roundtable: DIAC-94 Call for Sponsors and Endorsers

roundtable: DIAC-94 Call for Sponsors and Endorsers

DIAC-94 Call for Sponsors and Endorsers

Doug Schuler (douglas@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com)
Wed, 9 Feb 94 13:18:56 PST 

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 13:18:56 PST
From: Doug Schuler <douglas@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com>
Message-Id: <9402102118.AA06506@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com>
To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG
Subject: DIAC-94 Call for Sponsors and Endorsers

TPR members,

I'd like to encourage you all to become sponsors or endorsers of
the upcoming CPSR conference.  Thanks!

-- Doug


		   Call for Sponsors and Endorsers

       Developing an Effective and Equitable Information Infrastructure

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) invites you to
join us in sponsoring a conference on the National Information
Infrastructure (NII).  The NII is a highly-publicized initiative by
the Clinton Administration to provide a broad spectrum of the
population in the United States with access to digital communications.

As an organization of computer users and designers with 11 years of
involvement in public policy issues, CPSR has a crucial perspective to
offer on the NII.  We think our conference will attract a lot of
publicity and be well-attended.

The administration's "Agenda for Action" on the NII is very broad and
has yet to show how it will meet its laudable goals.  CPSR believes
there is a need for discussion concerning commercialization,
regulation, funding, and technical issues.  Our goal is to realize the
highest potential of the NII, the provision of digital communications
to everyone in the country regardless of income, educational level,
location, or physical abilities.

CPSR is the leading organization sponsoring public education on
important issues regarding society's use of computers.  Stemming from
this important role, we have recently initiated a NII project as a
primary focus of our organization.  Our recent annual meeting in
Seattle on "The National Information Infrastructure and Community
Access" and our upcoming "Directions and Implications of Advanced
Computing" (DIAC-94) symposium are both key to this focus.  DIAC-94
will be held April 23 and 24 at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, MA.

The DIAC symposia are biannual, interdisciplinary symposia devoted to 
the social implications of computing that CPSR has sponsored since 1987.
DIAC-94 promises to be a major event in the development of the
next-generation communications and computing network infrastructure.
We are planning to attract between 300 and 400 people from computing,
government, education, libraries, social services, and many other 
communities.  We intend this meeting to be important opportunity for
policy makers, community activists, computer professionals, and many
others to share information, build working relationships, and formulate
policy directions.

We hope you can participate in this conference with us.  Donations,
volunteers, advice, and publicity are all welcome.  We will be
publicly acknowledging participation at two levels: sponsors and
endorsers.  We can also work with you to accommodate your particular
interests.

The benefits of being a sponsor are:

 	1. Recognition on the front of the conference program, in the
 	   proceedings (should one appear), and other literature
 	   mentioning the conference.
 	2. Two free passes to the conference.
	3. Attendance for your members at the same price we charge
	   CPSR members.
 	4. The right to have a member on the program committee, where
	   we review proposals and make policy about the conference.
	5. A booth at the conference where you can distribute your
	   literature.

Requirements for being a sponsor are:

 	1. Donate $500 or more to CPSR earmarked for production of the
	   conference.
 	2. Promote attendance within your organization, such as
 	   giving publicity in the company newsletter and whatever
 	   incentives you normally offer to encourage attendance at
 	   events.
	3. Mail invitations to the conference to your mailing list.
 	4. Encourage members of your organization to volunteer for the
 	   conference.
 	5. Do any other things you would like to help with, such as
	   ideas on people, other sponsors, and topics.

The benefits of being an endorser are:

 	1. Recognition inside the conference program and in the
 	   proceedings (should one appear).
 	2. Two free passes to the conference.
	3. A booth at the conference where you can distribute your
	   literature.

Requirements for being an endorser are the same as for a sponsor,
except that no cash donation is needed.

For more information, contact:

	Andrew Oram
	O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
	90 Sherman Street
	Cambridge, MA  02140

	phone: (617) 499-7479
	fax: (617) 661-1116
	email: andyo@ora.com

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