{"id":87,"date":"2008-10-28T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=87"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:22:47","slug":"thanks-for-a-successful-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2008\/10\/thanks-for-a-successful-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for a successful kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that everyone has had time to travel home and get back to reality, we wanted to thank everyone who came and made the Buggy Alumni Association&#8217;s kickoff weekend a really big success. It definitely felt more like carnival than homecoming seeing so many buggy folks around campus. We&#8217;ve only officially existed for a couple of months, and I think we&#8217;ve got a lot of momentum. Some stats to make the point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve now got over <a title=\"Registered Alumni\" href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/Forum\/memberlist.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 buggy alumni<\/a> registered here on the website.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dues paying members\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/CMU\/events\/attendance.cgi?tmpl=attendance&amp;event=2212486&amp;sort=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 people<\/a> have registered as dues-paying-members through the website, and many more did so this weekend in person.\u00a0 Those numbers are still being tallied<\/li>\n<li>Our history database already has information on <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/History\/?p=People\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,592 people<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/History\/?p=Buggies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">196 buggies<\/a> plus many <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/History\/?p=Contribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data contributions<\/a> that we haven&#8217;t had time to add to the database yet.<\/li>\n<li>The website has had over 1,600 visits from more than 800 people in just 2 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2008-2009\/Homecoming-Oct-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pictures from Homecoming<\/a> and let us know in the forums what you&#8217;d like to see happen at Carnival.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to see everyone back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that everyone has had time to travel home and get back to reality, we wanted to thank everyone who came and made the Buggy Alumni Association&#8217;s kickoff weekend a really big success. It definitely felt more like carnival than homecoming seeing so many buggy folks around campus. We&#8217;ve only officially existed for a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buggy-alumni-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}