Your choice of Restaurants in Mississauga

[William Park]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:49:03PM -0500, Bill Mudry wrote:
> At 11:21 AM 11/15/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >Would TLUG-West qualify to use a room in one of the Mississauga Community
> >Centres?    Would that room be free?
> >
> >bob
> 
> It is an option that could be kept in mind if the group grew too large to 
> meet in a restaurant.
> For now, I have memories of how well meeting in a restaurant worked for IPG 
> members
> (International Programmers Guild) years ago. Sharing a meal is always a 
> sociable activity.
> If you just met and sat around talking, I think some people would get bored 
> and leave.
> Its almost as if eating provides an excuse, a source of "entertainment" to 
> keep everyone'
> attention and interest.
> 
> Where a restaurant would NOT work out well could include:
>         - When the group is too big to be accommodated in a restaurant
>         - When there is a guest speaker that wants to show a live demo via 
> a projector
>            or use a blackboard
> 
> Certainly for a first meeting or two, there should be no need for either of 
> us. I would be
> surprised if our numbers would swell past 10 - 15 people and likely there 
> are a lot of
> people who would love just to get to know each other (in freeform style), 
> what our
> interests and projects are and just talk shop. Techies/programmers, etc. 
> often spend
> hours socially isolate (well some anyway) and appreciate just being with 
> others with
> similar interests.
> 
> Remember, these meetings are NOT just a change of location for TLUG 
> meetings. It is
> being started to make it easier to get together for those of us that are 
> out in the west
> end of Metro and beyond (even Hamilton and Kitchner if they care to come). 
> Anyone
> is welcome but it stands to reason that the numbers are likely to be lower 
> than the
> downtown meetings. If we, as a group, would like to also have other styles 
> of meetings
> such as demo or speaker or install days, we can talk about it at the 
> meeting and
> follow up at that point. Its more than enough, bob (and others) just to 
> have a light,
> sociable time at the start until we really do gel together and learn what 
> everyone
> really would like to do.
> 
> If the numbers do grow too large to accommodate all in a restaurant, your 
> suggestion
> would be a good one to look into at that time. My experience in the past is 
> that we
> all got along with up to at least 40 attending.
> 
> Bill Mudry :-)


Bill, since you're the pointman on this... just pick the data and place.
We'll make adjustment as we go.

Also, adjust your text width.  The above writing is unreadable.

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