Quantnet Picnic in Central Park

[AmericanBilly]

We're planning an outdoor Quantnet festival in Central Park for the middle of September.
The candidate dates are Saturday, September 13th and Saturday, September 20th.

We'll keep this thread open until Friday, September 5th for comments and the a decision will be made.

So, what will it be?

[Andy]

I have friends over for Sep 13th so I'm in for Sept 20th.

[Eugene Krel]

Either date works for me.

Is this a rain/shine event?

[Roger Trimble]

20th sounds like a good day to me.

[John Jurcevic]

I would rather have it at the earlier date than later.

[doug reich]

I scheduled one of those Subotnick tutorials on the 13rd, so I prefer the 20th, but that can obviously be canceled.

[Andy]

Here are some pic from last year Central Park picnic
http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1464&page=2 (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1464)

[Chris]

I'd be down for the 20th

[doug reich]

I have an embarrassing story about the great hill, location of last year's picnic, from my childhood. I will tell it to you if you go to the picnic, and if you ask me to.

[Aditya Chitral]

Count me in for any of the dates.

Also, I am there if any help is needed to organize or anything else...

[Wallstyouth]

I have friends over for Sep 13th so I'm in for Sept 20th.

Andy you ever thought of setting up a Quantnet meetup group? Use the Internet to get off the Internet! - Meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com)

[Andy]

Actually, I've been a member of several Meetup groups since 2002. And member of several financial engineering meetups which I used to recruit members for Quantnet (shameless).
So NO, I still don't know how to get off the Internet.
Maybe going to picnic in Central Park with fellow Quantneters would be a temporary cure.

[RussianMike]

Any day works, but I miss Andy so September 20th it is

[maxrum]

Any day works for me.

[alain]

I can't make it any weekend... have fun!!!!

[Bridgett]

Neither of the two dates -- I will be travelling in China during that time. Enjoy the picnic, guys !!!

[luso]

Either date is fine with me at this moment.

[Vadim]

I would prefer to make it Sept 13th. I guess creator of the thread or admin can add voting block to the thread.

[Yan He]

Either date works for me.

[Andy]

Poll added so vote away people.

[Yan He]

Andy, can you also add "both dates" and "none of the dates" so that we have more choices :)

[giampiero]

I rocked my vote

[dstefan]

I voted already ;)

[gkumar]

Andy, what meetup groups are you part of? I'd like to check them out too. I'm voting for the 13th!

[Shlomi]

Voted, although I can make it to the other option also.

[Hao]

They are both working for me.

[Hien]

Voted. 9/20 Please.

[Carl]

Either day is fine. See you there!

[dstefan]

Have all the people spoken already?! ;)

The balance is tilting rather heavily toward 9/20 as of now.

[maxrum]

Quants are very superstitious people, thus they prefer to stay away from number "13" :)

[dstefan]

apparently not :)

[Eddie]

anyday works for me , but i prefer monday - friday though, best if it count as a working day too

[gkumar]

So what's the plan for this picnic? And is anything required for us to bring?

[Stefan Zota]

I signed up for Reuters 1 and 2 on Sep 20th from 1-5PM. They did not have another window available :-k
Will see if I can fit everything in one day ...

[Andy]

So what's the plan for this picnic? And is anything required for us to bring?
Please RSVP and see instructions on this thread
QuantNet Picnic In Central Park on Sat 9/20 - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3522)