[CoLoCo] Please respond directly to Jim - Re: Hardy Party RSVP MegaMail

[Neal McBurnett]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:39:18AM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Okay, I haven't seen anything yet so I'm sending this for every to RSVP. We
> will need a somewhat accurate accounting of people planning to attend. Please
> include any friends, family, coworkers, etc. you plan to bring/drag along.

Email lists are great for many things.  But I think they are miserable
for RSVPs, polls, address updates, and the like.  In computer
algorithm theory this is the "N^2" problem - the number of messages
transferred is proportional to the square of the number of
participants.  Do we all want to get 80 messages with RSVPs, updates,
cancellations, etc?  80 * 150(?) subscribers = 12000 deliveries....

So I hope Jim is willing to summarize results, and that people are
willing to respond directly to Jim with their plans, rather than
writing to the whole list.

Alternatively, it would seem even better to make a wiki page to
represent the attendance, so anyone can sign up, modify and/or check
any time.

The wiki-challenged would be free to get an expert to offer help
or to do the sign-up for them.

That's what we did with Ubucon-Boulder:

 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubucon-Boulder

 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubucon-Boulder/Register

Anyway - thanks to Siblog, Jim and the other planners - sounds like
this will be a great event!  I've got some conflicts, but I hope
to be able to resolve them and come!

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

> Location:
> Gordon Biersch
> 1 West Flatiron Circle
> Broomfield, CO 80021
> Map It
> 
> Time:
> Sat April 26, 2008
> 6:00pm to 7:00pm - Event Starts
> 7:00pm to 8:00pm - Meeting and Discussion about Hardy Heron and its features/
> upgrades
> 8:00pm to when ever - General Hangout and interact
> 
> 
> Oh, I'm just one I think.
> Thanks.
> --
> Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)