[ale] Future Meeting space

Wed Aug 1 07:24:01 EDT 2001

I think KSU would be great.  Dr. North tends to be
very open to new ideas and takes a proactive approach
to running the CS dept at KSU...I think it would be
great to have his support.

The drawback of KSU may be its location.  The nice
thing about Home Depot is that it's on the Perimeter,
which is at least somewhat accessible to everyone. 
The problem with holding meetings up one of the
interstates (85, 75) is that you effectively isolate
everyone that lives on one by holding meetings on the
other.  There's no quick way to get from 85 to 75 or
vice versa.  Not to mention those on the south side.

Any ideas on geographical dispersion of members?  It
would be interesting to have everyone send their
current location to the list and then compile the
results.  I guess the best place will be somewhere
that most of us can reach easily and often (taking
facilities into consideration as well).  

All things being equal, I'd choose KSU.

John

--- Eric_Brubakken at aoncons.com wrote:
> 
> 
> I would definitely like to see something closer to
> my part of the world and KSU
> would really work out nice!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> on 07/31/2001
> 08:08:18 PM
> 
> To:   ale at ale.org, eric.ayers at mindspring.com
> cc:    (bcc: Eric Brubakken/NBSG/Aon Consulting)
> 
> Subject:  Re: [ale] Future Meeting space
> 
> 
> 
> I have talked with the College of Science and Math's
> Dean, Dr. Larry
> Peterson, about meeting here at Kennesaw State
> University in our
> building.  He is all for it and even asked if we
> needed refreshments!  I
> had forwarded my email to the CSIS dept. and a
> professor there, Dr. Max
> North, is interested in spearheading the issue.  I
> think Max would like
> to have a group of CSIS students host the meeting. 
> Anyway, the bottom
> line is that we probably can have the auditorium
> which holds about 150+
> people and is wired for video, sound, digital input,
> and so on.  I'll
> get back tomorrow with more specific info from Max,
> but that is it for
> now.  Dr. Peterson is very interested in creating
> some relationships
> between the College of Science and Math and the IT
> community in
> Atlanta.  I'd personally love to have ALE meet here
> since I'd get to
> attend meetings!  I do understand the
> distance/traffic problems we have
> and am interested in helping with a virtual type
> meeting.  You know we
> could easily broadcast the audio and limited frame
> rate video from here
> with no problem.  Our campus backbone is going to
> Gigabit right now.  We
> have, I believe, a T-3 for our Peachnet feed and
> possible a much larger
> connection from Sprint coming in.  The College of
> Science and Math is
> going to a fast switched environment as soon as the
> campus backbone
> upgrade is complete.  So we will be cookin' big time
> here on bandwidth.
> Everyone please think about this virtual meeting
> thing combined with
> meeting here.  I think that might work.
> 
> Another more practical option is to develop a
> meeting at Emory, a
> meeting at KSU, and another meeting place Southwest
> of Atlanta around
> the airport.  That way we would give everyone a
> chance to come.  Just
> rotate around every three meetings.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Dan Newcombe wrote:
> >
> > Back in October, I talked to a Linux fan who
> worked in Ga Tech's College
> > of Computing, and he was mystified as to why ALE
> left, and said that
> > providing space shouldn't be a problem.  Perhaps
> we should look into
> > "returning home"???
> >
> > I'm all for anything that moves it closer to the
> south side of Atlanta :)
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> >
> > > We cannot use HD facilities past August.  So
> this search is necessary for
> > > the group.
> > >
> > > Chris Woodruff
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "aaron" <aaron at pd.org>
> > > To: "ALE list" <ale at ale.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:24 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Future Meeting space
> > >
> > >
> > > Previously, Deb typed into the ether:
> > > > I am not sure who to contact regarding this.
> So, I will post it here.
> > > > I spoke with Chris Farris at the ALE meeting
> on July 12th about
> > > > holding future meetings at Emory University
> School of Law, We have a
> > > > few classrooms that would meet our needs. I
> need to find out soon so I
> > > > can put in a reservation for one of the large
> classrooms. I have been
> > > > verbally approved for a room but have to turn
> in the paper work so it
> > > > is official and no one else gets the room.
> > >
> > > While Emory is literally a couple blocks from my
> home and holding
> > > the ALE meetings there would be -extremely-
> convenient for me, I have to
> > > say that I find the Home Depot facility a very
> comfortable, very classy
> > > meeting site (and well worth the 30 minute drive
> :).
> > >
> > > Unless the use of that HD facility is getting
> somehow problematic,
> > > temporary or tenuous, I would raise my hand for
> staying there.
> > >
> > > Also, from what I've observed of attendance over
> the several months I've
> > > been a meeting participatant, any alternative
> site would need to  be big
> > > enough to accomodate 50 to 70 people. Having a
> data/video projection
> > > system and, ideally, some PA sound support are
> kind of a requisite as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Just my nickle on the topic...
> > >
> > > peace
> > > (after justice)
> > > aaron
> > >
> > > >  Harold Bieber
> > > >  Emory University School of Law
> > > >  404-727-7193
> > > >  hbieber at law.emory.edu
> > > --
> > > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with
> "unsubscribe ale" in message
> > > body.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with
> "unsubscribe ale" in message
> body.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with
> "unsubscribe ale" in message body.
> 
> --
>
__________________________________________________________
> Dow Hurst                   Office: 770-499-3428
> Systems Support Specialist  Fax:    770-423-6744
> 1000 Chastain Rd.
> Chemistry Department SC428 
> Email:dhurst at kennesaw.edu
> Kennesaw State University        
> Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
> Kennesaw, GA 30144
> *********************************
> *Computational Chemistry is fun!*
> *********************************
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with
> "unsubscribe ale" in message body.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with
> "unsubscribe ale" in message body.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.