[EdLUG] Vote here too - talk or no talk?

[Tai Kedzierski]

Jan - I thought so, but I thought it wiser to check :-)

Bernard - indeed how dare they! :-p

--Tai

// Sent from a mobile device; rogue typos may be lurking
On 20 Apr 2015 02:00, "Rathgild" <rathgild at gmail.com> wrote:

> Election night has never been a problem for meetings.  People have all day
> to vote, a task that only takes a few minutes, so that shouldn't have any
> impact, and those who are involved with the count will be heading to the
> Conference Centre for around the time the polls close at 10pm, though apart
> from checking in the boxes nothing much happens for the first 30-40 mins.
> Even when Paul was employed as one of the counters he was usually able to
> be at the beginning of the meeting, heading off in time to get to his
> counting station.
>
> Jan
>
> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone
>
>
> ---- Tai Kedzierski wrote ----
>
> Dear all,
>
> The next talk is scheduled for the 7th of May, which also happens to be
> the date of the General Election.
>
> As such, voting may be still be happening in the evening, and there will
> be a televised count going into the wee hours.... not that I think we'll
> notably overlap with any of this, but in case of great enthusiasm/anxiety I
> leave it to you to decide:
>
> Should we keep the meeting or cancel it, thereby rescheduling the talk?
>
> http://doodle.com/t268hfe5qug336dk
>
> (note that any evidently "joke" names will be discounted)
>
>
>
>
> This coming month's talk, should it go ahead, will be delivered by
> Jean-Louis Sougné and will be titled:
>
> *'\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}' : how I learned a language (almost)
> overnight*
>
> http://edlug.org.uk/node/110
>
> *Jean-Louis Sougé will be giving us his insights into the art of leanring
> languages, both programmatic and human (through the examples of LaTeX and
> Portugese), and how the two learning processes compare.*
>
> *Jean-Louis is a Franco-Belge signal-processing geek, polyglot, and
> integrations support engineer at Adobe, "for his sins."*
>
>
>
> *The meeting will be in the back room of the Southsider Pub, West Richmond
> Street, Edinburgh. The talk should kick off shortly after 7:30pm. After the
> talk, there will be time for socializing, with light bites and a chance to
> catch up with attendees.*
>
>
>
>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
>
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>
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