[ale] LUG at GT Meeting - 2010.10.06 - Video Encoding

Tue Oct 5 00:20:09 EDT 2010

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:56:02PM -0400, Richard Faulkner wrote:
>    I for one have to say, "thank you" for this thread.  I was considering
>    attending these
>    meetings which look to be very interesting.  But, considering that there
>    is no parking
>    and getting around sounds like a nightmare -- I don't think I want to take
>    the time to
>    come in from Gwinnett and struggle to find parking let alone have to trek
>    great distance
>    to get there.  Too bad....

Huh?  What's the "too bad" for?  Are you trying to make me, the leader
of a group which has nothing to do with the Georgia Tech administration,
feel bad for something we have absolutely no control over?

Notwithstanding that, it's really not that bad.  I pointed out a link to
a parking lot that's maybe 800 to 1000 feet from where the meeting is.
It's $1.50 an hour if I'm not mistaken, so maybe $3 to attend the
meeting.  It was also pointed out that one could park elsewhere along
the Trolley route and take that to the Klaus building.  Ever since they
fired all the old drivers, the new ones are very nice and give decent
tours as they drive around.

I can't make you come to the meeting, and we do post slides online
afterwards for your perusal, but really, despite the complaints I keep
hearing from ALErs, it's not so terrible.

I think many of the complaints in this thread more directly address the
annoyances caused by pedestrian-only campuses for people who are
regularly trying to do things hastily on campus.  Driving down here once
a week and paying for parking and then walking a little ways?  That
really can't be too bad.

And I promise... if there was anything I could do about it, I would.

>    -----Original Message-----
>    From: Tom Freeman <[1]tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
>    Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
>    To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <[2]ale at ale.org>
>    Subject: Re: [ale] LUG at GT Meeting - 2010.10.06 - Video Encoding
>    Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>  You know - if a campus is a "couple miles" across, and the
>  powers that be want people to access it, the powers that be
>  really need to consider a jitney/shuttle bus/automated bumper car
>  service for those with largish loads etc. I really am all for
>  people walking to and from, but after 20 minutes mechanical
>  assistance is appreciated when in a hurry!
> 
>  On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> 
>  > Same thing is happening at LSU.  They're closing the center of the
>  > campus (there's a huge ring around the middle of the quad-area that
>  > is now completely closed off) and forcing in their "master plan"
>  > for it to become an all-walking campus.
>  >
>  > For a campus that's a couple miles from end-to-end, that's a little
>  > odd to me.
>  >
>  > --jms
>  >
>  >
>  > On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >       On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Curtin
>  >       <[3]ryan at igglybob.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >             And yes, it should be noted that while I
>  >             did say "the parking situation
>  >             at Tech has never been easy" I meant maybe
>  >             in the last ten or fifteen
>  >             years.
>  >
>  > Ryan
>  >
>  > The parking sucked in 1980 when I first attended GT. Then
>  > they build "the flood lot" under the tennis courts and the
>  > first heavy rain drowned 40 cars on the bottom floor. Parking
>  > pass then was around $20/quarter.
>  >
>  > "Walking campuses" are the current craze in college planning.
>  > They do leave access roads for delivery and police but want
>  > all else closed. Then they wonder why the big meetings get
>  > held off campus.
>  >
>  > At least Tech has the buses.
>  >
>  > --
>  > --
>  > James P. Kinney III
>  > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk
>  > effortlessly in chains.
>  >
>  >
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