Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:14:52 -0800
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: Re: [Llg-members] LLG Annual Meeting - agenda hiccup for 25th
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:27:17PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>Would any of you attend?  (Mark Shoulson, John Cowan, and Pierre
> >>are the only ones that I know are reasonably close to DC among
> >>you, and Pierre may not be if he takes a job further away.)
> >>
> >>What kind of budget would you support - something akin to the
> >>$1000 dollars we allotted to Robin for last summer's LogFest is
> >>the most that I would contemplate seeking, but I'm not sure how
> >>to spend even that amount wisely, given my limited experience.
> >>
> >>Further ideas, interest, commitments, appreciated.  And if you
> >>don't think we can or should do this, then that also should be
> >>spoken.
> >>
> >>Is anybody out there?  Does anybody care?
> >
> >I am out there, and I care, but I am crushingly busy due to
> >twins.
> >
> >If a firm plan is made, *SOON*, I will do my best to show up, but
> >the window in which I can plan and purchase tickets for this sort
> >of thing is closing rapidly.  I am otherwise uninvolved, I'm
> >afraid.
> 
> Since you talk to Ali, perhaps you can find out why he wants to
> hold the event midweek, and not on the weekend.

Because it's the actual anniversary.

> Perhaps he doesn't realize how much this limits attendance.  Even
> Nora will be limited, and she lives here, but she cannot count on
> being able to take off work that week.

I did try to tell him that; I'm not sure why he didn't take it
seriously.

-Robin

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