[9068] in APO News
Ride Board
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christina B Hawkes)
Mon Oct 2 04:15:03 2006
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:13:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christina B Hawkes <riv@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@MIT.EDU
So. APO has this ride board. It's a big map that lives next to Lobdell
and theoretically is a way for people to coordinate long-distance rides
around the country. As far as anyone knows, this hasn't seen a lot of use
in the last 10 years or so. Something should happen to it, and I can't
think of a way to revitalize it in its current form now that the internet
exists as a more convenient way for people to communicate and organize
things.
This doesn't mean we're going to just give the space to the CAC for
generic postering, though I think that would be preferable to having our
name on something that's defunct. What should we do instead? Some ideas
we talked about at the last exec meeting (or that I've thought of since
then):
-Run an MIT+Boston service opportunities bulletin board/postering area
(probably in conjunction with the PSC, but with us doing the week-to-week
cleanup and updating) with upcoming projects by us and other groups and
permanent group contact information
-Run an online ride board equivalent for the MIT community (yes,
craigslist exists, but it's sketchy!). People may not go to the trouble
of filling out cards in the student center, but the romance of road trips
never dies. We have coders (IAP?)
-Use the space for small on-the-wall drop-off boxes for useful but not
horrendously valuable/stealable donation items (like old eyeglasses for
the vision-correction-for-the-poor Lions Club initiative)
Note that so far, none of the ideas are mutually exclusive.
There's a lot of neat stuff that could happen with this space, and I think
it'd be great to make it more useful to more of the MIT community. What
other services can you see us doing with such a space? Send your ideas to
me or apo-exec. More discussion can happen at the upcoming chapter
meeting, and a definite decision will be made by the next exec meeting.
If you think the physical ride board is really cool and MIT people just
suck for not using it, let me know how you think we could get people to
start using it again (and, ideally, volunteer to be ride board chair and
make it happen). If you want to have some group discussion about this via
email, put yourself on apo-discuss and flame away :)
YiLFS,
riv
PS: if any of you cruftier folk remember under what authority we have the
ride board space currently, please let me know, since I should probably
talk to them about whatever changes we end up making (and I haven't found
such info in the locker).
