Re: [ARSCLIST] Open Call - Forming a New York Chapter of ARSC

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Dave,

I strongly support the formation of a NY local chapter. Given that what 
I do encompasses many things that do not relate to the central mission 
statement of ARSC, it will be a long time before my employer will send 
me to another national ARSC conference (I presented a paper in Seattle 
and was given a small stipend to attend). It would be good to keep in 
firsthand contact with some of the membership, at least, and I feel that 
a local chapter would have the sort of meetings that I could attend 
without too much fanfare and corporate support. I see many postings on 
this list from members who seem to be local and it would be good to meet 
with them face to face if they are also inclined to take part in chapter 
activities.

So, count me in.

Peter Hirsch
NYPL (among other things)

Dave Nolan wrote:
> Hello All :-)
>
> And greetings from warm and sunny New York City...
>
> At this past Tuesday's AES New York Section meeting (featuring a
> presentation on the subject of audio archiving), a number of ARSC members
> who happened to be in attendance were speaking after the meeting when the
> subject of forming a New York Chapter of ARSC came up.
>
> There are certainly many active "members in good standing" of ARSC in New
> York City and the surrounding areas, and based on the interest in the Audio
> Archiving workshops and tutorials as well as the technical committee and
> standards committee meetings at the recent New York AES Convention (not to
> mention the large turnout for the AES Section meeting on archiving), we feel
> that there is enough interest and activity in the New York area to sustain
> the formation of a New York Chapter of ARSC.
>
> SO
>
> To this end, I would like to see a virtual "show of hands" here, as the ARSC
> bylaws say that we need 10 members in good standing to form a local chapter.
>  There were 7 of us talking after the AES meeting, so I'm hoping that there
> are at least 3 more of us (and hopefully many more) who would like to sign
> on to such an effort.
>
> At the suggestion of the other NY ARSC-ies who discussed this idea at the
> AES meeting, I have gotten in touch with Sam Brylawski, Peter Shambarger,
> and David Seubert, who have all given us the basic encouraging "thumbs-up"
> to pursue this further.
>
> The bylaws have a couple of other steps to create a chapter, such as drawing
> up a "governing document" (Karen Fishman @ LOC is kindly sending me the DC
> Chapter's document as an example), and submitting a proposal for a local
> chapter to be approved by the emebership at the next national meeting this
> March in Palo Alto.
>
> We already have several kind offers of meeting space, and it would be great
> to get the ball rolling by having a get-together some time in the
> not-too-distant future to see who-all in the New York area might be interested.
>
> Please respond to both the ARSC-list AND my personal e-mail - DaveNolanAudio
> AT earthlink DOT net (spelling it out to avoid the spambots), as I think it
> would be good for other list members to see what the level of interest is
> like.  
>
> Later tonight I will also send out a version this message out to all ARSC
> members in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut member lists in the
> ARSC directory (assuming that not everybody in the directory is on this
> listserv - apologies in advance if you get duplicate messages when I do
> this).  I will be happy to coordinate some preliminary activity to get this
> rolling - and I would be incredibly glad to see a New York Chapter of ARSC
> get off the ground :-)
>
> Thanks - and hope to hear from you soon!
>
> dave nolan
> 92nd Street Y
> nyc
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