On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Alex Stinson
<stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
2011/3/4 Steve P.
<verdianspursfan@gmail.com>
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure that the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do meetings there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I was planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach
and we solidified as a chapter, which we didn't last summer. I have a card for the person sitting on my desk back in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have access too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she is the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to put you in contact with him,
It's not a problem to contact them. I know a couple folks there and can try her too. I think we'd want 3-4 volunteers to run each workshop or class.
We could try this out by doing 2 workshops, one at MLK and one in Fairfax.
I assume there are materials from the public policy initiative that could be a starting point, and maybe an ambassador or two that wants to help (but not required).
Cheers,
Katie