St >> Andrew's >> ... just to give the whole tour thing a bit more rigour. Thoughts? >> _______________________________________________ >> Edinburgh-pm mailing list >> Edinburgh-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perl at minty.org Fri Nov 1 07:48:36 2013 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:48:36 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20131101144836.GQ3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:11:19PM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote: > Yep, just checked, it seems Kays bar only do food for lunches. Thanks for checking ... I'm going to suggest we give Kay's a try regardless in Nov. I've updated the website accordingly: http://edinburgh.pm.org/ Patches welcome https://github.com/minty/edinburgh.pm From perl at minty.org Mon Nov 25 04:47:31 2013 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:47:31 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] This thursday -> edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Inaugral edinburgh.pm "tour" starts this thursday! Which is also thanks-giving for our (US of) American-ophiles. USA-ophiles? On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:40:14AM +0000, Murray wrote: > Kay's bar > Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. > 0131 225 1858 > https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street I've called, and they have reserved their "back room", that has a couple of tables, and plenty room for 6, with 7-8 at a squeeze. From 6.30, in my name. I believe they don't serve food in the evenings. Suggestions welcome, but I think the whole point is to explore new places and see how they work out, so that seems like a decent starting point to me. ps. It's also the London Perl Workshop this coming weekend. Edin.pm is currently the top British-Non-English group. However, the competition isn't huge (or even existent?) in that category ;) http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/stats From asmith9983 at gmail.com Mon Nov 25 05:13:29 2013 From: asmith9983 at gmail.com (A Smith) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:13:29 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] This thursday -> edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: I recently found a place that has a good food menu, at OK prices, ambience, and space. Also with with sharing bowls of fries similar to what we used to get at the Cumberland. Its Tiles on the corner of Saint Andrew Square and I think its South Saint Andrew Street, where the tram lines are. Handy for many buses, train and those who walk/cycle. Another place, a bit outside the city centre is the Links Hotel, off Bruntsfield Links. Good food too, and good space. Andrew On 25 November 2013 12:47, Murray wrote: > Inaugral edinburgh.pm "tour" starts this thursday! Which is also > thanks-giving > for our (US of) American-ophiles. USA-ophiles? > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:40:14AM +0000, Murray wrote: > > Kay's bar > > Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. > > 0131 225 1858 > > https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street > > I've called, and they have reserved their "back room", that has a couple of > tables, and plenty room for 6, with 7-8 at a squeeze. From 6.30, in my > name. > I believe they don't serve food in the evenings. > > Suggestions welcome, but I think the whole point is to explore new places > and > see how they work out, so that seems like a decent starting point to me. > > ps. It's also the London Perl Workshop this coming weekend. Edin.pm is > currently the top British-Non-English group. However, the competition > isn't > huge (or even existent?) in that category ;) > > http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/stats > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stephen at jadevine.org.uk Mon Nov 25 05:16:29 2013 From: stephen at jadevine.org.uk (Stephen Quinney) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:16:29 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] This thursday -> edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: Sounds good, I'm planning to be there from about 7:30pm. Stephen On 25 November 2013 12:47, Murray wrote: > Inaugral edinburgh.pm "tour" starts this thursday! Which is also > thanks-giving > for our (US of) American-ophiles. USA-ophiles? > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 11:40:14AM +0000, Murray wrote: > > Kay's bar > > Jamaica St, EH3 6HF. > > 0131 225 1858 > > https://www.google.com/maps/preview?q=kay%27s+bar,+jamaica+street > > I've called, and they have reserved their "back room", that has a couple of > tables, and plenty room for 6, with 7-8 at a squeeze. From 6.30, in my > name. > I believe they don't serve food in the evenings. > > Suggestions welcome, but I think the whole point is to explore new places > and > see how they work out, so that seems like a decent starting point to me. > > ps. It's also the London Perl Workshop this coming weekend. Edin.pm is > currently the top British-Non-English group. However, the competition > isn't > huge (or even existent?) in that category ;) > > http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2013/stats > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From perl at aaroncrane.co.uk Wed Nov 27 02:11:28 2013 From: perl at aaroncrane.co.uk (Aaron Crane) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:11:28 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] This thursday -> edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: Murray wrote: > I've called, and they have reserved their "back room", that has a couple of > tables, and plenty room for 6, with 7-8 at a squeeze. From 6.30, in my name. I'll be there a bit later than normal ? about 8.30. -- Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/ From perl at minty.org Thu Nov 28 09:12:58 2013 From: perl at minty.org (Murray) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:12:58 +0000 Subject: [Edinburgh-pm] This thursday -> edinburgh.pm "tour" In-Reply-To: References: <20131101114014.GO3259@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20131125124731.GK28243@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Message-ID: <20131128171257.GD27680@mooker.vm.bytemark.co.uk> So, Stephen said ~7:30 and Aaron ~8:30, and nobody else I've seen has said ... .. so unless someone shouts soon ish, I'm going to aim for ~7:30 as well. Murray. On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:11:28AM +0000, Aaron Crane wrote: > Murray wrote: > > I've called, and they have reserved their "back room", that has a couple of > > tables, and plenty room for 6, with 7-8 at a squeeze. From 6.30, in my name. > > I'll be there a bit later than normal ? about 8.30. > > -- > Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/ > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh-pm mailing list > Edinburgh-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh-pm