OK, so what site do we link to in our cross-country advertising efforts
like on Google and in ICON, or you think we need to buy four different ads
on Google and have four stands at ICON because the clubs can't cooperate
between themselves?
You think that the clubs should/must cooperate between themselves. I say that each site should take care of itself, and there should be one "central unit" which its purpose is to sync between the clubs, by checking:
1) What are every clubs' needs.
2) Where lecturers are needed.
3) Financial support for all kinds of problems and ideas.
Each club should talk to ONE central unit which is in charge to collect all this information and mungle it to something useful, if possible. This central unit shouldn't bother each club but can advice (not force) each club what to do, according to the central unit's priorities and resources.
You can't expect each club to broadcast its needs all around, hoping that each club will listen and take care of the rest. This kind of sharing is nice when we're talking about file-sharing, but not about real-life events :) Each club, after all, is unique and should act like an autonomy. The TA crowd is not the Jerusalem crowd, is not Haifa's crowd, etc. If we get to the fact that the central unit forces the clubs to do what he asks them to do, or in other words, it gets to demanding - the central unit is not doing something right, and we miss the beauty of each club. The simplest example is the general w2l site. This should give short info about the events and should link to the CLUBS sites. Each club should take care of its event site, and this way we're all satisfied:
1) each club took care of its own autonomy
2) the central unit did very little work and can work with the pointer and not with the clubs themselves
If you want to help as a central unit, you actually should act like a matching and sync unit, and not as a brute-force communist unit. In other words I say that if this is not possible to let each club do its way and get one unit to sync between the events, we should let each club take care of itself, and a unit like Hamakor can help at a FCFS basis. Nobody said that you have to run after the clubs and give each club a seperate advertisment, etc.
Adir.
