Hi, The next meeting with be at a new venue to try it out. To help fund it, we're asking for a contribution of £1 from each of those attending a meeting.
The Bournemouth Electric (Sports and Social Club) ‘...was founded in 1935 as a social club for employees of the Electricity Board’. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#bournemouth_electric It's dead opposite the car-park entrance to The Broadway that we've been using for a long time, so if you're used to making the trip then this will be no worse. I found it after many searches for suitable alternative venues, being fed up with the Broadway's level of noise from background music and the occasionally rowdy crowd. (Hardly heard the gunshots outside.) A brief approach suggested they'd be happy to let a bunch of us in if some were members so Terry (was) volunteered to go along this Tuesday and find out more detail about the venue and how it would work. The wiki above uses a Google map, but here's a detailed Geowessex one. https://explorer.geowessex.com/?basemap=26&x=410173.75&y=95043.78&epsg=27700&zoom=19 Terry's Tuesday visit showed there's Wi-Fi, and beer and lager are £3 a pint, or just under. (A member gets 10% off his drink, but not those he's buying for non-members.) You enter up a couple of steps into a corridor that leads into one large room with the bar. There are TV screen(s), but no sound, and no background music. There's also two very large function rooms that normally have to be booked and paid for. We've heard so far that we might be shoved off into one of those anyway if it's available, there's a few of us, and the main bar is a bit crowded, etc. (That would be ideal.) They don't realise yet that we'll be making the bar look untidy with laptops on tables. The catch is needing to have some BEC members to get the non-members in. Terry signed up as an OAP member on Tuesday for £10/year. Spring chickens pay £20. And both prices are rising from the 15th to £15 and £25. A ratio of 1:6 or more seems a bit of a cheek so we're planning to sign up another member on the night of the LUG meeting; someone that attends regularly. (Unless one of you lot is already a member or likes the sound of it.) Terry found membership, especially the beer discount, starts later, once Accounts have processed the application. Funding this is the reason for introducing the £1/meeting contribution. If it raises £80 over the year then it would cover £60 BEC fees with room to spare. If it starts raising too much then it can be suspended. If we start regularly getting a spare room to ourselves, being considerate guests that cause them no extra work at the end of the night, then we could consider short talks, etc. Worst case, the scattered laptops can each be following along the `slides' in a PDF. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-10-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
