Columbus ACM SIGCHI Chapter

First Organizational Meeting

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Preferences for Organizational Meeting Dates

I received 19 responses from people about attending an organizational meeting for a Columbus SIGCHI Chapter. This is more than enough for a steering committee. Of the 19, 14 rated the Nov. 27 date (when Kevin Mullet will be speaking at OSU) as 1 or 2 (ideal or good). We will definitely have a meeting on that date.

The remaining 5 people had ratings all over the place for the other dates, but the best date (except for one person) was Tuesday, Nov. 21. With only four people who might come on that date (one of whom rated 11/27 as fair), I don't think it makes sense to have two meetings. There will be future opportunities for these people to participate.

To:
People interested in volunteering to form a local chapter
What:
Columbus SIGCHI Organizational Meeting
When:
November 27, 1995 (Monday), 7-9 p.m.
Where:
Unless otherwise directed, assume Room 480 in new Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Avenue, on the OSU campus. (This is the building just north of Baker Systems, Room 120, where Kevin Mullet from Macromedia will be giving his talk on "Exploring Interface Design" at 4:30 p.m. Don't miss it!) I have included information about Mullet's talk with directions.

Tentative Agenda

  1. Introductions (of course)
  2. Review requirements for forming a local ACM SIG Chapter (see below)
  3. Discuss possible activities for the SIG (e.g., meetings, seminars)
  4. Decide who might do various tasks (e.g., write the bylaws, run an election)
  5. Discuss how to involve people without email (Columbus freenet, OSU FAX gateway, ?)

Links

I am keeping a WWW page for the chapter at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~perlman/BUCKCHI/index.html

I have added links to ACM / SIGCHI and their Bylaws, along with a link to the sample bylaws for local SIGs. If you are interested in becoming an officer in the local SIG or if you are interested in helping to write the bylaws, please browse these before the meeting.


Address
Gary Perlman
Department of Computer & Information Science
395 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Avenue
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA
perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~perlman
+1-614-292-2566 (voice) +1-614-292-2911 (fax)