On 08/26/2011 06:38 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
I think it would be best to give the talks either *much* earlier before the meeting, e.g. 17:00, or do it on another day. Another possibility is to just declare that the meetup is cancelled at that week and instead we are gonna have a great guest lecture!
17:00 is too early (evil daystar is still shining making brmlab not very good place for talks for various reasons), not to mention that some of us have regular work.
(Rationale: We tried it once with the ASRG talk and it did not work
Your rationale is flawed because there was no particular plan about ASRG talk, plus it was obvious from the beginning it won't last for only 40 minutes. I would not cancel regular meetup in advance and let us see how the situation evolves. Let's be spontaneous. We don't need to solve so many things like we used to, back in the times when ASRG talk took place, anyway.