[UCIMC-Tech] Fwd: [Btp-keystaff] a group of volunteers this afternoon

[Mike Lehman]

I want to make an appeal for working groups to help contribute aid and 
members to the Tech group. Having been through the history of the ups 
and downs of IMC-Tech, all groups at the IMC are dependent on the 
services of Tech and all ought to consider how they can contribute to it.

Tech has dwindled to just a handful of members, who have far too much 
work shoveled onto them. They have put out a call recently for people to 
start attending their meetings, which are at 6pm on Tuesdays, but have 
found little response from what I've heard. Yet I constantly see working 
groups asking for assistance from our overloaded Tech team. In reality, 
you are asking one of two or three people to do something for you.

To avoid the frustration of lengthy waits for Tech help, I'd suggest 
that any working group that regularly relies on Tech support to poll 
their own members to see who has skills that could be of help and ask 
then to get involved with Tech. Expectations that there is a large group 
of Techies just waiting to respond to your requests are far too 
optimistic, given how thin Tech is stretched.

In the past, Tech has had active members from most, if not all, working 
groups. Now it does not and given the structure of the IMC and the 
voluntary nature of Tech work, working groups may have to start calling 
the Geek Squad or someone else who expects to be paid, if they expect a 
quick response. To avoid this increasingly likely scenario, if you 
aren't able to wait until someone has the time to respond, it may be 
because Tech just doesn't have the organizational capacity for quick 
response due to lack of participation by those who might be in a 
position to contribute.
Mike Lehman

Josh King wrote:
> Jay,
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm feeling really ill right now and can't come over to
> take a look. I don't know if anyone else has fixed it yet or not.
>
> Jay Schubert wrote:
>   
>> Tech,
>>
>> Any update about the internet service at the IMC?   BTP has a special
>> group of volunteers arriving any minute to work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Niloofar Shambayati* <Nilu at insightbb.com <mailto:Nilu at insightbb.com>>
>> Date: Sep 13, 2007 11:33 AM
>> Subject: [Btp-keystaff] a group of volunteers this afternoon
>> To: btp-keystaff at lists.chambana.net <mailto:btp-keystaff at lists.chambana.net>
>>
>> Hello all,
>> Liz, from prairie center will bring a group of 5 individuals to
>> volunteer at btp at 2 pm till 3:45. Deb, are you the key staff today?
>> Jane won't be at btp today so please let me know who is going to be
>> there to supervise the new volunteers.  We need letters to be processed
>> for the volunteers to pull out (only 10 letters are ready) but the
>> internet is still out as of 11 am.  Jay, do you know what's wrong with
>> the system? 
>>  
>> Niloofar 
>>
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