Ubuntu-Chicago Meeting Planner

[Andrew Bassett]

To expand on this - I personally think Des Plaines area is great for
something like this (No, I don't live in Des Plaines :) ). 90 and 294
are real close, there is a Blue Line stop, Metra and even O'hare :) 
Another nice thing is that parking at the hotel shouldn't be an issue. 

Not to knock on the people that live downtown, but there needs to be
some sort of compromise in the middle of the suburbanites and the
downtown folks. Maybe we could switch between a centrally located
suburban location and somewhere in Chicago.

I'd also like to thank Jason for his work in all of this.

-AB

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 17:34 -0500, Jason Czajkowski wrote:
> We all know that this is the CHICAGO Ubuntu group and all though the
> location isn't in the "Heart" of the city it is still only 3 mins away
> from The Chicago City Limits and close to "City" transportation. We're
> trying to make it possible for both the people of the city and the
> people of the suburbs (nixternal in Aurora) to make it to these
> events. That's why we've been trying to arrange things in the middle.
> Of course, we'll make are way into the city at some point. But, we're
> gonna have to get some people intrested in the first place. When we
> had our first meeting only 1 or 2 people complained that it wasn't "In
> the City" that was only 20% if there was more intrest and motivation
> then we could hold it "downtown" but then you'd have people from the
> suburbs complaining. It's a No-Win situation and I hate to see people
> no get involved because it's not close enough for them. If anyone
> needs a ride from the River Road Train station (Blue Line) that day
> I'll be more then happy to pick them up. 
> 
> Jason
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Thanks,

Andrew Bassett
andrew at abassett.org