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Any volunteers to run AWS 49?
Nominally sometime in March 2016.
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Might be intrested in running somthing next year. Would need help tho.
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Help is generally available from several of the "old timers". If you have a venue we can hold an AWS! :)
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Will see what I can do
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http://www.abingdonanddistrictconservat ... neave.html

Looking at this venue. Only issue is it lacks many mains sockets. Opinions?
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There'll be enough people turning up with extension leads that it should be able to be worked around - if there's only two for the entire room then that might be a problem, but generally people are resourceful enough to work around that (and these days I just arrive with seven or eight pre-charged battery packs and don't need to plug anything in!)
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Got talking to the guys at the makerspace in Liverpool and have offered us the workshop as a venue. I'll happily help run it if there's interest.
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If you have any idea of the size of the place? That could be pretty good.
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There's a few rooms. One easily big enough for the arena and then 2 rooms in the workshops with a pile of desks where people could set up their bots. I'll get a rough estimate of size Thursday when I'm next there. Best of all they said if it's a not for profit event, we can the space for free.

Here's the Makerspace's website if anyone's interested:

http://doesliverpool.com/
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The only problem I really see is that it's quite far north for an ant event and it may be difficult for a lot of people to get there. I know it's about 4 hours from me so I probably wouldn't be able to get there.
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