On Sat 24 July 2010 14:35:56 Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I have no objections either - sadly, I was gone all week and failed
to
read this bucket.
I have the contract from the hotel - unfortunately, she sent it to me
in .docx format, so I need to figure out a place to convert that from,
well, "the dark side into the light!". :)
I can send a mail berating them about using docx like I have for all the
newsletters and documents that CIDSE keeps sending me for my classes next
fall? :)
Jokingly,
Ryan
If anyone would like to volunteer that service to me, let me know.
;)
-Robyn
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Steven M. Parrish <smparrish(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 07/21/10 at 09:26am, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:19:23AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>> > I am pleased to report in that after much running around by Adam
>> > McCullough of ASU - he had to obtain signatures and so forth to
>> > reregister ASULUG as a university organization ahead of fall
starting
>> > to be able to book rooms in the spring - we have some
rooms -more
or
>> > less- booked at ASU's Memorial Union.
>> >
>> > Here's the more or less detail: The room requests have been
submitted,
>> > and will be processed by either the end of this week or
very very
>> > early next week. The only detail excluding us from the rooms is if
>> > they are already booked; I, however, using the power of the
internets,
>> > looked at what rooms were already on the MU calendar
for booking,
and
>> > the rooms requested are NOT BOOKED.
>> >
>> > Here are the rooms I have requested. Since we are a
>> > university-sponsored event with no admission costs, we qualify for
>> > "Category I" pricing, meaning, the rooms are very cheap, and we
don't
>> > have to pay random "set-up" fees, or pay for
things like
microphones,
>> > etc. Listed below is the room name, capacity (in
parentheses), and
>> > the cost to rent it for the day (next to the dollar sign). Also,
we
>> > can drop the rooms if we decide we don't need this
many; some rooms
>> > can be configured differently. (Also, in the event that the
details
>> > about the Brickyard don't pan out, we can drop them
altogether if
>> > necessary.)
>> >
>> > We will get more details soon, but at this moment I know that we do
>> > not have a deposit due till either 60 or 30 days prior to the
event.
>> > (The university page with this detail seems to be MIA
at the
moment,
>> > sadly.)
>> >
>> > Navajo (30) $70
>> > Apache (30) $70
>> > Mohave (66) $90
>> > La Paz (east and west, 48 - or can be split into two rooms of 24)
$90
>> > total ($45 each)
>> > Gila (30) $70
>> > Graham (30) $70
>> >
>> > More details on the rooms themselves, including capacity,
>> > configuration, as well as the map of where they are located is on
page
>> > 2 of this document:
>> >
http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/mu/events/docs/secondFloor_emsFeatur
>> > es.pdf
>>
>> Update regarding the classroom space at Brickyard Artisan Square,
>> which we'll be using on Saturday and Sunday:
>>
>> * Jon Delany, our ASU contact, tells us that the classroom
reservation
>> process doesn't start until December 3rd. That's
a long way off,
>> and very close to the event, and the process doesn't grant
>> exceptions.
>>
>> * However, Jon and the person responsible for reservations at ASU
>> confirmed that classroom space there is almost never in use. Jon
is
>> continuing to work with them to do two things: (1) ensure
that we
>> will get dibs on appropriate space there, and (2) create a backup
>> plan for us, using the building administrative space.
>>
>> * I've also asked Jon about whether this December opening is only for
>> student groups, and whether there's an earlier opening for
reserving
>> space for a faculty-sponsored event.
>>
>> I'm not nearly as concerned about the classroom space as I was about
>> the network infrastructure (which has turned out well, at least as
far
>> as we can tell in advance). I do believe, given the
correspondence,
>> that we can safely commit at this point to the ASU space.
>>
>> I believe that we should be able to announce the event before the
week
>> is out. Are there any objections to doing that?
>>
>> --
>> Paul W. Frields
http://paul.frields.org/
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> No objections here. I'll finish getting the wiki updated with the
> travel discount info later today.
>
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