Candidate Locations re Corporations:

Nokia (Irving)

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  Contact: Travis Farral works at Nokia and is a member of NTLUG.  You could contact him through Chris Cox.
  Cost: Free
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This is where NTLUG has their meetings. They have the rooms, I'm pretty sure you can bring in pizza and drinks there (the NTLUG Installfest does every year). Not sure about storage. Travis Farral works at Nokia and is a member of NTLUG. You could contact him through Chris Cox.

??? (Lincoln Center)

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DFWUUG used to meet in one of the towers long ago.

Fluke ??? (??? location ???)

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Southwestern Bell (training facility on Royal)

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(John Dyer) I have checked with Southwestern Bell (no response).

IBM (Irving on 635 off Luna Road)

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They used to host the OS/2 Users Group.

Blake Mitchell has spoken with them about a presentation and also asked about meeting there. He was told that no meetings after business hours are permitted.

Citi Group

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If anyone has contacts at Citi Group, I know they have facilities but don't know whether they would welcome us.

Nerdbooks

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  Contact: David Henley (owner)
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I stopped by their store in early November before the storefront was ready. People could shop around in his warehouse at the time. Mentioned need for new meeting place and he expressed interest. The store will have a coffee bar area. But I'm not sure how suitable the place would be. Meeting in the storefront area would not be very private. The warehouse area is quite large, but to be useable, he would need to partition sections off so his things don't start disappearing. Unless he had a large-enough staff, I'm not sure he'd want to handle up to 100 people coming in and out. But wouldn't hurt to give him a call.