[ale] Re: INFO on the next Atlanta Net Day (fwd)

[Robbie Honerkamp]

In our previous episode, Geoffrey Myers was heard to say:
> You know all this stuff really sucks.  People ask for help and then
> place all these requirements on those that would like to.  I understand
> you don't want people screwing things up, but I would suspect you want
> people with common sense, not necessarily CNA's.  I mean, how many CNA's
> do they thing there are and will volunteer.  What are you supposed to
> do if you don't have the certification, get coffee?  Come on, if they
> want the help, there are all kind of folks that can assist.  I would
> think a licensed electrician is pretty good at putting holes in the wall
> in the right place.  Makes a person say, "why bother."

I tried getting in touch with the contact person today, but couldn't 
reach her by phone. I asked an old employer who has contacts in the
Georgia educational community, and this was part of his response:

  [...]
  The way I heard it was that, in Georgia, the "volunteers" would be
  BellSouth employees working on company time.  Smells like a huge tax dodge
  to me.  The materials I saw were quite clear in saying that they would be
  handling all this in-house.
  [...]

If they're handling the entire netday thing in house, what's the point
of even bothering to ask for volunteers? This looks like a big PR thing
to me.

I'm waiting on a return call, though. Maybe things will turn out 
differently. I sure hope so. I tried to put together a NetDay in Georgia
in 1993, but noone was interested. I was really hoping that it
would come together this year.

Robbie

-- 
Robbie Honerkamp
robbie at shorty.com, robbie at grumblesmurf.net, robbie at mindspring.com
http://www.shorty.com/~robbie/
 Supercomputer: Turns CPU-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.