[GRLUG] Debian Stable SuperBowl Installfest - date and place ideas

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:38 PM, John Harig <radiodurans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Every few years a great distribution goes stable . . . and Debian 6 Squeeze is slated to go stable Feb 5/6.  Now Feb 6 is Superbowl Sunday, so it might be a great time to meet up at a bar, do an installfest, and those that want to could stay for the game.
>
> On the other hand, it could be a bad thing that it is Superbowl Sunday (kickoff is at 6:30PM), and maybe Valentine's Day weekend Sunday Feb 13 would be better.
>
> There is also the question of where . . . there are 3 places that I thought of:
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> Sunday Feb 6, Uccello's, 2630 East Beltline Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI - there is a happy hour group I see renting out a private room with a big screen and private waitress for $4 a person for 40-45 people starting at 3:30pm.  If I knew how many people were interested at least a week in advance I could tell them to reserve X seats for our group and we could do an installfest and those who wanted to could stay and watch the game. They told me they have wifi.
>
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> Sunday Feb 6, 4pm, Cambridge House, 600 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI.  Downtown with free parking lot open on Sundays. They will have a couple 40 in screens for the game and they have wifi. This would probably be one of the slower pubs that day.
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> Sunday Feb 6, 3pm, Woody's Press Box, 5656 Clyde Park SW Wyoming, MI 49509. Their Superbowl events start at 5pm.
>
> Other choices: Pushing it back to Sunday Feb 13 at any one of those places
> or . . .
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a time and place to have a Debian Stable SuperBowl Installfest?

It's up to Casey, of course, but...have you seen his home^Wgarage theater setup?

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