[UCLA-LUG] VA Research Speaker

[witten@torsion.org]

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:55:13PM -0700, Ted Kremenek wrote:
> 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?

According to www.cto.ucla.edu (which appears to have been designed by
someone with a net connection a little too fast for their own good), October
23 and November 6 are pretty much clear. October 23 has nothing scheduled,
and November 6 just has a "Men's and Women's Basketball Preview Day",
starting at either noon or 4 p.m. (depending on which part of their web site
you choose to believe). The other dates I mentioned have major games.

> 
> 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

I have no idea how we could even begin to estimate attendance without some
sort of web signup form, much like you've done in the past for CSUA events.
But we can't do that until we have a date and a room lined up. Perhaps we
could pick a date, reserve a room that might possibly be too big (like Moore
100), and then request mandatory (free) web registration from all potential
attendees. That'll give us some idea of who's attending and from where.
Equipped with that information, we could tackle the parking situation. Note
that the LUG currently has no funds.

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Dan Helfman
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