[ale] future of ALE NW

[Ray Knight]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:49, Geoffrey wrote:
> There was a meeting held this afternoon at KSU to discuss the future of 
> the ALE NW meetings.  Of late, the attendance has dropped dramatically. 
>   It's been quite difficult to get presenters as well.
> 
I'd be willing to do more presentations if we could develop a list of
desired topics.  I'm sure the list will contain items I both know
something about and find interesting.  I could then develop a talk on
the subject.  I'm just not sure what subjects would develop enough
interest to draw a reasonable attendance.

> At any rate, I wanted to get feedback on some possible solutions.  We 
> are considering moving the meetings to the afternoon, around 12:30 or 
> so, in order to permit more students to attend.  Unfortunately, KSU has 
> a large number of evening classes and many students who would likely 
> attend the ALE meetings can not make it because of conflicts.
> 
> For those folks who are not students of KSU, but have attended ALE NW 
> meetings and would like to continue to do so, I'd like to get some 
> feedback on such a change. Can you/will you still be able to attend?
> 

12:30 is a horrible time unless it falls on Saturday.  I work in
Alpharetta so I wouldn't attend anything earlier than 6:00 pm.  Perhaps
a change of day rather than time would be enough to increase attendance.

> For any students who might be on the list, I'd like to get your feedback 
> as well.  Will such a change enable you to make more meetings?  Do you 
> think other students would attend who currently do not?
> 
The last meeting I attended (I believe last month) there was a student
from Southern Tech who attended.  She indicated attendance was for a
class project, but she had not heard of the meetings before.  She also
indicated that she didn't think that many students at Southern Tech were
aware of the meetings.  It sounded to me like we need better
advertising.  Perhaps we can get something posted in the student centers
at Kennesaw and Southern Tech and look into getting announcements made
in campus newspapers or on campus radio.

> Thanks in advance for the input folks.

-- 
Ray Knight <audilover at atlantabroadband.com>