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Ben chided us today for never updating, so I guess I should post something.

I'm kind discouraged about ACM.  While we have a group of people who are very interested in promoting the organization, and who seem to have really great ideas for the club, there are very few of them.  Meeting attendance is very low.  Joe is trying to arrange a speaker for an upcoming meeting, and I'm glad he's doing it, because I would feel embarassd to invite someone to come speak to a group of <10 people.  Advertising would probably help, but we never seem organized enough to get our meeting planned far enough in advance to get flyers made and posted a reasonable time before the meeting.  In fact, we have a meeting this coming Monday, but we don't have any flyers.  The pattern repeats, I guess.

Speaking of ACM, I'm kind of pissed that no one seems to visit the chapter website that michael and I spent a lot of time working on.  It took me days to get that damn message board working, much less looking nice, and no one ever reads anything posted there.  On the other hand, we have had four or five people add themselves to our mailing list since Winter Break, which is nice.

Sean wants to get a "big name" speaker like RMS or ESR to come to a meeting.  While I think it would be really cool, I'm also kind of worried.  What if we get one of these people out here, pay for their flight and hotel, and then only 20 people show up to hear their talk?  It would embarassing and bad for the club.

Well, that's enough of a rant about ACM for tonight.  Perhaps I'll bitch about the lounge tomorrow.

Posted by on 23 January 2001 at 12:01 AM