maybe let 'em know 6:30 is bar time, i.e. 6:30 to 7:00, gathering to chat, 7:00 herd to the tables.
On May 1, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:
When promoting it (or other BALUG meetings), *please* use 7:00 P.M. as the primary time mentioned regarding the meeting and such.
7:10 P.M. isn't the meeting/dinner start time - that's our cut-off time for dinner - if one doesn't make it by 7:10 P.M., there are no assurances one will be able to join us in our "family style" dinner and/or that we'll be able to get one seated with us.
If 7:10 P.M. is mentioned at all in "promoting" it and such, it ought to say something to the effect that that's the cut-off time for dinner (e.g. the BALUG website presently states it as "Dinner starts promptly at 7:10 PM", or one could state something like: "Be sure to arrive to dinner *before* 7:10 P.M. to ensure you will be able to join us for dinner.").
We do need to move things along pretty much by that schedule (seat folks right around 7:00 P.M., money collected and food starts to flow right around 7:10 P.M.) to allow reasonable time for talk/presentation, and to also avoid awkward table situation (e.g. tables are nicely to rather full - and more folks keep trickling in when the tables are already full and everyone else has already paid up (except the speaker :-)) and is starting to eat.)
Thanks, everyone.
Quoting Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jesse Zbikowski wrote:
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:04:31 -0700 From: Jesse Zbikowski embeddedlinuxguy@gmail.com To: Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com Cc: jim stockford jim@well.com, Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu, balug-admin@lists.balug.org, John Mark Walker
Dick Verna <rverna01@comcast.net>Subject: Re: your mail
On 5/1/07, Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com wrote:
Jim, seems like a good idea to me.
Yep; the Marvell guys have not responded yet so that may sit in the pipeline a while. Can I go ahead and promote this as an Ed Cherlin/OLPC event?
Jesse if Jim confirms that Ed Cherlin will present in May then go ahead and promote the event.
Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com
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