[Air-l] call for virtual volunteers
T Kennedy
tkennedy at netwomen.ca
Thu Oct 7 07:41:15 PDT 2004
So, we have established that a lot of unpaid work is involved in not only
putting a F2F conference together, but also one that includes some elements
of virtuality in it. Yes, some of us are feeling guilty, but that still
doesn't alleviate the workload that we all have. Where do we go from here?
I don't think we need people running cameras per se. What about IChat or
Web-Cams in sessions? What I am thinking is the session organizer can try
and organize this for his/her session. If we have laptops in every
presentation room, we could have IChat or Web-Cams with the laptop and
projector. I don't think it is overly complicated (but I could be wrong).
Have we considered sponsorship from somewhere? We have had Apple products on
display before - would they be willing to contribute either some cash or
hardware to the event? We don't know if we don't ask. Anyone with
connections?
Perhaps we can gather some people who are interested in discussing whether
this will work (and if we can afford it) off the list. Even if we start off
on a small scale for next year to test this all - like the keynotes or a
handful of sessions.
What about a call for virtual volunteers who can put some time into this?
I will field the "call for virtual volunteers" - to discuss the
implementation of virtuality at the next AoIR conference and then we can go
from there.....if there are no takers, then that takes care of that.
email me
tkennedy at netwomen.ca
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Tracy L.M. Kennedy
PhD Candidate and
NetLab Research Associate
Department. of Sociology
University of Toronto, Ontario
www.netwomen.ca/Blog
tkennedy at netwomen.ca
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