Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 10:06:44 -1000
From:	march@nynexst.com (Gregory F. March)
Message-Id: <MARCH.93Sep17200644@bonehead.nynexst.com>
Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
Subject: Events coordinator needed


I was speaking to Marty Sasaki the other day about upcoming events
only to find that the list of events I had was very badly out of date.
Being a novice, I don't really know where to look for this stuff. I
made a suggestion that we both agreed sounded good. Here it is:

I was thinking that what rec.kites needs is either a central location
(like the ftp archive), or even better, an person who is willing to
maintain a list of upcoming events and post them, say once a week, to
rec.kites. In order for this to work, every one has to know that this
person is *the* person to send all updates to. This can also be
accomplished by a weekly posting (maybe a rec.kites FAQ?).

If you think this is a good or bad idea, speak out. If you want to
volunteer, speak out even louder! :-)

greg


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Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 20:20:11 -1000
From:	kyteman@aol.com
Message-Id: <9309180220.tn40294@aol.com>
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Subject: Re: Events coordinator needed

I currently keep a DB of all AKA-sanctioned events; it would be no great
problem to upload the upcoming ones occasionally, but since I'm not "hot" on
the net I don't know how to get at the FAQs, up or down.

Main problem, now and always, is that we don't hear about or sanction all
events, though the number is increasing -- 75-90 per year.  I expect that we
sanction most of the competitive events though.  A secondary problem is that
we often don't receive a sanctioning request until insurance panic sets in a
few weeks before the event.

I'll do a text dump of the upcoming list in the next few days and send it as
e-mail to the group so you can see if its useful.

Brooks Leffler / AKA        kyteman@aol.com


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Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 22:57:43 -1000
From:	salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne)
Message-Id: <1993Sep18.085743.18588@nic.funet.fi>
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Subject: Re: Events coordinator needed

In <MARCH.93Sep17200644@bonehead.nynexst.com> march@nynexst.com (Gregory F. March) writes:

>I was thinking that what rec.kites needs is either a central location
>(like the ftp archive), or even better, an person who is willing to
>maintain a list of upcoming events and post them, say once a week, to
>rec.kites. In order for this to work, every one has to know that this
>person is *the* person to send all updates to. This can also be
>accomplished by a weekly posting (maybe a rec.kites FAQ?).

>If you think this is a good or bad idea, speak out. If you want to
>volunteer, speak out even louder! :-)

I tried it in the beginning of 1992, I had a (dBase) database of
events. I collected the info from different sources and posted
a listing of the events in next couple of months to rec.kites.

For some reasons rec.kiters were not emailing me updates;
in three or four months I only got one (1) contribution.

I will not try again, but if somebody will volunteer I am
willing to send her/him my outdated database to start with.

Smooth Winds
Simo.Salanne@csc.fi



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