On 12 September 2017 at 10:03, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On 2017-09-12 09:29, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > On 12 September 2017 at 09:06, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca> > wrote: > > > > > On 2017-09-12 08:00, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > > Reminder of L3GO meeting tonight at 18:30. > > > > Red Pepper Thai/Viet restaurant, 434 Bank Street (NW corner at > > > Gladstone). > > > > > > I won't be there tonight, but will be there for the next one October > 10th. > > > Having said that, this venue won't be open any longer then! > > > > > > The human powered vehicle club that meets there every Sunday got notice > > > that > > > the restaurant would be closing on September 20th. The restaurant > still > > > has > > > their location on Queen Street. > > > > Are they closing for good? > > Yes. It is a conflict with the landlord. Apparently a Korean restaurant > is > moving in there. Red Pepper still has their location on Queen that > openned a > copule of years ago. > OK. Never been to that other Red Pepper, hope the quality is the same. Red Pepper has amazing quality. > > > This presents a natural opportunity to look at other venues and other > > > times. > > > > > > For those who have wished to attend but could not due to scheduling > > > conflicts, > > > could you jump in and suggest a better time for you? > > > > Well, my problem with time conflicts is that I'm taking courses at > uOttawa > > (plus family obligations). So, this changes every semester. That said, > the > > best evening for me is on Fridays. Wed may workout depending on the > month. > > The other days are from difficult to impossible to attend. > > I think Friday could be workable but for it cutting into people's weekends > if > they want to go away for the weekend. > > > > And for those that were not satisfied with this venue, can you offer > ways > > > to improve the choice and suggest ones that work for you? > > > > I'd say food is a must have. Beer is desirable :) > > I'd agree to both. :-) My main concern with beer is that I'd want > decent > beer and many venues with decent beer are either expensive, or too noisy to > carry on a meeting. There are exceptions to this generalization of course. > We may get some quietude depending on the day of the week we go (where Friday would the worst choice).