[Members] London meetup?

[Laura Gill]

Peter, 

Mozilla offices are by Leicester Sq?

Laura

Apologies for shortness of message or typos, writing this on the go

> On 8 Feb 2014, at 00:19, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/5/14, 4:17 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> On 2/5/14, 2:54 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im
>>> <mailto:stpeter at stpeter.im>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    On 2/5/14, 2:46 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Steven Lloyd Watkin
>>>        <lloyd at evilprofessor.co.uk <mailto:lloyd at evilprofessor.co.uk>
>>>        <mailto:lloyd at evilprofessor.__co.uk
>>>        <mailto:lloyd at evilprofessor.co.uk>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>             Hi Peter,
>>> 
>>>             We were talking about having an XMPP UK meetup to coincide
>>>        with the
>>>             IETF.
>>> 
>>>             Tuesday would work better and we could probably get a space
>>>        at at
>>>             Mozilla for the evening. I'm sure Surevine would also
>>>        supply food +
>>>             drinks.
>>> 
>>>             If everyone would be interested in that I can talk to Laura
>>>        and get
>>>             things moving.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>        Ah. IETF Social event on Tuesday evening - that means many IETF
>>>        people
>>>        we could otherwise subvert might want to go there instead.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    If we meet on Saturday, most IETFers won't yet be in town either.
>>> 
>>>    /me shrugs
>>> 
>>>    I think that we could have a productive day on Tuesday.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, I agree. I'm wondering if the XMPP meetup might not be better on
>>> the Monday, though, in order to attract more IETF folk.
>> 
>> The technical plenary goes until 19:50 on Monday and at that point there
>> will be a lot of hungry and thirsty geeks looking to hit the pub, not
>> join an XMPP meetup. I think we might have more success with Tuesday
>> since the agenda ends at 18:30. But I am skeptical that we'd attract
>> lots of IETF folks anyway, so do take my statements with a grain of salt...
> 
> What do we think about Tuesday? I'll need to reserve a room with our friends in the IETF Secretariat before long.
> 
> Lloyd, I know you mentioned the Mozilla offices as a possibility, but I don't know how far they are from the IETF venue. I've heard that London is a big town. :P
> 
> Peter
> 
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