[Chicago] ChiPy North Venue found
Ken Wasetis [Contextual Corp.]
ken.wasetis at contextualcorp.com
Tue Feb 15 17:39:40 CET 2011
Don't make location/timing changes on my account, because I can't make
the meeting this Thursday (have something downtown) and will hopefully
be on vacation next month, but for the future meetings, I'd love
anything between Libertyville and Antioch, as I work out of Lake Villa
(in between the two.)
I suspect Antioch is too far north to attract many people. But...if we
weren't opposed to ordering a few glasses of wine, I could probably get
a favor from Catbridge Cellars in letting us use the 'long room' side of
their store for our space, as I suspect they aren't too busy on a
Thursday night. They might also be fine with us ordering some
appetizers from David's Bistro next door also.
Libertyville seems like a good, centralized location for a
mid-Lake-County ChiPy meeting in my book, if we can find a spot to meet
there. If we find a spot downtown Libertyville, the folks from downtown
Chicago (or anywhere along the line) could take a 60-minute train ride
and walk a block or so from there.
For what it's worth, I've seen non-profit/volunteer groups meet at the
Panera in Round Lake Beach. They have a room with doors we could close
during the meeting and they take/require reservations for that room. I
would think other Panera locations might have something similar. I
believe this Panera lacks plentiful power outlets, but they might have
the meeting room setup with enough of them - I can look, if there is
interest.
Grayslake has CLC - (Community) College of Lake County - and I would
think this a) would be a great location in terms of outlets, wifi, etc.,
but I'm not sure what their policy/cost is for non-profits reserving a
space. Perhaps their CS department has an ACM chapter or some CS org
for students we could coordinate with in order to not only reserve a
room, but accidentally turn onto Python.
Anyone have contacts at CLC? If we could work out a free arrangement, I
think there are a lot of benefits of having it there, especially
attracting new Python developers.
-Ken
On 2/15/11 10:22 AM, Tim Ottinger wrote:
> Bummer. Thats not nearly north enough for us far-northerns. I can
> get to Chicago more quickly and easily. I am coming to give away
> a door prize and meet my less-southern neighbors, but it's quite the
> haul for me.
>
> How far north are other northerners willing to go? Gurnee? Libertyville?
> Round Lake? Fox Lake? Antioch? Maybe we can find something 'way
> north or else start another splinter group?
>
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