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Community service
Apr. 27th, 2004 06:12 pmSo now I am on two committees, one fannish, one what we fans fondly call mundane, both I hope useful.
Corflu, the fanzine fans' convention, will be held in the Bay Area next year. I am the registrar. (Pooh-Bah: "I am the Registrar." - The Mikado, Act 2, line 824) We have 38 members who signed up as early birds, and I will be taking money again once we have a hotel and a date and therefore a budget. Probably the last weekend in February, but don't hold us to that yet. Some time in Feb that's not Boskone, and probably a weekend adjacent to Potlatch. We have a preferred hotel in our sights and several backups in waiting.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spikeiowa is putting PR1 to bed. More info will be at www.corflu.org when we have it.
Our little neighborhood is forming a Neighborhood Association, and the organizational meeting was last night. Sounded like it'll be a good forum for expressing my interest in traffic-calming measures locally; and, having confirmed that this is an association for the purpose of waving its arms in front of the city council and school board and saying "Hey, we've got something to say over here," rather than an association for the purpose of telling people they can't have tv antennas on their roofs or things like that, I am now on the Traffic Committee. We'll see what, if anything, comes of that.
Speaking up at the meeting seemed to catch me some attention from the organizers, who included some experienced local politicians. And I was pleased I didn't turn into the resident gadfly: a guy in the back row fell into that job. Having survived a few WSFS Business Meetings, I find no terror in a group like this, and meetings of this kind are more my speed in local politics than sitting in the audience at big-city council meetings, or informal chatting with neighbors on the street. "Hi Neighbor, what do you think of the traffic issue?" No. I'd do that with all the ease and fluency of Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Meetings are much easier.
Corflu, the fanzine fans' convention, will be held in the Bay Area next year. I am the registrar. (Pooh-Bah: "I am the Registrar." - The Mikado, Act 2, line 824) We have 38 members who signed up as early birds, and I will be taking money again once we have a hotel and a date and therefore a budget. Probably the last weekend in February, but don't hold us to that yet. Some time in Feb that's not Boskone, and probably a weekend adjacent to Potlatch. We have a preferred hotel in our sights and several backups in waiting.
spikeiowa is putting PR1 to bed. More info will be at www.corflu.org when we have it.Our little neighborhood is forming a Neighborhood Association, and the organizational meeting was last night. Sounded like it'll be a good forum for expressing my interest in traffic-calming measures locally; and, having confirmed that this is an association for the purpose of waving its arms in front of the city council and school board and saying "Hey, we've got something to say over here," rather than an association for the purpose of telling people they can't have tv antennas on their roofs or things like that, I am now on the Traffic Committee. We'll see what, if anything, comes of that.
Speaking up at the meeting seemed to catch me some attention from the organizers, who included some experienced local politicians. And I was pleased I didn't turn into the resident gadfly: a guy in the back row fell into that job. Having survived a few WSFS Business Meetings, I find no terror in a group like this, and meetings of this kind are more my speed in local politics than sitting in the audience at big-city council meetings, or informal chatting with neighbors on the street. "Hi Neighbor, what do you think of the traffic issue?" No. I'd do that with all the ease and fluency of Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Meetings are much easier.
