AmesMUG Officers: Future of the group

[Hillson, Thomas D [AEX S]]

Guys if you are looking at making a major transition of Officers, you
may want to have a general meeting or expand the meeting to include all
the people you can and determine where people want the group to go and
if they want it to grow or drop to a lower level of activity. I can tell
you from experience that loosing experienced people can kill a group,
especially if they are some of the more active members. In our original
MacUsers Group we lost lots of people and stayed active, until we hit a
period where we lost the two most active members, then the group dies as
no one wanted to do the work to keep it going.
 
I am happy to help in any way I can, but I got burnt out doing too much
with our original Mac Users Group, that happens if you do not have a
good recruiting effort.
 
Tom Hillson

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From: officers-bounces at amesmug.ag.iastate.edu
[mailto:officers-bounces at amesmug.ag.iastate.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Salvador
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:50 PM
To: Jonathan Salvador
Subject: Re: AmesMUG Officers: Future of the group


I think it would be worthwhile to have a meeting tomorrow, if people are
available. 



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Jonathan Salvador
jonny at iastate.edu
On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Chris Hoff wrote:


	Hey all.
	
	We have some important decisions we need to make.  GSB funding
meetings are coming up.  The schedule is below.
	
	Organizations that wish to apply for Regular Allocations MUST
attend one of the four informational sessions:
	Tuesday, January 29 at 11am in Room 3512 - Memorial Union
	Thursday, January 31 at 4pm in Room 3512 - Memorial Union
	Monday, February 4 at 6pm in Room 3512 - Memorial Union
	Wednesday, February 6 at 6pm in the Oak Room - Memorial Union
	
	The question is, should we apply for funding?  As I think most
of you are aware, Jordan and I will be leaving Ames and ISU in May.
Currently, Jordan is the group secretary and I am the group treasurer.
All organizations are required to have a president, treasurer, and
faculty/staff adviser.  However, the president and treasurer can be the
same person.  Our current officer lineup looks like this:
	
	President Brandon J Newendorp
	Adviser Thomas Hillson
	Treasurer Christopher D Hoff
	Vice President Jonathan T Salvador
	Secretary Jordan M Hoff
	
	So the obvious void to fill for the upcoming year is treasurer.
As a student organization, our officers must be students.  So, if the
one or two students we'll have left in the group next year aren't
willing to step up and learn how to be treasurer, the group can't
continue.  I can train anyone on the treasurer duties.  It isn't all
that difficult since I've kept everything - so examples on anything
you'd need to do are available.  Another option would be to convert the
group to a campus organization.  This would mean no more GSB funding,
but filling officer positions would be easier because they can be anyone
from the university community.  And without GSB to worry about, the
treasurer position would be easy.  And I suppose the final possibility
is to dissolve the group entirely.  If we go that route, we'll have to
deal with our assets.  (Assets may even be an issue if we go to campus
org status - not sure how GSB purchased items would be handled in that
case).
	
	At the GSB funding meeting, they will request information about
our org, such as who the officers are.  I can only make the first two
GSB funding meetings.  The later two I have class.  Unfortunately, the
two meeting options are both before our next officer's meeting (this
Thursday).  So we can try and figure this all out over email, or maybe
hold an "emergency" officer's meeting on Tuesday night (at 7?).
	
	To add another complication, our organization will expire in a
few weeks.  This happens every year.  To renew we have to collect
signatures of all officers and our adviser on a Compliance Agreement
Form.  I don't think this should be done until we know our plans for
next year.
	
	All recipients - please respond to this email.  Everyone's input
is needed!
	
	Thanks,
	
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	Chris Hoff
	
	
	






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