{"id":98,"date":"2008-04-29T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buggyalums.wordpress.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-04-29T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T20:37:15","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2008\/04\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome &#038; Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>\nThis is a draft of an Alumni Buggy Group proposal, compiled from ideas and comments we&#8217;ve received.<\/p>\n<p>The Purpose of creating an Alumni Buggy &#8220;brain trust&#8221; is to preserve and archive the history of Sweepstakes, while fostering undergraduate participation and increased competition in the sport of Buggy, going forward.<\/p>\n<p>We would view this as an expansion on an Alumni Interest Group, with a broader goal to promote the University and its traditions, offer fundraising support and impact current and future students.<\/p>\n<p>Our first task will be to get Carnegie Mellon to sanction and host an official, non-partisan Alumni Buggy web forum where we can further develop ideas laid out in this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime&#8230;we&#8217;d like any and all feedback from alumni, before we make a formal presentation to CMU to create this group. We&#8217;ve broken it down by category for discussion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?page_id=94\"><strong>I. Alumni Web Forum<br \/>\n<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buggyalums.wordpress.com\/alumni-communications\/\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?page_id=95\">II. Other Alumni Communications &amp; Promotion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?page_id=96\">III. Campus Awareness &amp; Education<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?page_id=97\">IV. Buggy Alumni Projects<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, This is a draft of an Alumni Buggy Group proposal, compiled from ideas and comments we&#8217;ve received. The Purpose of creating an Alumni Buggy &#8220;brain trust&#8221; is to preserve and archive the history of Sweepstakes, while fostering undergraduate participation and increased competition in the sport of Buggy, going forward. We would view this as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buggy-alumni-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}