[TriLUG] RTI as a meeting place?

[Roy Vestal]

If you want to use the RTI space, you need to find a room sponsor within 
RTI. Their policies haven't changed.

With that said, I don't have any contacts there that would be 
interested. I would suggest contacting the office of the CIO.

Former RTI space sponsor,
-Roy

On 7/11/12 9:52 PM, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Yeah, I loved the RTI space.  Several factors contributed to our leaving.
>
> As stated, we totally outgrew the space, for the last several months we
> were there, it was standing room only, and on at least one occasion I bet
> we were in violation of some sort of code.
>
> Our sponsor left the company, and then the guy who stepped up to be our
> sponsor left too...
>
> And finally they were tearing down the building we were meeting in to
> rebuild, and they apparently either didn't have, or weren't interested in
> having us in any other space on their campus.  (The story I was always told
> was that they didn't have any other space of that size.)
>
> All that being said, I bear no ill will to RTI for the moving away.  And I
> do know that RH is moving to new space 'soon' - so I wonder if our SC
> should investigate the space from RTI...
>
> CJK
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Neil L. Little wrote:
>>
>>   Perhaps that went on in the background beyond my notice. It was my
>>> understanding that we out grew the meeting place. I do remember all the
>>> folks stacked along the walls month after month.
>>>
>> I wasn't going to TriLUG meetings during this period, so there's a missing
>> piece for me too. NCSA was having the opposite problem, so if crowding was
>> the problem with TriLUG at RTI, they should have loved having NCSA.
>>
>> The message we got from RTI was that educational meetings, unless for the
>> benefit of RTI staff, weren't part of their mission.
>>
>> I just remember appearing at RTI one night and we weren't allowed in.
>> Communications within NCSA weren't well organised at the time and I expect
>> several people let the ball drop. But the thing I took away was RTI's
>> attitude about things that didn't directly benefit RTI.
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
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