Urgent: BayLISA is moving

Tue Aug 20 20:18:22 PDT 2002

BayLISA has been meeting at Incyte Genomics for quite a while, and it's 
time to find a new space.  We have always relied on the members (and, 
often, their employers) to find a suitable room.  We need your help again.

If you know of a room that will meet our needs, and you have some influence 
over its keepers, please contact them on our behalf.  You may have more 
influence than you think: ask.  You could also send the contact info to 
<blw at baylisa.org> and we'll approach them, but it's best if we have a 
sponsor within the host organization.  You need to make the case that 
BayLISA is worth supporting, and the recognition it brings to the host is 
valuable.

The upcoming general meeting in September (always the third Thursday) may 
be the last at Incyte.  We want to have a new venue *confirmed* so we can 
announce it at that meeting.  So time is short!  Make that phone call or 
send that email NOW, please!  Feel free to forward this message to anyone 
you think can help.

Regarding our "needs", we aren't too picky: seating for 80 in a lecture 
arrangement, available from 7 to 10 p.m the third Thursday of every month, 
somewhere roughly in the south bay or peninsula.  Some of our past venues 
have had some nice amenities (PA, LCD projector, Internet) but we're pretty 
resourceful and can make do with a very basic space.  Please get us the 
contact first, and then we'll look at the room and decide on its 
suitability.

Thank you for your help with this, and all your support over the years. 
And thanks once again to Brett Lemoine and Brad Robinson of Incyte Genomics 
for the wonderful support we have received there.

--
Jim Hickstein
President, BayLISA
www.baylisa.org