[GRLUG] GRCC

[Ben DeMott]

>  This is pretty vague.  What do they want to do?  What are they
> interested in? etc....  A guy at barcamp said the GRCC computer club was
> essentially moribund as far as he knew (I attended GRCC back in the days
> of UUCP and Yggdrasil).


Well Eric's response was pretty vague, I think he was leaning on me to offer
more input --> Like
"Well what if we got together all of the Programming/Computer Science
Professors and had them mention a new meeting time to help bring the club to
life again"
I think he was maybe looking for suggestions on HOW I was willing to help
out with the computer club.
I guess my intention / goal was to make sure the computer club didn't die
--> Now that I am a "professional" I think its really good to give back and
talk about 'real experiences' to kids who are interested, heck I wish I
could have talked to my future self when I was 18.

I realize not everyone wants to volunteer their time, so I sent the board a
message to see if anyone else had talked about this before. It sounds like
you have, so maybe this is a dead end road.

I could send Eric a message back saying "We'd be interested in meeting on
GRCC's Campus at our usual meeting time of 6pm, to see how much interest
there was, and possibly coming up with strategies to get current students
involved in the club again"

I just haven't explored what benefits/relationship could be possible, thats
why I was asking if you guys had any idea how this could benefit us, but
either way, it sounds like Eric was open to ideas or dialogue.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <
adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:04 -0400, Ben DeMott wrote:
> > I contacted Eric Mullen (the student life director at GRCC) about a
> > month ago.
> > I asked him about the status of the computer club, and if they need
> > any Mentors or people to help out.
> > He recently emailed me back and said the computer club was up in the
> > air at the moment, but he wanted to stay in contact.
> > I thought I would ask here if that interests anyone or if anyone has
> > any input as far as being involved with the Local College.
>
> This is pretty vague.  What do they want to do?  What are they
> interested in? etc....  A guy at barcamp said the GRCC computer club was
> essentially moribund as far as he knew (I attended GRCC back in the days
> of UUCP and Yggdrasil).
>
> > We could possibly come to some mutual understanding, or it could give
> > us an alternate place to meet?
>
> I was in contact with someone (don't remember who) at GRCC awhile back
> about a meeting place for MOSG <http://www.mosg.org/>.  They were
> interesting in providing a meeting place, but only during the day, which
> pretty much ruled out participation of any group members (that whole
> "jobs" thing).
>
> > I'm completely new to the group, so don't let me overstep my bounds -
> > but I just thought I would throw that out and see what you guys
> > thought of it.
> > Either way, I think it may be useful to have a dialogue between our
> > group and the schools computer club. In addition to possibly offering
> > our group resources I think its generally a good thing to positively
> > impact the community.
> > Any thoughts / Ideas / Comments ?
>
>
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