I have started putting the sidewalk astronomy dates on FB. I will add these
to the web site, and fill in the star party dates, next opportunity I have.
Not sure I can do it on this device.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
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On Fri, 1/19/18, John Riegel <riegel.john@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [SAS-BOD] Re: Star Party
To: sasbod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, January 19, 2018, 10:59 AM
I found myself
getting confused on all the events. Must ask - why
aren't us, the page admins - putting these outreach
dates on our public calendar: That's on me and
you:http://www.spokaneastronomical.org/?post_type=tribe_events
I believe Nick gave everyone active on this
thread contributor writes to Wordpress - it is easy. There
is no good excuse NOT to put this out there IMO. Who
knows, if we get a little more organized and promote
outreach to our membership with the calendar we might pickup
some people. We need that.
Note I'm NOT saying push outreach to FB, just
to our web site. Although that is an interesting topic.
Yes, anyone with contributor rights can manage
events. We could also have a practice of adding a
"DSN Credit" tag after an event is complete so we
have a way to track that someone remembered to log events
there.
Yes, I know there are a few people in our
membership that should NOT do outreach at schools or in any
way represent our club. But that is a risk we have managed
down - they are NOT showing up to outreach now where these
events are openly promoted in newsletter and meeting
forums.
To summarize my point - we have a very cool
little web site which is easy for anyone to post events.
We should use it.
(and yes, I was on a long boring conference call
when I wrote this) Enjoy your
weekend!
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018
at 7:46 PM, Jenny Harrington <jharrington110@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I
volunteer to be the point of contact for the INLC and to
handle setting up events if the board wants to follow up on
this.
-Jen
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018
at 7:44 PM, Jenny Harrington <jharrington110@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This looks very interesting and
something I'd like to help with. I don't think we
should aim for perfectly dark skies or a remote site like
Fishtrap with a group like INLC. Their job is conserving
land, ours is a focus on preserving dark skies. We can
combine this by having a party in conjunction with them on
one of their more urban properties, such as at the easement
they secured for Riverside state park or similar. It gives
them a chance to show the benefits of conserved, wild areas
near urban areas, and us a chance to show why the dark skies
near urban areas need to be preserved.
An outreach partnership with INLC could be very cool
and also prove very beneficial for astronomy long term in
the area.
-Jen
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018
at 7:21 PM, Debbie Cotten <cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dave
Yes we would be interested.
We tend to have our dark sky star Parties out at the
Fishtrap there is parking out at the trail head. But if you
have land that you would perfer to have a star party at I am
sure we could work with you. I am forwarding this to our
board, so they know what is going on.
Debbie
Outreach, Event
Coordinator of
The Spokane Astronomical Society
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx
509-991-2518
On January 18, 2018 at
5:22 PM Dave Schaub <dschaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi
Debbie,I’m
the director of the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy; we
are putting together a calendar of events for the coming
year and have discussed the possibility of doing some kind
of stargazing outing on one of our pieces of conserved land.
Would the Astronomy Club be interested in partnering on such
an event? We are currently flexible regarding date and
place, and open to any suggestions.Thanks,Dave Dave SchaubExecutive
DirectorInland Northwest Land
Conservancy35
W. Main Ave., Ste. 210Spokane,
WA 99201W. 509-328-2939C. 509-944-6820dschaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.inlandnwland.org
