<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On 26 Mar 2013, at 11:11, Justin Mitchell <<a href="mailto:justin@discordia.org.uk">justin@discordia.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">32 subscribed to this mailing list.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">25 following the facebook page.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></blockquote></div><br><div><div>Thats not a bad start.</div><div><br></div><div>I would say the obvious places to canvas would be the Met and the University.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm up for it if anyone wants to organise a time, perhaps someone there at each campus would point us in the right direction. Students Union perhaps?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, are there any engineering groups, associations or organisations in this area of Wales?</div><div><br></div><div>*plug* I run the South West Big Data meetup in Bristol we are close to 160 members now and we started last year with 4 people in a cafe. We have had companies like LinkedIn, The Guardian, Mclaren and HP to talk at our events. Sorry for the shameless namedropping but every group has to start somewhere!</div><div><br></div><div>Also, with new members come opportunities for spaces! Perhaps it would be better to talk about spaces once there are more interested members.</div><div><br></div><div>:)</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></div></body></html>