Re: [Boston-voice-users] BVU meeting 6/13 7:30 pm

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Mark,

Would you be interested in helping out?

--- Forwarded mail from Mary Hopkins <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mhopkins>

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:39:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mary Hopkins <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mhopkins>
To: Boston Voice Users <http://www.harvee.billerica.ma.us/~boston-voice-users>

We need to do some serious organizing, folks. I (MH) am doing too much. It
was never my intention to "run" the group; I've wound up accumulating
tasks that nobody else seemed able or willing to do, and they're adding
up. At this point I'm overwhelmed, which is mostly a function of other
things going on in my life. I need to hand off my organizing jobs for BVU.

I suggest that we devote next Tuesday's meeting to this subject. I think
that people might talk more freely if I were not there, so my preference
is to give the paperwork to someone else (VOLUNTEERS??) and make myself
scarce. This would have the added advantage of not letting me volunteer to
do things after all!

In the past when we've had organizing meetings, we've had very few people
attend. Basically if nobody shows up to organize, then the group won't go.
If it matters to you, show up and do your bit.

Carolyn has let me know that she's going to be trying to recruit people at
tonight's RSI Action drop-in, and that some of those people may not be
able to be at Tuesday's meeting. I very much hope that she'll be able to
attend and report on who's agreed to do what.

Here's my job description. My preference is to hand off all of it to other
people.

* Keep program schedules and contact speakers. This is the thing that I've
been doing worst, recently, and that I most urgently want to stop doing.
Peter Fleming has mentioned helping, and I'm sure there's room for others 
as well.

*Post meeting notices. I've been posting to this list and cross-posting to
http://www.voicerecognition.net/~voice-users. Carolyn used to do a number of other
cross-posts, and the group benefited a lot by them. Perhaps she could
inform people of what they were, pending her being able to get back
on-line.

*Phone notifications. Call about 10-15 people who can't use email, let
them know about the meetings. Keep a current & legible list, be able to
hand this along if you have to be away.

*Do liaison w/ MIT (ATIC lab and events scheduling), keep track of room
reservations, any borrowed equipment, etc. NOTE: July-Sept meetings are
scheduled for 2-143, nearby & same equipment.

*CNOT liaison. Take calls from people referred to the group by CNOT.

*We used to have a local phone list of people willing to offer help to
others. I recently posted a request for updates and got no responses at
all, so my inclination is to drop this. Some of the numbers on it are from
people we haven't seen for quite some time.

I'll undertake to have the paperwork organized and ready to hand off by
Tuesday. I can put phone list etc. on a floppy, WP and ascii versions, and
have this with the paperwork. I'll also undertake to notify MIT and CNOT
of who new liaison people are, when we know who those are.

Directions to room: Go in the main door of MIT, at 77 Mass Ave. Go
straight down the Infinite Corridor for as long as you can. When forced to
turn, go right. You'll pass an intersection decorated with murals of
jungle animals. There'll be a hallway to the library on your left, stairs
on your right. Keep going straight, 2-135 is a couple of doors further
along on your left. For wheelchair access: use the door at 33 Mass Ave,
toward the River from the main door. There's a lift there.

Please feel free to cross-post this message.

--- End of forwarded message from Mary Hopkins <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mhopkins>