[Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

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Dear Chickeners,

Having just moved into a much larger house than I previously lived in
(one large enough to have an actual guest room, plus a playroom for the
kids that we're equipping as a second guest room, and a big lounge!), I
hereby offer to host a Chicken meetup sometime this summer! We can
easily sleep quite a lot of people here (particularly if they bring
sleeping bags).

The location is Gloucester, which is about an hour and a half from
London by train. As well as having a few days' hacking, we should find
time to go and visit some of the lovely attractions of the area, such as
the legendary cheese shop in Cheltenham, or peering at GCHQ, which is
Europe's largest supercomputer centre (through a barbed-wire fence,
while watched suspiciously by armed guards), or going for strolls in the
Cotswold countryside.

And I must warn everyone that my wife is planning to bake Chicken-themed
cakes and biscuits.

I am open to suggestions for dates. Should I avoid the Olympics, as
travel will presumably be more expensive then? Or should I coincide with
the Olympics, as people might want to come over to the UK for them
anyway, and sneak in a few days in Gloucester amongst it all? Who would
like to come, and when can they get time off?

I'd recommend we make it a long weekend, so we can fit in a good mixture
of hacking and adventuring! But people are welcome to stay for longer if
there's interest :-)

ABS

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Alaric Snell-Pym
http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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