[kwlug-disc] December meeting and Cory Doctorow talk

[Bob Jonkman]

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Actually, I don't see a scheduled Hackernest meeting in December, either.

https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/HackerNestKW/

- --Bob.

On 2017-11-09 12:46 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> I do want to see the presentations planned for KWLUG on 4
> December, and would like to see Doctorow too.
> 
> Happily, there has been no meeting booked yet for KWNPSA for
> December, which was intended to be a social night. So if KWLUG
> moves the meeting to 11 December then KWNPSA will move to another
> night, probably 18 December.
> 
> Hackernest starts late and goes to the wee hours, so we can all 
> straggle from KWLUG to Hackernest on the 11th, for those interested
> in free beer for $10.
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> 
> 
> On 2017-11-09 12:12 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> As discussed at the meeting, the University of Waterloo is
>> hosting Cory Doctorow for a talk during the evening of Monday,
>> December 4, which just happens to be our KWLUG meeting time.
> 
>> Originally we had planned to defer the meeting and just go to the
>>  Doctorow talk instead. But it looks like this will be awkward or
>>  impossible, because I have received word that the talk is
>> intended for current Math/CS faculty people at UW. They have
>> booked the Modern Languages Theatre (which seats 400 people) but
>> they expect this to "sell out" with just Math/CS people.
> 
>> They may be open to letting others in after Math/CS people have 
>> had first dibs on getting tickets, but they might not do this,
>> and we would not find this out until days before the KWLUG
>> meeting.
> 
>> What do the rest of us do? Apparently plans are in the works for
>>  Doctorow to do an afternoon event (maybe 3pm?) at the KPL. That
>>  reading should be open to the public (and that auditorium seats
>>  another 200 people). This sucks for people who have jobs 
>> (including me, who will have the privilege of missing both 
>> appearances) but is an option for those who can get the
>> afternoon off.
> 
> 
>> The question now is what to do about the December meeting. Both
>> of our presenters would prefer attending the Doctorow talk
>> instead of doing their own presentations, but if they cannot get
>> in then probably they will present for us as a second best
>> option.
> 
>> Given this situation I can think of the following strategies:
> 
>> - We can hold the KWLUG meeting as planned, and just expect that
>>  turnout will be lower if the Doctorow talk is opened to the 
>> public. This means that the presenters (and I) are locked into 
>> hosting the meeting on December 4.
> 
>> - We could cheat and move our KWLUG meeting to Dec 11. Then if
>> we are allowed to attend the Doctorow talk we can attend. If we
>> are prohibited from attending we can still go to KWLUG the
>> following week. Unfortunately this has domino effect implications
>> for other meetups, including the nonprofit sysadmin meetup, and
>> maybe HackerNest?
> 
>> - We could cancel the December meeting, which ruins our KWLUG 
>> streak and puts us in the failure mode of being locked out of
>> both the Doctorow talk and KWLUG. I like this option the least.
> 
> 
>> I do not know how to make a decision between these three options.
>>  Maybe the presenters could weigh in? Is there an overwhelming 
>> consensus on what we should do?
> 
>> For selfish reasons (ie being allowed to see Doctorow speak even
>>  though many of you won't) I would prefer moving the meeting to
>> Dec 11, but if the presenters cannot move to that date then this
>> will not work.
> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
>> - Paul
> 
> 
> 
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