Last night, a historic 2 hour conference call marked the peaceful transition of power from the founding committee of the Buggy Alumni Association to the 50% newly elected committee that will lead us forward into 2011.
We covered administrative details of course, but we wanted to take this moment to step back and appraise our progress towards advancing the five goals stated in our mission. The questions we asked ourselves were, “How have we done in our first two years?” and “What ideas do we have to keep things moving forward?”
Preserve and make accessible the history of the sport
Grade so far : B+
Efforts so far
– Created a database of buggy history, solicited data, and put it on the web
– Created an online gallery of pictures and solicited pictures from the university and alumni
– Helped to promote and facilitate the now-perennial History of Buggy presentations
Ideas for 2011
– Improve the integration between media and history [enable tagging of people / buggies]
– Create a data entry back-end so that new data can be quickly included and not sit in a queue
– Make it easier to contribute pictures and video
– Offer to help digitizing analog pictures and video
– Look into a physical space to archive buggy memorabilia Continue reading
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