I just wrote to Ana about this and she wrote saying that it has been a coincidence that we did not have the upstairs room. The schedule for the near future is:
*Thursday, April 13* (Theater production in theater - actors use the studio up there as their dressing room) - GNU downstairs admin
*Thursday, April 13 *- GNU upstairs room
*Thursday, April 27*- GNU upstairs room
The month of May should still be upstairs unless something comes up. I will notify you in advance!
I will ask her if she can consider us "first class" to use the upstairs -- i.e. that we are considered a "pre-existing" meeting that other people (like theator) have to work around. Of course we don't pay, but ... My general feeling is that Warehouse 21 has given me this springboard to turn a hundred or so kids into GNU/Linux users, and they are very supportive, even though they live with horrible logistic and money constraints. I would like it if we could support them as much as possible. For me it's also the case that the times that I do manage coming to nmglug with my busy "single-parent-with-huge-obbligations schedule" are more frequent when it's in the railyard -- I was virtually never able to do SFBCC. As for Ted's points: you are pretty much correct on all of them, but I have suggestions for them: Ted> lighting is so-so Yeah, but if we move upstairs it's better, and we have been replacing some of the many burned out bulbs. Ted> power outlets minimally present Upstairs we can configure that more to our liking and maybe make it permanent. Ted> and seating is limited Upstairs I think we can reconfigure that. Jason's point about the wi-fi is definitely damning. What would y'all say if I proposed to Ana that we take a hard-nosed approach to the wi-fi: we (by "we" I mean SITC, of course :-) ) set it up as we had done once and she is committed to not let random people who know 10% more than her about networks come in and mess it up. I think that if with a tiny bit of work we can do it, then we are supporting something quite nice at W21.