Hey everyone,

 

So, I was talking to Lane Rasberry from the Cascadia/New York City/Medicine Chapter(s), and he was inquiring about where we are in the process of chapter formation. I know we have a meeting planned for this spring, but if we want to get this off the ground and start moving forward, we should probably start having monthly or bi-monthly meetings after that in order to form a chapter within the year. We have the support and we are very organized as a proto chapter, and I would like to see if we could set a goal of having a chapter by the end of 2013, and possibly set goals before our next meeting to get this done. Heck, we could even hold the meeting earlier in the year. Since it has been almost a year and a half since we first started talking about this, it would be nice to make some progress in terms of setting goals and setting timelines for us. I’m wondering what you all think, but I would also like to have a goal established for a formation of this chapter, as it would be very good to have one in the region.

 

While I’m here, are there any objections to moving our meeting date to the weekend, or combining it with proto-chapter meetings? It would be a lot easier for some of us outside of the Boston metropolitan area to attend these meetings if they are on days when school is not the next day, and we could also save money on parking, as Cambridge is quite the opposite of cheap and affordable. Another benefit for doing this is that we could harness our support from the meetup participants, and it would be another step towards productive meetings. Finally, if we could do this on the weekend, we could also bring in more students and professors, as they will not have school to worry about.

 

Well, that’s all I have to say for now, and I hope that all of you are surviving finals/the holiday season/the impending end of the world.

 

Kevin Rutherford