[GRLUG] GRCC

[Jason Kisner]

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.

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!

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
> (Background info: I was VP of Computer Club for a year, then President
> for two years.  I'm also on the list of people who get club
> announcements. After I left, there was a period while the clubs
> executive roles shuffled around, a lot of mistakes were made, and the
> club had its reputation tarnished.  Currently, though, it's being led
> by someone who knows what they're doing, and it's getting back on
> track.)
>
> The Computer Club's interests change each year; They have a meeting
> each Fall and decide what they'd like to do for the year, then they go
> out and do it.  The one thing that was wildly successful for a long
> time was the free PC Clinic.  I don't believe they've settled on what
> they want to do for this year.
>
> I believe they're planning on renaming the club to "IT Force" this year.
>
> >
> >> We could possibly come to some mutual understanding, or it could give
> >> us an alternate place to meet?
>
> I brokered an exchange between a member of this list, the President of
> the Computer Club and the director of Student Activities at GRCC.  The
> list member (Feel free to speak up if you read this...) wanted to set
> up a Linux club at GRCC, and I recommended that they do it as a
> subgroup of the Computer Club.
>
> There are restrictions on that, though; College-supplied funds can't
> be used to the direct benefit of non-students.  However, room
> reservations shouldn't be a problem (I once subbed for Szymon in
> hosting a GRLUG meeting while simultaneously running the Computer
> Club), and the club has its own fundraising that allows it to be more
> flexible with its money.
>
> It's a definite possibility.
>
> >
> > 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).
>
> The Computer Club normally meets from 4-6PM on Thursdays, and, last I
> checked, that area of the college typically has rooms available in the
> evening.  It's just a matter of getting the room reservation and
> (depending on whose name the reservation is in) having club members
> and/or a club advisor present.  A 6PM-9PM time slot shouldn't be hard
> at all, if I'm up-to-date on how everything works right now.
>
>
>
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