[DC LoCo] release party at the woodner ballroom?

[Lawrence Guyot]

Kevin,

I'm a regular reader. Food and non-alcoholic drinks are no problems. The
event unfortunately would have to be dry.The project for the remote desktops
is still active, so if anyone has any alternatives to nomachine.com I'd
really appreciate any feedback.


Regards,

Lawrence Guyot
ETTE, Inc.
3636 16th Street NW Unit J
Washington, DC 20010
Office: 202.345.1965 | Cell: 202.344.7412 | Fax: 202.330.4599
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http://www.ette.biz | http://ette.mobi | http://www.dcrentalspace.com



On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:10, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
>
> > maybe the woodner ballroom would be a nice place for a release party.
> > lawrence guyot tells me he can offer it to us for free. to my thinking,
> > having the party on saturday, may 1, makes sense.  i'm just too busy on
> > weekdays -- and too tired by the end of the day.
> >
> > i could be at the ballroom from 4 pm to 9 pm on saturday, may 1. with the
> > 15 linux mint stations he has, and if people brought laptops, we could
> have
> > a lot of spontaneous show-and-tell sessions.
>
> I forget what his feelings about food / drink events were but the
> thought had also occurred to me -- and then slipped my mind. Methinks
> it's an excellent idea. Not exactly on a rail line but the 16th Street
> buses are fairly frequent.  Almost due east of Cleveland Park metro
> (but that doesn't look convenient) and due west of Georgia Avenue /
> Petworth Metro... though its around 0.8 miles on foot if "The
> Authority" ;-) is to be belived.  Not bad. Geeks need more exercise.
> ;-)
>
> For the rest of you...  Consumate networker that he is, Phil
> introduced me to Lawrence Guyot who owns a fairly successful tech
> consulting business, and has scored the former ballroom of the Woodner
> apartment buildings as his office space.  He's looking to do well by
> doing good, and is increasingly interested in offering support for
> Linux and Linux-based solutions.  (He was recenltly looking at Linux
> remote desktop solutions to support 32 people scattered across the
> country with the potential to scale to 500.  He was looking at
> nomachine.com, and I'm sorry to say, I didn't pursue that with him as
> much as I'd intended.  Thoughts on solutions welcomed.) As Phil
> mentioned above, Lawrence is currently running Mint on a bunch of
> boxes.  The ballroom has a huge white wall suitable for projection,
> and overlooks Rock Creek Park.
>
> The downside for some... If we want to do this right, we'll probably
> need to do it dry.  Arc (or others), I forget: Has HacDC had to deal
> w/ liquor licenses, minors, etc?  Are the rules different if we're not
> paying for the space and it's a "BYOB" sort of thing?  As Celeste
> mentioned, not all are of drinking age, and for an event like this, an
> established place of food and drink would be better equipped to handle
> such issues.
>
> Regarding free use of his space: He's looking for, in my words, not
> necessarily his, "less incorporated, and doing sustainable ongoing
> good work".  The more incorporated, and for-profit, the less likely
> one is to get the space for free.
>
> Details (including site video, floorplan and specs):
>
>    3636 16th Street NW, Ballroom, Washington, DC 20010 202.345.1965
>    http://www.dcrentalspace.com/dceventspace_Facility-Description.html
>    https://www.ette.biz/
>
> Even if we opt not to this gig there, try to keep it in mind for some
> events (InstallFest perhaps?), since I think it would be good for us
> and good for Lawrence, which will lead to future goodness.
>
> P.S. He joined the mailing list about two months back, though I don't
> know if he's a regular reader... So, Lawrence, any thoughts? ;-)
>
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