Well, I have to come at Neal's approach from two different angles: there's me as an ENWorld junkie who says, "Wow that's super cool!" and there's me as a president of an on-campus club who has their name associated with this event.
I, for one, would not mind seeing the two events held on the same day with a lot of cross posting between the two. However, unless his event has been coincidentally planned for the 31st for quite some time, he will probably have trouble finding space on campus. I say this for two reasons:
- Talley is probably already booked solid, and isn't the best place to hold LARPs, anyway.
- Academic space (i.e., space in a regular building on campus) cannot be requested until the second week of the current semester. Which means that he would be looking for space for his event like the week beforehand.
Now, after saying all that I might sound like a sour bag of grapes, but here's my point: we have space for a "sizeable" ENWorld Game Day, but we probably don't have space for many of the other activities that he is listing. Sadly, we just aren't set up to handle it.
So here's my vote: we support him in any way that we reasonably can, as I said before, by cross posting event information, spreading the word and somehow merging the title of the event, but we should probably keep close control of our current space. When he is planning to do this again, he can easily contact us well enough in advance (because NC Game Day has a regular schedule) and I would be happy to work with other student groups on campus to farm out some space and get things worked out well in advance.
Again, I don't want to be a "party-pooper," but I think that might be the best way to ensure that everyone (his attendee's included) have a good time.
Matt