Call for Participation: Organizational Meeting

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Results of the Call for Participation

There were 39 "interested" people who responded, of which 14 "volunteers" were willing to put in some time, of which 4 potential officers identified themselves. Not bad! Additionally, there are 13 SIGCHI members who have not yet responded because they were not contacted via postal mail for the initial RFP. There appears to be plenty of interest in a local chapter, a so we should proceed to the next step, which is to have a meeting.

An Organizational Meeting

At the meeting, I propose that we review the requirements for forming a local ACM SIG Chapter, decide who might do various tasks, and help them do them. I can make much of the information available on the WWW, via email to people who do not have WWW access, or even via paper for people who do not have access to email.

Scheduling the Meeting

The hard part is to schedule a meeting, so to take the pain out of the process of scheduling, I propose that we plan for two meetings. That way, the maximum number of people can attend. It is easy for me to schedule rooms at OSU, but you have to pay for parking. It might be more convenient to meet at a different place. For each of the following dates, rate the choices with the scale:
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      ideal   okay    fair     bad  impossible
NOTE: These are not times for chapter meetings. They are times for people who want to be involved in the _organization_ of the local chapter. If you do not want to volunteer, please sit back and relax for now. I will choose two dates that minimize the number of people who can't attend while maximizing the convenience of the dates. If anyone knows of conflicts with what should be cooperating associations, please let me know so I can schedule around those dates.
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Please fill out and return the following form to me ASAP.
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	Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Your rating: 
	Friday,   Nov. 17, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Your rating: 
	Monday,   Nov. 20, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Your rating: 
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	Monday,   Nov. 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Your rating:
(there will be a talk at OSU by Kevin Mullet from Macromedia on 11/27, at 4:30, so we could have an HCI marathon, perhaps meeting over dinner)

Links

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