[kwlug-disc] In-person meeting location change

[Ron Singh]

As mentioned back in Sept 2023, free parking is available to"your geeky
computer friends" by my office landlord. His words!
It's free until I retire from all that IT stuff(44 years is quite enough)
which is quite likely in 2027 sometime.

See details here --
- 368 Phillip Street, My office is # 3, office door has a ghetto paper
sign, slightly torn, proudly proclaiming "Group 4"
- About 18 parking spaces, a 12-min walk to Davis Centre, well 15 minutes
at my pace.
- The parking spaces are available from 6:30PM to whenever.

Directions here -
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/368+Phillip+Street,+Waterloo,+ON/University+of+Waterloo+Davis+Centre+Library,+200+Ring+Rd,+Waterloo,+ON+N2L+5Z5/@43.475239,-80.5463313,1125m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x882bf3ff1e1f283f:0x590d77ad166862e7!2m2!1d-80.5398559!2d43.4778314!1m5!1m1!1s0x882bf401b75d49ef:0xbfcdb8b1e5ec45c4!2m2!1d-80.542001!2d43.4729293!3e2!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Forgive me for not using OpenStreetMAP, seems I am too sloshed at the
moment to use it.

Ron S.



On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> I will be including this in the October kwlug-announce post, but
> wanted to give kwlug-disc members a heads up. For the next few months
> (and maybe longer) we will be moving the KWLUG in-person meeting
> location to the Davis Centre Library at the University of Waterloo
> (instead of the Dana Porter library, where we were meeting before).
> I wrote up the new meeting location here: https://kwlug.org/node/1455
>
> Thanks to Lori for helping get our meeting room changed (and for
> hosting us at UW).
>
> The Dana Porter library location was not bad, but that library now
> closes at 9pm, which makes timing of our meetings awkward. There were
> a bunch of ways we could have resolved this (starting earlier,
> shortening the meeting time, scheduling only one topic per meeting,
> moving to Builders Club) but as an unelected autocrat who has gone
> mad with power I figured this change would be the least headachy. If
> all goes well this room change will work out okay for the LUG; if it
> is a disaster then maybe (hopefully?) I will be overthrown in a
> military coup.
>
> Questions for the adoring masses:
>
> - Are the directions to the new space clear enough?
> - I know that parking has been an issue at UW. Have there been
>   in-person attendees who have been driving there? Does this room
>   change make your parking situation better or worse?
> - What other comments about the in-person meeting space(s) do you
>   have?
>
> Thank you for your attention to this matter!!
>
> - Paul
>
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