Goals for the first meeting were to elect officers, lay groundwork for bylaws and formalization as an official Alumni Interest Group, discuss committees, and brainstorm ideas for the upcoming official website.
Attending: Tom Wood, Carsen Kline, Sam Swift, Aiton Goldman, Chris Stengel
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Your fearless leaders are:
Carsen Kline, President
Aiton Goldman, Vice President
Chris Stengel, Treasurer
Sam Swift, Secretary
Tom Wood will be an advisor and guiding force for history and preservation efforts. Sarah McMullen will be our connection to Alumni Relations.
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The official name of our Alumni Interest Group, pending approval of our formalization request, will be the Carnegie Mellon Buggy Alumni Association, or BAA for short. We generated ideas for a first draft of the bylaws, and following some polishing by Dani, some brief discussion, and approval by Alumni Relations, will be posted here.
The general goals and purpose of this group will be to grow the sport, bring alumni like us together, and get the community more involved and educated.
In turn, membership is planned to be non-exclusive, generally open to anyone who loves buggy or wants to know more about it. Dues were discussed, but no official rulings have been made. They will likely be nominal to encourage greater membership.
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Committees and tentative heads will be posted here soon.
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Ideas that we could help fund or support: more trophies/categories for races; better scoreboard; more tv screens around the course; activities for kids (e.g., safe buggy ride) at Carnival and Homecoming; design comp prizes to encourage more participation; Buggy Graduates Job Placement Network (recognize talent and experience instead of GPA); stream more events (like HoB) on the web for far flung alums; voluntary chip timing for freerolls in which only participating orgs have access to the data
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Website ideas: Forum, history, rolls reports, team profiles/home pages, individual profiles, how to support buggy/BAA, social network tie-ins (Facebook, Linked-In, etc.), Hall of Fame, polls, calendar of buggy events
Meeting time approx. 3 hrs. Next one planned for early June.
Carl Nott says:
Nice to hear that things are rolling along! I do like your ideas. I would love to have an online location with simply all of the raceday results. All as in times for every team that rolled each year. I’m also really excited about the idea of chip timing for freerolls. That could be a great tool for seeding and safety.