[UCLA-LUG] VA Research Speaker

[Ted Kremenek]

witten@torsion.org wrote:

> Okay, here's my opinion. In order to accommodate people who may not be very
> near UCLA, I suggest that we do it on a weekend so as to maximize
> attendance. So possible dates would be: October 23, October 30, November 6,
> or November 13. I think October 30 or November 6, being around "5th week"
> and thus hopefully in between people's midterms, might be the good bets as
> far as UCLA attendance goes. (But there's always going to be someone with a
> midterm on just about any given day.) Then we just have to make sure there's
> not a big sports game on the day we choose.

Does anyone know where we can find out information about what athletic
events are being held on these days?  I suppose we could check the Central
Ticket Office website.  Does anyone else have a preference on dates?  What
about rooms?

One other thing to think about is that when planning the event we need to
figure out parking arrangements for people coming from outside of UCLA. 
We might be able to reserve parking, but this may come at a price (which I
mean literally in dollars).  If we are to reserve parking, we need to have
an approximate idea of how many people we would like to come.  We should
also approximate how many people from UCLA would be coming.  In other
words, we need to decide now about how big or small we want to make the
event, and aim for that.  These details are necessary not only for
reserving the room, but also for pulling the event off well.

- Ted Kremenek