2nd Asha for Education Conference

Boston, MA
29-31 May 1999

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All Asha volunteers interested in participating are urged to register in advance. Asha volunteers who plan to come to the conference should let the organizers know by 16th April 1999, so that arrangements can be made for lodging and food for the appropriate number of people. Please be punctual about this. The organizers will not be responsible for people who inform about their plans after 22 April 1999.

If you are planning to attend, please send the following information to : Rajesh ( kasturi@ai.mit.edu)


(a) Mode of arrival, i.e., plane, train, car, foot. Flight number, arrival time and whether you want someone to pick you up.
(b) If you are willing to stay at an ASHA-MIT volunteers house. If not, you should let us know if you plan to stay in a hotel or at a friends house.
(c) Any dietary restrictions with regard to food (vegetarian etc.).

Asha-MIT will try to accommodate all Asha volunteers who attend, at the houses of Asha-MIT volunteers. For details, please contact Rajesh Kasturirangan (kasturi@ai.mit.edu)

Attendees will make their own arrangements to get to Boston (fly, drive, walk). If you need more information, please send mail to Rajesh Kasturirangan (kasturi@ai.mit.edu)

Volunteers are needed for various activties. If you would like to volunteer your time/financial resources please contact Rajesh Kasturirangan (kasturi@ai.mit.edu)

Those of us who can afford will sponsor these positions/tasks. If you'd like to sponsor any of these tasks kindly drop a note asap along with the amount $50, $100 ... whatever.

Students who'd like assistance can take up these tasks and earn the assistance. If you'd like to sign up for a task kindly let Ranjit Kumar ( ranjit@legato.com) know asap.

There is no guarantee all tasks will be sponsored.

Here is a partial list of tasks -

• Moderators for discussions. Tell folks to stop when digressing. Make sure the debate is on course and not meandering/digressing.
  
• Someone to take down meeting minutes, and post the story, decisions etc. on the infoshare pages.
  
• Photographs with captions covering folks from various chapters. Get some comments etc. Mostly for reminiscing.
  
• Yet unknown tasks arising from the conference.
  
• Audio tapes of the talks.
  
• Video recordings of the meetings.
  
We need multiple moderators, meeting minute takers etc. So please sponsor and please sign up asap.

If you have already sent your name for assistance or for sponsoring - pls let Ranjit ( ranjit@legato.com) know where should your effort/money go to.