[ILUG-Social] regular drinks ?

[Noel Carroll]

I'd guarantee a presence every feww months too...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Walsh [mailto:me at niallwalsh.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:45 PM
> To: social at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Social] regular drinks ?
> 
> 
> I don't think anyone could guarantee a regular attendance, but the 
> question is are there enough people who will collectively 
> guarantee an 
> attendence?   If everyone is doing it last minute, the chances of Joe 
> Newuser walking in and finding no-one are much greater, but if every 
> week someone will agree to be the patsy who is GUARANTEEING 
> to sit there 
> from 2-4 (or whatever hour(s)) then this could easily work 
> and grow and 
> be lots of fun.
>    Hence I suggested an icon (cuddly Tux) which will be 
> transferred to 
> the patsy^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteer every week to show that ilug is 
> in the pub. 
>   The hard bit would be getting someone to pin themselves 
> every week, we 
> probably need 5-20 candidates to ensure it, how many have we got?
> 
> I'd be willing to guarantee my presence every (say) couple of 
> months   
> Any more patsys?
> 
> Niall
> 
> 
> John P. Looney wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:00:33PM +0000, Niall Walsh mentioned:
> >
> >>Now it doesn't effect me, but is mssrs friendly to 
> under-age people (not 
> >>to break the law, but to sit around drinking coke)?   If 
> not I think 
> >>that should be a priority to pick somewhere that won't care 
> if there are 
> >>10 15-17 year olds sitting around hacking, chatting and fragging.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, it's no problem. 
> >
> >>Saturday Afternoon (or mayber even Sunday?) sounds good to me :-)   
> >>Where you thinking weekly or ???   I'd go for weekly (the 
> pub better be 
> >>happy about it) or maybe monthly (first Xday of the month 
> and yes Xday 
> >>is a new MS invention).   With any sort of a regular arrangement we 
> >>night even get back some of the atmosphere from the old 
> computer club days.
> >>
> >
> > Saturday, people use for shopping...that's why I suggested it...
> >
> >>The only question is can we/you guarantee to have someone 
> there every 
> >>time (perhaps buy/co-opt a penguin which must be brought 
> each time by 
> >>someone to show that we are there) cause it wouldn't be 
> good to have 
> >>people turning up to no-one.
> >>
> >>If you build it, they will come?
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps. Only I *know* I won't be able to make it in every week. So
> >depending on me to start it is a bad idea. The thing is, most people
> >won't know they'll be there until that afternoon. If it was 
> a standing
> >order, people would be more likely to head in for an hour or so.
> >
> >Kate
> >
> 
> 
> 
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