[ug-glug] Still voting (but deadline coming soon) for March 7th meeting location

[Eric Boutilier]

Jess Balint wrote:

>+1 Uchicago
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Jess' vote now puts U of Chicago in the lead.

Anyone else want to vote?

Going once... going twice...

How about we put a deadline of midnight tonight on voting...

(We only had 7 non-Sun people at the February meeting in Itasca, so if 
we do decide to have this one downtown it'll be interesting to see what 
kind of turnout we get.)

Eric



>How about somebody picks, like:
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>Heads - UChicago
>Tales - Other Place
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>Then for an hour, we take inputs of people flipping coins and tally 'em up.
>Then the decision is made. (THEN we can email announce list ;)
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>Jess
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>Boutilier
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>Subject: [ug-glug-announce] Re: [ug-glug] Deciding on a location for
>March7th Meeting
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>Time to flip a coin I think...
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>In the interest of open-ness, it should be an open, online "coin-flip" 
>though.
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>Can someone suggest a good way to do that?
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>Eric
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>boutilier wrote:
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>>[Note: This is somewhat urgent, so I decided to send it to both
>>mail-lists.]
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>>On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Darren Young wrote:
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>>>Any taking on using the facilities here for the meeting? If so, I need
>>>to know soon so I can reserve whatever space is necessary. It's usually
>>>a 2 week window to guarantee requested space so I'd need to know soon if
>>>possible.
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>>Sorry, hopefully we'll be able to decide soon (hopefully by tomorrow).
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>>Regarding the vote for a meeting location: Not many people voted, and
>>unfortunately, by my reckoning we currently have a tie:
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>>Voting for U of C (near downtown):
>>   John Sergent Howard
>>   Darren Young
>>   Hal Wigoda
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>>Voting for Laurus Technologies (Itasca)
>>   Carey Tyler Schug
>>   Russell Rezaian
>>   Chip Bennett
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>>Suggestions anyone? Presumably the low voter turnout is because most
>>people don't have a preference...
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>>I just sent a message to Jim Fiori (out-of-town speaker) to see if he
>>has a strong preference.
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>>Also, here are a couple thoughts on both sides (wanting to be impatial
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>myself):
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>>An argument favoring U of Chicago
>>   - Both of our first two meetings were in the suburbs
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>>An argument favoring Itasca:
>>   - The other speaker is Russell Rezaian and he lives in the suburbs
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