[ale] Re: Ale digest, Vol 1 #422 - 13 msgs

[Charles Shapiro]

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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:29:54 -0500
> From: Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Future of local group meetings
> Reply-To: ale at ale.org
> 
> Sounds like a real discussion of HOWTO-Fight Atlanta Traffic for our 
> group is in order. ;-)
> 
> With the sprawl and traffic problems the ALE-NW has been actually pretty 
> successful.  We've had good meetings and turnouts overall for the 
> locality.  However, I'd like to present an idea to keep cohesiveness and 
> still allow local meetings to flourish.  What if we have a local meeting 
> one month and a central meeting the next month?  That takes the pressure 
> off the local groups to schedule speakers every month and find a date 
> for the meeting separate from the main ALE meeting.  And, it forces a 
> central meeting which has always been accessible and popular enough that 
> there is a large attendance most of the time.  Going to the central 
> meeting is definitely the best place to find out what everyone looks 
> like. :-)                     This is just a thought.  I heard there was 
> 4 million people now in the Metro area.  Hard to believe.  I've lived 
> here in Atlanta all my life so I am a real minority now!
> 
> 
> We would need more organization than is present currently:
> 
> ALE-NW       located at KSU
> ALE-E        located out I-20E or I-85N
> ALE-S        located out I-75S or I-85S
> ALE-Central  located at Emory
> 
> ALE-Central could be every month alternating between local and main status
>                        while all the other meetings were every other month.
> 
> We'd need volunteers and locations for spearheading each local group.  I 
> would keep the same time and place for all meetings if possible.  So 
> those currently running ALE-Central and ALE-NW would stay the same and 
> we would need two new groups of leaders to start and maintain the ALE-E 
> and ALE-S meetings.  Of course, this is rough and with the number of 
> people in the area you could have more local groups.  It is really up to 
> whoever wants to start and maintain a group in a certain area that wins 
> the short drive prize.  I think the blessing of the whole group ought to 
> play into whether a new local group is started or not.  I really want to 
> promote harmony here and not take away from the presence and clarity of 
> the current setup.  Sincerely,
> Dow
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Uh, not all of us drive to the meetings. The Kennesaw meeting is 
completely out of range for me.

I worry that the every-other-month local meetings would wither and die. 
The local juggling community consists of two mainstay clubs, one at
Emory and one in Little 5 Points. Several other clubs have been born and
then died on the vine in the 25 years that the AJA has been around. The
major problem seems to be finding and holding an indoor space.

-- CHS
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