[LispSea] status of planning the first meeting

Daniel J Pezely djp06 at speakeasy.net
Fri Jun 16 06:24:42 UTC 2006


Our first meeting will be in mid-to-late July.


Details on the legwork:

	A big part of this group is to meet and have some element of an 
interactive session such as a demonstration or live tutorial.

My first pick for location was a classroom at Seattle Central Community 
College.  Some rooms are equipped with video projectors, and these may 
be reserved-- ordinarily.  Currently, however, SCCC is deep into rather 
massive renovations, so this may not work until autumn.

My second pick was a meeting room at the Capitol Hill branch of the 
Seattle Public Library (which was rebuilt a couple of years ago and is 
rather nice).  For this location, however, we must provide our own 
projector.

Unless someone has a projector, I'll arrange to get one.

Suggestions for alternate locations are welcome.


	Drawing upon prior experiences, these types of events seem to draw a 
slightly larger crowd when there's free food (such as pizza) and zero 
cost to attend.

	I'm working on all these factors, so that's what's taking time.  Once 
we get the first couple of meetings behind us, subsequent sessions will 
happen more gracefully.

	As there's a national holiday in early July and many people take 
vacations around then, the meeting would be best towards the latter part 
of the month.  While I realize that puts it a month out, it's actually 
not that far away.

That's the update.

Thanks for your patience, and thanks for participating!
-Daniel

PS - I'll send a separate call for planning the exact day as that time 
approaches.



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