[SCA-BMDL] cmu activities fair

[Dmitriy Ryaboy]

I'm not quite that old, and even a student :-)

We had a decent response -- collected a couple dozen emails.  From my
prior college recruting experience, that nets about 4-5 people who
show up to a meeting, 2-3 who show up to more than one, and 1 or maybe
2 who actually stick around for a while (*raises hand...*).

A few of the folks we talked to went to events or had friends who did
back in their hometown and/or undergrad school, so those have a
slightly better retention rate.

-Dmitriy


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:12 PM, L.J. Rodriguez <rufinasca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hmmmm.  couple things occur to me as a read this. and yes i know the demo is
> over - i don't get to email every day...
>
> 1) this is a student demo. shouldn't students be at the table?
>
> 2) if we don't have enuf students from CMU to do the demo, do we have
> students from PITT who could come up and do it? pitch it as a joint venture?
>
> 3) as someone who spent @20 years as a college student, i'm not sure that a
> bunch of middle age people would attract students. for example the response
> might be something like:  "look at that club! they look like my mom & dad!
> i'm not interested in hanging out with old people!"  perhaps we should try
> and people the table with folks who are at least CLOSE to college age?
>
> 4) have we attracted and kept anyone from these demos in recent years? not
> saying we shouldn't try mind you, just wondering on the stats...
>
> 5) if we don't make attracting students one of our priorities, then we need
> to attract other people from somewhere else, lest we die as an organization,
> no?
>
> 6) are we a die-ing organization? (and yes, i know we are a dye-ing
> organization ;)
>
> this is just the thought processes that were spawned from reading about
> student demos....
>
> rufina
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Cara & Char <charb at mail.connecttime.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sir Dmitriy, one of your emails to us probably bounced since we never got
>> detailed instructions on checking in.  The CMU activities fair, though we
>> recognize it's great importance, has not traditionally been something us
>> working folk can attend.  I'm cc'ing myself and Byron about this since he
>> is
>> off at 3pm today (we just found this out yesterday - he's working the
>> early
>> shift), but he's already at work with no garb etc.  If you can contribute
>> any time (such as walk over and pull up the local website or SCA website
>> on
>> your laptop assuming CMU campus has wireless), it would be wonderful.  If
>> there's a limited check-in that you miss and Byron can't do it, then
>> that's
>> okay.
>> Thank you,
>> Ariella
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dmitriy Ryaboy" <dvryaboy at gmail.com>
>> To: "Cara & Char" <caram at pitt.edu>
>> Cc: "Ashley Capps" <arcapps at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: cmu activities fair
>>
>>
>> > Happy to help -- Rosalia, just let me know what to do.
>> >
>> > -D
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Cara & Char
>> > <charb at mail.connecttime.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Sir Dmitriy, thank you for offering! We do need your name and andrew
>> >> account
>> >> since our two CMU contacts both graduated recently.  I will cc Rosalia
>> >> (mka
>> >> Ashley Capps) about this and she can let you know how that would work.
>> >> We
>> >> definitely are not asking you to be an Officer for the Barony but your
>> >> andrew account is very helpful.
>> >> Thank you,
>> >> Ariella
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitriy Ryaboy"
>> >> <dvryaboy at gmail.com>
>> >> To: <caram at pitt.edu>
>> >> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:02 AM
>> >> Subject: cmu activities fair
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi, I just looked at the BMDL archives and saw that you might need me
>> >>> to register as an officer to get a table at the activities fair. I am
>> >>> happy to lend my name (and andrew account) to the cause, though I
>> >>> don't think I will have much time for actual officership.. Do you have
>> >>> any details on what need to happen to get this going?
>> >>>
>> >>> -Dmitriy
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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