[H-GEN] HUMBUG meetings and talks

[Ben Fowler]

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On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:32, Clinton Roy wrote:
> Trent WADDINGTON <s337240 at student.uq.edu.au> writes:
> > We came in at 6pm.  
> I'm tempted to suggest you were showing disrespect to the speaker by
> not showing up early, but that would be teasing, and I don't do that
> ;)
>
> The talk could not have started all that early, as Raymond and I were
> getting the seats ready at only a few minutes to six, so we're
> quibbling about only a few minutes.

Actually, if I remember correctly, I was off chatting with somebody and
then I got a reminder from Ray to start getting underway with the talk. 
This was at about 5 minutes to the hour, IIRC.

> That the talk was announced on such short notice is very unusual,
> normally there's at least a week of notice. However, if another talk
> presents itself at such late notice, we'll still take advantage of it.

Right, normally, we have a fair amount of notice for talks, normally at
least 5-7 days, preferably longer.  There, however, have been a couple
of occasions where talks were only confirmed very, very close to when
they were due to be presented, so the late notice cannot be helped. 
This was such a case. 

(This time, I had been so preoccupied with work and other (personal)
issues, that I completely forgot to make the announcement, and Ray
stepped in and made the announcement before it was too late.  Sorry if I
put anybody out by this.)

> (As it happens, Tobi seems quite happy and enthusiastic with how the
> talk went).
> 
> I'm sorry if the events of Saturday didn't turn out for you Trent (and
> partner) and we'll make sure talks start on the dot in future. We'll
> continue to do our best to arrange the best setup for
> presentations. As for members being respectful, well, that's up to
> them.

Yes, I thought the talk was great.  I think, though, that next time, we
might try and defer questions until the end of the talk -- a bunch of
people including myself ended up grilling the guy and the talk went from
being a talk to being a talk show :-)

Anyway, apologies if the way I organised the talk put anybody else out
-- I'll try to be a little more careful.

Have fun people.

-regards,

Ben.

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