[BLUG] Talk: Using computers to target voters

On Feb. 18, 2009 (Wednesday) at 7pm Paul Purdom will speak at the Monroe
County Library (Bloomington) on Using computers to target voters. This
talk will be at an elementary level, both on politics and on computing.
I will discuss various computational problems that arise in politics and
discuss briefly tools that can be used to solve these problems. This
talk will be from the view point that you will be producing your own
tools for solving the problem of reaching voters with political
messages. There are also commercial programs for these problems, but
these will not be discussed unless some people in the audience know
about that topic.
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Re: [BLUG] February Meeting

Barry Schatz wrote:
> According to the poll (filtering out Cooley's mistaken entry), there were 5
> OKs and 2 "If Need Be" votes for the 18th versus 3 OKs and 5 "If Need Be"
> votes for the 25th. Also, I'm changing my vote to "If Need Be" for the 18th,
> so that bumps the 18th up even more.
>
I am preparing for the 18th. I pretty much have the talk ready. Now I
just need to remember that day that I need to come.
(Unfortunately, in recent years I forget things like this about 10
percent of the time unless I take a lot of care to remember.)

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[BLUG] Re: February Meeting

Oh, and it will be at 7:00 pm as is our custom. I'll book the room from 6:30
in case anyone wants to show up early, but 7:00 is the official start time.

-Barry

On Sunday 08 February 2009 04:48:00 pm Barry Schatz wrote:
> Of the five dates that were available, one is now booked (by someone else)
> and two more are no good for Paul (who is presenting). Obviously, we need
> both a room and a presenter in order to have the meeting.
>
> The two remaining times are Web February 18 and Tuesday February 25. An
> additional caveat of the 25th is that the room isn't available until 7:30
> pm.
>
> According to the poll (filtering out Cooley's mistaken entry), there were 5
> OKs and 2 "If Need Be" votes for the 18th versus 3 OKs and 5 "If Need Be"
> votes for the 25th. Also, I'm changing my vote to "If Need Be" for the
> 18th, so that bumps the 18th up even more.
>
> We can play with the numbers to choose the right date, but I think the 18th
> would just work better. I'm going to schedule the 18th.
>
> Bottom Line: next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday the 18th of February
> (aka Wednesday of next week) unless you complain really loudly.
>
> -Barry

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[BLUG] February Meeting

Of the five dates that were available, one is now booked (by someone else) and
two more are no good for Paul (who is presenting). Obviously, we need both a
room and a presenter in order to have the meeting.

The two remaining times are Web February 18 and Tuesday February 25. An
additional caveat of the 25th is that the room isn't available until 7:30 pm.

According to the poll (filtering out Cooley's mistaken entry), there were 5
OKs and 2 "If Need Be" votes for the 18th versus 3 OKs and 5 "If Need Be"
votes for the 25th. Also, I'm changing my vote to "If Need Be" for the 18th,
so that bumps the 18th up even more.

We can play with the numbers to choose the right date, but I think the 18th
would just work better. I'm going to schedule the 18th.

Bottom Line: next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday the 18th of February (aka
Wednesday of next week) unless you complain really loudly.

-Barry
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