[Balug-admin] your mail (promoting BALUG meeting(s) - 7:00p, "not" 7:10p)

[jim stockford]

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
>> <johnmark@johnmark.org>,
>>>     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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