On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe the BYU ACM has changed since I was there, but I doubt it. I know > it meets the expectations of many people; it wouldn't be a successful if > it didn't. It just didn't meet mine. > > It might be possible to accept sponsorship without being a puppet, but > my experience has been that most sponsored meetings involve a lot of > marketing and much less learning. The UUG has had successful corporate > sponsored meetings, for example when Byron and Dave brought pizza, > talked about embedded development, and tried to recruit interns. But > Byron and Dave were members first, corporate shills second. They came > wanting to share something cool, not just market to a captive audience. > > I'd rather have a strong culture of freedom than free pizza. > When were you involved with the ACM? We just got it restarted last fall (the semester after I got to BYU). I don't know when it died, but it must have been 2-3 years ago, but I'm not really sure, as records are a bit jumbled... At any rate, I am intrigued by this bit of knowledge. I hope that organizations with some form of sponsorship do not have the general tendency to decay. Unfortunately this is the case. I will have to keep this in mind. Dixie's ACM chapter does not have this problem - they have been going strong for 6 years now, and have survived 3-4 successions. Then again, they get $300 from the college per year, and (at least when I started it) the only other thing we did was beg for prizes from local businesses. We got some $500-600 in prizes for the local high school and DSC programming contests... Quite seriously, I'm going to have to think about this a bit... David
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