No need to be sorry.  You have good points.  The one good thing about lunch
is that it is a function to which people can apportion their conference
time.  It is in a relatively quiet environment and as such conducive to
exchange.  Having a larger group means that you have to have someone
directing the meeting.  Or else, everyone stands with food in their hands
and tries to look smart doing so.  It is a trick I have mastered long ago,
by having a very small plate with a few things in it when I walk around
talking to people.  If I want to eat, I just find a chair and I eat.  I can
then get up and walk around some more with a drink (Ginger Ale) or another
small plate.

All in all, I think the lunch format is best.  If you have found it boring
in the past, it's because you have never sat at my table.  I eat super
quick and talk while everyone else eats.  :)

I think we should stick with the lunch format.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Gavin Scott [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, June 22, 2001 1:33 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: I OJECT TO THURSDAY !!!!

Instead of doing a lunch, why not arrange some other sort of get-together
such as a designated 3000-L area at one or both of the HP reception and the
big party event?

The lunches tend to be rather boring IMHO, since you end up only talking to
the ~7 other people who end up sitting at your table, and there isn't much
opportunity to mix with other groups.  It's a tradition that I can't say I
would miss very much (so ¡ ”Denys).

Not that I'm planning to go to HP World this year.

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