Great British Meet Up 2005

[PinkSpider]

Newcastle you southern bastards.

-Craig
I live in the North (Hull) and Newcastle is still a good few hours away I seem to remember


www.gbax.com

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I suggest either Manchester, London or Leeds (or Hull ).

 

[DJWillis]

Bath again, at least I can help organise that .

 

[johncross85]

Pah, let your fellow european neighbours in on the game too, let's all meet in The Netherlands

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Hmmm... I'm liking this idea! An Easyjet flight to Amsterdam would be cheaper than a train ticket to London. Of course York is very nice this time of the year too...

J(ohn)

 

[meandu229]

up north somewhere like newcastle,, or middlesbrough,, then i can come cause i cant be bothered to go all the way to the south the poll should have been wwt region would you like it

 

[spray]

as DJWillis kind of points out, the location should really be located near the person who eventually organises this thing.

 

[ShadowHarlequin]

uh yeah no? not sure ^^;

 

[PinkSpider]

No further north than Hull, Hull is north enough as it is.

Leeds would be good, erm I dunno... the meet im going to on the board of biffo is in London and im crashing at a guys house, the next is in Leeds and im going to have to navigate my drunk ass to the train station which should be nice.

Also I make the point im not attending if im gonna be sober, im a social guy but without a few drinks it would be odd. Sigh.

 

[declaration]

London isnt necessarily the best for Euro users.

There are plenty of airports up north with budget airlines.
Plus a ferry from Holland to Hull is dirt cheap and easy.

 

[kknd_cf]

Bath again, at least I can help organise that .

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Woohoo, my Dad could drive me there.
When should this one be? I think it would be best if it was in the Summer holidays as a lot of board members are still in education.

 

[finty]

As long as Easyjet flies to it I'll attend, but don't base it in London, rooms would be expensive as fuck.

 

[CABBAGES]

have it in scotland and i will go . London takes 5 and a half hours to get to from here <_< . I onc emissed my train home from london and it cost me 90 odd quid for a single home .

 

[LHC]

Do it in Autumn and I'll attend. Leeds sounds good.

edit: as long as you promise not to rape me

 

[PinkSpider]

Not even a little?

Erm, Finty... you dont need a room, the streets are fun to wander around

Or if it was in Hull a couple of people could crash maybe if my mum pisses off.

 

[look]

meetups make you gay

 

[shattenjäger]

Would a venue colse to a train station somewhere be handy? Anywhere seems to be accessible by train nowadays an saves on petrol and drink drivin.
Was thinkin Manchester mite b cool but its kinda scary. Theres also places with airports 2 consider 4 foreigners.

 

[Mark]

Manchester does seem like a good idea, especially Piccadily. Then there's a train station from the airport to Picadily I believe.

I must say it's a horrid, grey smokey place though, and that's from someone who lives in Stoke. Wouldn't really matter if in a booked room though.

 

[LHC]

A geek meet in Manchester seems fairly foolish.

At least we wouldn't have to go to some shithole sweaty nightclub full of poor people because we are all proper internet types.

 

[meandu229]

newcastle,, airport,trainstation,, handy place to get to,,relativly cheap hotels,, home of newcy brownn,, wat more you guys want

 

[Bingo Jesus]

I would say that Manchester, Bristol or Newcastle are always fairly good places to hold any meet up. They all also have good rail/plane links and iare fairly (sorta) central. I would say that if we want to any progress in this plan we need to delegate responsibility for organising the event to one person who's fairly responsible and a prominent member of the community, I would suggest either of the shop owners, either craigx or nigelibrown would be good people to organise it.

I would say that whoever organises it gets the pick of the venue which is easiest for them.

 

[PinkSpider]

Manchester seems good to me, and I dont look like a geek so I will be fine Also its 45mins away from my grannies