> The best way to help small chapters is to build an organization that can > help them effectively, which is why we wrote the bylaws.
I brought this up at the by-laws meeting and am willing to do so again: many of the problems that chapters face are not necessarily able to be fixed by Deus ex Machina. A lot of the problems involve lack of interest on a certain campus (see below) and, sometimes, a particular chapter head's lack of leadership ability or organizational skills. No amount of throwing money or tickets to conferences or even resources at them will necessarily help. If there aren't a lot of students interested in the topics, that's > exactly why Students for Free Culture exists. Chapters should build a > network of interested people, but that's only one aspect. Another > aspect, maybe the more important one, is outreach to people who don't > know anything. Evangelize! Students are impressionable, but often not that impressionable. The fact of the matter is that the college campus is extremely fragmented in terms of interests and each group can only have a limited appeal. This is especially true at smaller colleges and colleges that don't have any focus on technology (because while, yes, Free Culture appeals to people who aren't computer geeks, there's no denying that an being a geek is the #1 gateway drug to FCdom). Alumni are not students. People between college and grad school are > alumni, and not students. If this is the case, then why was somebody who was not a student running this organization that is focused on students? Extension schools are an interesting question, but we can cross that > bridge when we come to it. I think we're there--we have quite a few of these in our organization. BTW I think it's great that clearly, most of the people posting in this discussion are NOT students because you all have way too much free time on your hands =P Back to my 15 page paper, Christina
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