[H-GEN] UQ room bookings have hit a snag

[David Harrison]

If UQ's support is waning and there is interest in looking at new venues,
River City Labs (http://rivercitylabs.net/) in Fortitude Valley have been
hosting a lot of events for meeting groups and they'd be willing to host
(at no cost).

If anyone on the exec is interested I can introduce you to their operations
manager Josh; he'd be more than happy to chat about options.

They're moving into a new space & it might be a great way to get HUMBUG and
open source up and centre in front of what is becoming Queensland's
tech/startup hubs.


-- 
dave

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Russell Stuart <
russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 13:33 +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Have you got any information on how many UQ students are either
> > members or make use of your services.
> >
> > I know I have pointed students in your direction before but I have no
> > idea how many students take up the suggestion. Some positive info in
> > this area might persuade the powers that be.
>
> I don't know Peter as we don't ask.  I know we have had students turn up
> this year, especially around Pycon time.  All people I know who were
> students and still attend regularly graduated last year.  "Real"
> students tend to be an ephemeral lot.
>
> If Humbug is going appeal to the power that be, it's going to have to be
> on what we do and stand for.  We may not be able to attract a permanent
> student membership, but UQ students regularly attend and volunteer for
> the open source conferences we organise. (The next one we are looking at
> is LCA, maybe 2018, which is traditionally held *at* a University.)  As
> you know, we work at making the student population at all Brisbane
> Universities aware of these conferences, and we make a large loss on
> students tickets so money won't be factor in their decision to attend.
>
> Beyond that, we are "the" Open Source group in Queensland.  We one of
> the strongest such clubs in Australia.  You can measure that in any
> number of ways: attendance, conferences we involve ourselves in, having
> regular fortnightly meetings with a published schedule, and regular
> executive meetings with published minutes.
>
> Maybe that is because we are also the oldest such club.  I don't think
> we would be around if it weren't for UQ's continued support over the
> years, so UQ's support has yielded something tangible: a strong public
> face for open source in Queensland.
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