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Student Chapters - a radically new spinThe next Management Committee Meetings will be on Wednesday, March 2nd and 16th , 2011
Mindful that we either attract more young members or we become increasingly irrelevant, we have been discussing a new approach to student chapters. In the past, a student or faculty member contacted us about setting up a student chapter at a college or university. This is an uphill affair. The need was to find 3 students and/or faculty members who would join the Moon Society. In 2005, we had a student chapter at Brigham Young U. in Provo, Utah, which disbanded when the student leader graduated. In 2009 we had a student chapter at the College of the Menominee Nation - Green Bay campus, which disbanded when the faculty person in charge left the college
Inspired by our visit last November to the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (main U-IL campus) to attend the SEDS SpaceVision Conference, we have been considering how to tap into this pool of existing chapters (currently 28 in North America) of a friendly space-focused organization - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.
Our new idea is to offer these existing chapters something akin to "Institutional Membership" in the Moon Society. At the February 16th Board Meeting, the Moon Society board voted unanimously to "amend the Moon Society's bylaws to institute a new class of membership called a "student organization membership." This class of membership would apply to existing student chapters of other national/international organizations such as SEDS - (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) or FIRST Robotics. These organizations
can become student organizational members of the Moon Society. All rules related to the obligations, duties and privileges of this class of membership are to be determined by the Management Committee."
We will approve the rules at our next Management Committee meeting on March 2nd. Here is what is on the table.
The Candidate Student Chapter of another organization would be the "Member" in our database, not one or more of its leaders. Whether annual dues are involved or not, is to be decided.By tapping an existing pool of space-focused campus organizations, our message will reach far more students.
This organizational membership would come with a username and password, which would be shared with the individual student members involved, with the suggested provision that the password be changed at the beginning of each new academic year, so that former members of the student group would no longer have access to MMM, and be encouraged to join the Society as individual
adult/student members.
If you would like the Management Committee to consider a new initiative or idea, contact president@moonsociety.orgThe next Board of Directors Meeting will be on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
On the agenda, in addition to setting the rules for student organizations, will be a discussion of a proposal to use some of our recent $7,700 Bequest funds to support Chapter activities and projects. We need to reserve funding for those projects that are most promising, especially those from which other chapters can benefit. To date, we have earmarked some of these funds as prize money for contests and engineering competitions.
[The Board must decide all matters that involve modification of the ByLaws and all matters that are specifically referred to the Board in the ByLaws. All other matters can be decided by the Management Committee which includes all Board Directors and all Officers]
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Town Meetings will be held the week before the Board Meetings in February, May, and November - that is, three times a year - There is a calendar listing Society Meetings at the bottom of the Conferences 2010 page. You may download this one-page ready-to-print calendar with several artwork options from the bottom of our Downloads Page.
SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
Next year's SEDS SpaceVision Conference will be held in November, 2011 at the University of Colorado Boulder campus. The Moon Society plans to stay involved.FIRST Robotics
Another group of existing student organizations that may be interconnected to the Moon Society in this fashion are the High School Level FIRST Robotics teams. [FIRST = For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology] Peter Kokh and Directors Dave Dunlop and Bryce Johnson met with a local Rockford Robotics team leader on January 1st. This meeting was very productiveThe National Space Society:
We are collaborating with NSS on several fronts:
- The NSS-Kalam Space Solar Power Initiative
- Engineering Competitions, Design and Art Contests, etc.
- Sharing MMM with several NSS Chapters
- Helping find speakers for the annual International Space Development Conference
- Encouraging more "joint" NSS/Moon Society Chapters: Milwaukee, Portland, and Houston have pioneered this collaboration, and a new joint chapter is in the works for Indianapolis, IN, and Moon Society St. Louis may follow suite.
MMM #242 January 2011 has been published and mailed. MMM #243, March, our annual Mars-Theme issue, is in the worksSpecial "Vector" pages:
The Fall issue of the American Lunar Society's Selenology Quarterly is now ready for download
Members can download MMM pdf files here and Selenology pdf files here (username password required for both) If you have no username and password, or have forgotten it, please contact us as soon as possible and we'll get you up and running
The 21st volume of the MMM Classics has been published,
collecting all the non-time sensitive articles from issues #201-210.
We maintain a minimum lag of three years from the current publication year,
in order to maintain the incentive to maintain membership in the Society.
All MMM Classics volumes, one per each publication year, can be freely downloaded (no username and password needed), in pdf format from http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_classics/
The MMM-India Quarterly #9 was published February 15th.
All "M3IQ" issues may be freely downloaded from this address
http://www.moonsociety.org/india/mmm-india/
MOONSCAPES first five issues have been published and sent to all current email addresses on file.
The sixth issue will be published shortly.
If you have not received a copy, write moonscapes@moonsociety.org
These issues are archived online at: http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/moonscapes/2010/
You can always unsubscribe at any time by simply clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each issue.
NOTE: f you are a user of Verizon'x or Earthlink's spam-blocking services and do not check requests to whitelist certain Moon Society addresses (president@moonsociety.org, teamdirector@moonsociety.org, kokhmmm@aol.com), you will not receive it.
Any "blocked" email addresses will be removed from our database; cooperation is a two-way street1
Your input on the first and future issues will be much appreciated.
MMM Themes Collections - http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_themes/
The following issues have been published:
Some additional planned issues:
- Mars 1 & 2
- Eden on the Moon 1 & 2 - (environmental themes)
- Select Editorials
- Asteroids
- Tourism
- Research
- Lunar Analog Research - published September, 2010
These Theme Issues are, like the Classics, free access pdf files, no member username and password needed. See download address above.
- Lavatubes on Moon and Mars
- The Lunar Economy (Exo-economics)
- At Home on the Moon
- Lunar surface activities
These publications will appear as we find time to put them together. A fringe benefit of organizing all past articles by theme, is that it can serve as preparation for an eventual “MMM the Book.” That is a project title, not the book title, which will be determined later.
Members and visitors may wonder what the Moon Society stance may be on interrelated space issues. The following pages are now online:
- http://www.moonsociety.org/mars/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/asteroids/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/tourism/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/research/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/art/ - the idea behind this page is to help members and visitors visualize the possibilities!
- http://www.moonsociety.org/flag/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/humor/ - under construction
We hope to make these pages accessible by direct link from our homepage. The current idea is to add a "Vectors Menu" just below the "Destinations Menu" in the right hand column of our homepage.
If you have a "high frontier" tale in you, work it out and email it to moonbeams@moonsociety.org2011 1-sheet Meetings Calendars has been published
To download the first six issues, go to the archive site Moonbeams issues are freely available in pdf file format, and members and visitors are welcome to circulate them freely and widely. The purpose is to provide fictional illustrations of what life could like on the Lunar Frontier and elsewhere within the Solar System.
Just print on card stock and frame
An updated look at chapter events.What is an "Outpost?"
An Outpost consists of one or more members in a local community that serve as (a) local contact(s) for area members and prospective members of the Society, and which have not yet met the qualifications to be given a chapter charter. To establish an outpost and become a local contact person for the society, write the Chapters Coordinator. There is no reason why a prospective campus chapter cannot start as an outpost, one or more not-yet-organized members.
LATIN AMERICA - visit our Espaņol page - our Spanish language clone is in very early stages of constructionINDIA
Chile
Moon/Mars Atacama Research Station - .Funding is being handled through the University of Antofagasta, a major seaport in northern Chile. $500,000 has been committed so far.
An expedition to pick the site is planned for March 2011. The land is owned by the European Southern Observatory which operates the ALMA Radio Telescope array in the area.
MMM-Spanish Quarterly Protect Update - June 7, 2010
"Manifiesto Mineros de la Luna Trimestral" - proposed title, translation double checked
Dave Dunlop, Moon Society Director of Project Development and Society President Pater Kokh, have worked on a plan to advance this project. Peter will:
1) Solicit articles from known Spanish-speaking colleagues,This project needs not just a special Editor but an Editorial Team with members from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and other interested countries, including someone from the Spanish speaking community in the U.S.
2) Have Goggle translate existing and new MMM articles
3) Provide or suggest some illustrations
4) Perhaps a fresh appeal to members for a volunteer editor
5) Consult with NSS, who might want to cosponsor such a publication
In the meantime, we will address the items listed above.
Note: We have been encouraged to set up school-based chapters in Chile on the basis of English materials alone, as English-fluency is common among Chilean students. We may have an opportunity to get started on our visit to the University of Antofagasta currently planned for "late March" 2011. The purpose of this visit is to pick the exact location for the analog research station. We are not quite confident that this trip will indeed happen, as now that the University is in charge, it might deicde to pick the site on its own.
See MMM-India Quarterly - a free access pdf file newsletter
MMM-India Quarterly #9 was published February 16th. M3IQ #10 should be published in April.
The Newly announced Moon Society India is moving swiftly to come into its own. Indian writers have contributed a major portion of the recent issues of Moon Miners' Manifesto - India Quarterly - "M3IQ" as we have come to call it.Eventually, M3IQ will get a new name and a new look and be put together inside India. This is as it should be, and we in the Moon Society look forward to the Moon Society India organization coming into its own, with pride and satisfaction.
This time the dates are for the weekend before Memorial Day WeekendJuly 26 - August 7th, 2011 - 40th anniversary of Apollo 15 - we are considering a number of contests and competitions
