Am 20. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:50 AM, der.hans wrote: > By the way, that "huge" room, > is called the Eagle Room. > Just "FYI". Ah, based on the site I thought it was the Roadrunner room. I'll update the event. > You might want to also "consider" what the web > site should say about the start / end times. > > The library (whole building) closes at 21:00 > -- "shut tight as the door of a full flight at PHX > where they have already bumped some of the > passengers who had reservations" -- > > ...so, it is misleading to leave the "22:00" there. Not a biggie, but OK. > As far as, the *start* time, I realize that we may be > trying to avoid inconveniencing those who do not > get off work until a certain time... > so maybe leaving 19:00 is appropriate. Yup. > But maybe we should at least "mention" that the > room is reserved starting at 18:00, so just in case We always want to have the room open a half hour before the mtg starts. An extra half hour is fine. >> We also need it for next month if possible. > > As of the last time I checked (circa July 6) (when I made the resv. for July > 22), both the large room (Eagle) and the medium-size room (Hummingbird, > which we used in June 2009) were already "booked" for the 4th Wed. of Aug., > so ... Ah. OK, we'll have to make other arrangements for next month. > Maybe ACAA will be available by then? Unlikely. I believe it's the first week of classes, so they'll be busy. > if not, then > would we consider making a one-time change to the > custom of having the W side meeting on the "4th Wed. of the month" -- ? Better a temporary location than a temporary night. If all else fails we'll go straight to food next month. Well, I might not be there if I get enough students for my shell scripting class :). >> Does the huge room have a projector? > I don't know. > But if not, then I might be able to borrow one -- from a guy I know who has > taught several ("non credit") classes that I have taken, and has showed > [during class] both slides and videos, using a projector that was hooked up > to a laptop PC (running an OS that was, um, not Gnu/Linux, and not even BSD > based...). OK. We definitely need a projector this month. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are # better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use # of one's contributions to computer science." -- Donald E. Knuth