<div dir="ltr">Hi. I know I'm not very active on this list and some of you (a lot of you) don't know who I am. But I was a club member to said club recently(under Michael Mol through to the present president) and am ex-roommate of the present president of said club. A few things to clarify(hopefully). The club's name is now IT-Force and they meet on Wednesdays as well as Thursdays in the same time slot, last I heard. How well the club is doing right now I'm not sure about, but if my ex-roommate is involved, it won't stay stagnate for very long.<br>
<br>To Ben: If you contact her about your idea, she'll help you push it through. She's always looking for ideas like this. Good Luck!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
<<a href="mailto:adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com">adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:04 -0400, Ben DeMott wrote:<br>
>> I contacted Eric Mullen (the student life director at GRCC) about a<br>
>> month ago.<br>
>> I asked him about the status of the computer club, and if they need<br>
>> any Mentors or people to help out.<br>
>> He recently emailed me back and said the computer club was up in the<br>
>> air at the moment, but he wanted to stay in contact.<br>
>> I thought I would ask here if that interests anyone or if anyone has<br>
>> any input as far as being involved with the Local College.<br>
><br>
> This is pretty vague. What do they want to do? What are they<br>
> interested in? etc.... A guy at barcamp said the GRCC computer club was<br>
> essentially moribund as far as he knew (I attended GRCC back in the days<br>
> of UUCP and Yggdrasil).<br>
<br>
</div>(Background info: I was VP of Computer Club for a year, then President<br>
for two years. I'm also on the list of people who get club<br>
announcements. After I left, there was a period while the clubs<br>
executive roles shuffled around, a lot of mistakes were made, and the<br>
club had its reputation tarnished. Currently, though, it's being led<br>
by someone who knows what they're doing, and it's getting back on<br>
track.)<br>
<br>
The Computer Club's interests change each year; They have a meeting<br>
each Fall and decide what they'd like to do for the year, then they go<br>
out and do it. The one thing that was wildly successful for a long<br>
time was the free PC Clinic. I don't believe they've settled on what<br>
they want to do for this year.<br>
<br>
I believe they're planning on renaming the club to "IT Force" this year.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
>> We could possibly come to some mutual understanding, or it could give<br>
>> us an alternate place to meet?<br>
<br>
</div>I brokered an exchange between a member of this list, the President of<br>
the Computer Club and the director of Student Activities at GRCC. The<br>
list member (Feel free to speak up if you read this...) wanted to set<br>
up a Linux club at GRCC, and I recommended that they do it as a<br>
subgroup of the Computer Club.<br>
<br>
There are restrictions on that, though; College-supplied funds can't<br>
be used to the direct benefit of non-students. However, room<br>
reservations shouldn't be a problem (I once subbed for Szymon in<br>
hosting a GRLUG meeting while simultaneously running the Computer<br>
Club), and the club has its own fundraising that allows it to be more<br>
flexible with its money.<br>
<br>
It's a definite possibility.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> I was in contact with someone (don't remember who) at GRCC awhile back<br>
> about a meeting place for MOSG <<a href="http://www.mosg.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mosg.org/</a>>. They were<br>
> interesting in providing a meeting place, but only during the day, which<br>
> pretty much ruled out participation of any group members (that whole<br>
> "jobs" thing).<br>
<br>
</div>The Computer Club normally meets from 4-6PM on Thursdays, and, last I<br>
checked, that area of the college typically has rooms available in the<br>
evening. It's just a matter of getting the room reservation and<br>
(depending on whose name the reservation is in) having club members<br>
and/or a club advisor present. A 6PM-9PM time slot shouldn't be hard<br>
at all, if I'm up-to-date on how everything works right now.<br>
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