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Re: [SIGS-L3GO] Looking ahead to October venue and time change [was: Re: Reminder of L3GO meeting this evening.]

  • Subject: Re: [SIGS-L3GO] Looking ahead to October venue and time change [was: Re: Reminder of L3GO meeting this evening.]
  • From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:34:31 -0400
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).