[Ruby] it is time... where to meet?

[Ali Rizvi]

Long long ago when Amazon Ruby community used to be small we had our monthly
meetings of Seattle.rb at Amazon once a month.

Amazon now has a much larger (and growing) community of ruby-hackers and I
would like to request to consider Amazon.com as a venue of
Seattle.rbmeetings (at least once a month if not weekly).

I would like to suggest two potential venues:

Union Station building (US1) in international district neighborhood
* This is the place we used to have our previous meetings but there were
some limitations.
+ Being at the end of transit tunnel, this building is ideally located for
bus options (even when tunnel is closed)
+ close to Uwajimaya and other food/coffee places
- Parking is sketchy but get's better after 7 PM.
- security needs escort to even get in the building (with more Amazon
attendees this might not be that bad now)

PacMed buidling in Beacon Hill neighborhood
+ Parking should be abundant after 6:30 PM
+ Better security arrangement as you enter
- Limited bus routes to this building
- no coffee/snack options in walking distance

Amazon also has office in The Columbia Building (TCC) in the heart of
downtown but parking would be worse here.

What do you all think about Amazon? Let me know if you have specific
concerns or questions.

Cheers,
Ali

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com>
wrote:

> Come April 1st, Vivace will be closed at its current location for the
> sound transit light rail project (they're taking over this block and
> the block north of it). Because of construction snafus, the new
> location (in the brix condos building north on broadway) will not be
> available for a few months.
>
> So... where to meet?
>
> We could meet at the Yale street Vivace (near REI), Shinka tea, or...
> I'm open to options... but I'd like it to meet the following parameters:
>
> + open late, at least until 9, preferably later. (ie, Seattle Library
> is right out).
> + good coffee or tea, snacks, etc.
> + near good food for dinner options.
> + near good bus options.
> + has ample parking on a tuesday night. (nobody is going to pretend
> that cap hill has parking on a friday--but tuesday is fairly reasonable)
>
> Personally I think shinka is a better option than the yale street
> vivace. The parking down there is a bit sketchy.
>
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