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Subject: Re: SHARE & no handouts(?)
In a message dated 3/1/2008 6:51:32 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Going Green" is a euphemism for "we want to save money by not providing
copiers at the conference". SHARE does not discourage speakers from
distributing
paper handouts; it just doesn't want to incur the cost of printing them.
IMO, "going green" was a convenient spin to justify the policy change.
So the "green" does not mean eco-friendly but rather refers to the color
of
the FERNs [1] being saved?
What about providing copiers that are not free? You copy your paper and
pay
for how many pages you copied. SHARE could still be non-profit if they
computed the charge per page properly. Or instead of a copier there
could be a
page in the final agenda (is that still being printed? how much paper is
wasted on that thing?) with directions to all the retail stores nearby
which have
pay-per-use copiers (Kinko's, e.g.).
The lowest price onsite was $.25/image (not page, image, so 2-sided was
$.50). Even if you could get offsite to Kinko's, speakers such as myself
giving 6 presentations could well spend over $1000 on repro.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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