I'm emailing everyone to inform you that our paperwork has finally gone through and we are now an official club here on campus! (Or at least we have a CampusGroups page...I've yet to receive any additional information regarding the matter beyond a "your club has been approved"). Regardless, we can now begin developing the club and its membership.
Here are a few goals I'd like to accomplish over the following semester:
- Have our first meetings. If we're all on or near campus this semester, I'd love to have in person meetings, e.g in the tent outside the SU. Otherwise, we could have online meetings (or simply communicate via CampusGroups forums or email, should synchronous online meetings prove ineffective)
- Finish setting up the CampusGroups page. I'm going to try and contribute whenever I have spare time, but if you've got prior experience with navigating this unique website, please let me know! I'll get you edit access to the club's sites and we can begin setting things up around here.
- Recruit more members! My casual probes have already found several people; I'm sure there are plenty more on campus who would be interested in something like this. Spread the word to your friends!
- Set up a "shack", or at least gather some club equipment -- while this will probably need to wait until next semester (since requesting budgets from the SGA, etc. takes a while) we could collect dues and get some very simple club equipment together. I'm going to look into obtaining a space for at the very least storage of club equipment -- we could potentially put everything on a cart and just operate "field day" style, if we can't get a hold of an actual office.
- Accomplish some things as a club: Even with the equipment I've brought with me (some HTs, and a bunch of test equipment like scopes and VNAs) we can still get some things done. Satellite operation seems like a promising option, and a field day exercise operating satellite will be a great way to attract new members (this is an aerospace school) and start building camaraderie as a group.
Thanks for your time,
Paul