Just
to follow up as another active WMNYC member: I do remember the presentation in
question; however I don’t remember the heckling. This is not to say I doubt it
happened, but I do recall being distracted by preparing for a presentation I was
giving later and so my attention probably wasn’t fully on the events around me
(in fact, I may have left the space I was in to better prepare in an empty room
for some of that time).
I
can, however, very much confirm the situation Katherine describes down to the
point that I know exactly who she’s talking about (a person whom, to complicate
matters, has been known to be of late in very desperate financial straits and
close to being homeless at times). I agree that what we have been able to do
isn’t enough, because we don’t have the human resources to do much more. But
Nathan’s suggestions are a great starting point for doing more, and certainly we
could bring that up at the next board meeting.