UK Amiga gathering??

Some of you may have seen posts in other Amiga forums, but didn't want to leave this portion of webspace out just in case somebody had anything to add.

I have enjoyed the Big Bashes that have been organised by the Amiga guys in Peterborough and wish there could be more, but somehow doubt there will be.

In their place I am looking to hold a similar sized event in the Midlands (Coventry) which is quite a central location and should be fairly easy to get to being just off the M6 and not far away from the M1 etc

I am looking to hold the event at the end of Oct / beginning November and wondered who would be interested in attending?

I am trying to persuade as many people as possible to pledge their commitment to the meeting at our usergroups website http://midlandamigagroup.info This information will then be presented to various interested exhibitors and should be enough to persuade them to travel over to the UK.

I look forward to hearing from anybody and welcome any suggestions.

Cheers
Luke Stowe (Niceguy1979)

@niceguy1979

Hello Luke, nice to see you still around,

A lot of people are dying for an Amiga Gathering, however, my standpoint is that there is absolutely no point in organising a get together until we are at a point when we can get a dealer or two to turn up and sell OS4.x and hardware to go with it.

There's nothing new to see otherwise.

EDIT: Moved To a different Forum, it was in "Free For all" which cannot be seen by members and non members unless set in Settings.

@niceguy1979
count me in, I can't make Pianeta Amiga this year so Coventry will have to do.

@niceguy1979

I can see Mikey_C's point, but theres been nothing for us Brit Amigans for ages, so count me in.

@niceguy1979

Count me in too. Who knows there might even be some new Hardware by then?

TrevorD

@niceguy1979

We are more than happy to support this event.

@niceguy1979

So hqave you posted this elsewhere?

I'll be there, ITR, AmigaOne and hopefully Chris in tow...

Chris?

Rude!

This may turn out to be a good time to hold an event.

Put me down for some of it

Simon

@Rigo

hmmmm

Do you know something we don't ?

@Outcast

If anything new hasppens, i'll come and maybe do a webcast live from the event. (if they want me to do a live webcast)
But otherwise, I ain't going

@Outcast

I'm just thinking that it's a quiet period for me, so it would fit nicely in with my plans

Simon

You never know, if I happen to have some spare time around then I might pop over from Dublin :D

@niceguy1979

Yep, count me in for sure!

@Rudei

(delayed response) Yes.

I suppose I'll be needing to demo NetSurf on your A1!

@All

thanks for all the positives. We've had some interest from companies offering their support.

Amigakit is going to make it over and set up shop to sell 4.1 along with a host of others.

Firstly, to persuade the exhibitor I need to bring in large numbers of people. It's kind of 'chicken or egg' situation so I have set up a pledge page on the MAG website. It's a way to show big companies that it's worth attending. If you want to attract big names to the show please go over and pledge your attendance!

I am still trying to set the date. With any luck it should be the first weekend in November. Fingers crossed.

Luke (Niceguy1979)

http://midlandamigagroup.info

@Chris

It has been suggested (by Individual Comuters in fact) that we have seminars.

Would you be interested in running a seminar/demo of NetSurf?

@niceguy1979

It's ok by me for you to refer it as "MAG - Big Bash"... Dunno how other 3Caggers feel about it though ?

It keeps the Big-Bash Emblem in peoples minds

@Outcast

I have tried not to use the term big-bash myself, but i think the 'spirit' of it is still there.

I don't mind what people call it as long as they pledge on the site to encourage the exhibitors to attend.

http://www.midlandamigagroup.info/bash.htm

@niceguy1979

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If I'm there anyway, with NetSurf, then I'm quite happy to do a demo. I take it the venue will have some form of Internet access?