PLEASE NOTE:
The content on this page was last modified in 2001, when
PLUG was searching for a new home for its monthly meetings.
Since then, much of the information below has become outdated,
and should now only be referenced for its historic, and
"institutional memory" value. To determine where an upcoming
PLUG meeting will take place, please see the "Location" column
of the Upcoming Meetings page.
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Options:
Two Liberty Place
1650 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA
- host is moving away August 30th - can only meet there July and August
- potential last minute unavailability
- in center city philadelphia (16th & Market)
- lots of space
- expensive parking (3 blocks away: $7, across street: $9)
- easily accessable by public transportation
- capacity: ~120
- nice classroom setting
- security requires a list of attendees
- Found / hosted by: Beldon
Dominello
Used: Nov 2000, May 2001
555 E. North Lane
Conshohocken, PA 19428
610-862-0404
- potential room scheduling conflicts (bad last minute option)
- conshohocken (24min northwest of center city)
- nice small auditorium, 76 seats, stage
- lots of free parking
- two block walk from SEPTA Spring Mill train station, on the R6 Norristown line
- major local ISP
- not in center city (Conshohocken)
- possible excellent internet access
- Offered by: Avi Freedman
- Hosted by: Michael Toren
Used: June 2001
Towne Pizza & Sub Shop
1900 Pine ST
Philadelphia, PA
215-545-7730
(Normally unused upstairs dining room of pizza shop)
Used: Aug 1999
Never used.
Never used.
Never used.
Never used.
Possibilities:
I've contacted the creators of their Beowulf cluster (Dr. Guillermo Moyna, Dr. Randy J. Zauhar) on 6/25/01 and
asked if they could accomodate us. "I think that it would be no problem,
but I first have to check with the school's administration. I'll keep
you posted." - Guillermo Moyna,
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:19:54 -0400
Right Source
Justin Tobia wrote:
I would be glad to discuss using the Right Source facility located at One
Penn Center, Suburban Station for the Linux User Group. You might not know
that Right Source is the Premier Elite IBM Business Partner in the US and
Canada and IBM Learning Services is trying to foster the use of the Linux
programming protocol in the IBM pSeries Systems (formerly AIx/RS/6000).
Please call me at your earliest convenience.
Best regards,
Justin M. Tobia
Sales Manager
Justin_Tobia@rightsource.com
Right Source Learning Services
11 River Road, 2nd floor
Wilton, CT 06897
Tel: 203-761-7891
Fax: 203-761-0773
Web site: www.rightsource.com/education
Non-options:
Cyberloft - Moved to california with
owner, Mostafa Eldefrawy, by August 1999.
Used: ? - Jul 1999
Philadelphia Free Library - "The Philadelphia Free Library only has one
room, Wednesdays are taken, and
they would want us out by 8:30PM in any case." - Beldon, 3/30/2001
Never used.
University of Pennsylvania has a beautiful lecture hall in which we held our 9/1/99 meeting, but
they decided they want to charge money for our use of it:
up to 50 people $100.00/event
up to 100 people $150.00/event
equipment extra..
Offered / hosted by
Son To.
Used: Sep 1999
IQ Group nolonger exists. Found and originally hosted by Chris McDonough.
Used: Oct 1999 - Oct 2000
Philadelphia Convention Center -
Absolutely beautiful meeting rooms, but decided to start charging us $300 per
meeting starting May of 2001. Arranged by Andrew White of DCA.net.
Used: Dec 2000 - Apr 2001
A136DAS - "Thanks for contacting us.
We do work with Linux, but we will not
be able to provide any seating facilities. We would keep track of the events
and would like to attend." - arijitda@mail.a136das.com
Franklin Institute - "Too expensive -
that's how they make money." - CJF
Mon Jul 2 13:45:02 EDT 2001
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