<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm with Murray here.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm sure people will make their own plans on what to do post-conference.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I liked the idea of having the get together before the conf starts as its an opportunity to meet people in a more relaxed atmosphere, with beer.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>Luke</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17 Aug 2006, at 09:26, Murray Steele wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Is there really a problem here? I see these events as being nicely complementary to each other.<BR><BR>Unless the PoR event has infinite free beer then the 150 or so people who turn up are going to get through any provided amount fairly quick. Some people are going to want some more beer, even if they have to pay for it. For those booze-hounds the "event" us LRUG types are proposing works as a "Hey, run out of free beer? Well there is <SPAN style="font-style: italic;">cheap</SPAN> beer here, with more Rails than your average London boozer." <BR><BR>Also, and I know this idea goes against the socially acceptable image of a developer, there might be some Railers who don't like Pizza (anyone want to start up SaladOnRails?), who'd prefer to just kick back with a packet of crisps and a pint of frosty lager/lukewarm bitter/boiling stout. <BR><BR>As to Thursday night as an option, I'd imagine that the conference won't need any organised events for the actual nights of the conf as people will organically arrange their own get togethers during the day: "Man, that rake task you talked about is <SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">sweet</SPAN>, lets go get crunk on mojitos at Stringfellows." etc.<BR><BR>I could be wrong tho... anyone else care to chip in? <BR><BR>Muz<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 17/08/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">John Hornbaker</B> <<A href="mailto:hornbaker@parthenoncomputing.com">hornbaker@parthenoncomputing.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We considered Thursday night but learned the conference plans weren't<BR>conducive to serving up free pizza and beer. There's some early<BR>evening drinks and snacks already planned.<BR><BR>A Thursday night pub crawl around some nice English pubs would be a <BR>great way to finish off the evening and works well with the<BR>conference schedule too.<BR><BR>John<BR><BR><BR>On 16 Aug 2006, at 19:10, James Adam wrote:<BR><BR>> Perhaps, if PoR is expecting more people, you guys might want to <BR>> consider the thursday night? As I understand it you've yet to finalise<BR>> a venue...<BR>><BR>> - james<BR>><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>chat mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:chat@lrug.org"> chat@lrug.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>