[Nfbc-info] Convention reports

[Hoby Wedler]

Mary,

That indeed was a great convention!

Here are my thoughts on the individual meetings I attended:
1. National Association of Blind Students:

Run by Arielle Silverman, this was an excellent, information-packed meeting. 
I feel that out of all the individual sessions I attended, this was the most 
informative. This could be due largely to the fact that I am a student and 
the information discussed at the meeting effected me directly. The meeting 
was long but adequate in length and again, extrordinarily informative! 
Topics included ECS testing, bookshare, RFB&D, Blackboard, and several 
others.

2. Science and Engineering Division: Run by President John Miller, this was 
another informative session packed with useful info to both students of 
science and engeneering and to professionals in these fields. Though I only 
was able to hear the last half of this, it was still completely worth it!

3. Bookshare.org Party:
At this open-floor session, individuals from bookshare.org spoke at length 
about their website and its benefits. What I enjoyed and appreciated most 
about this meeting is that the presenters were very willing and excited to 
accept constructive criticism. They loved the good things people said but 
they loved people mentioning the items that needed to be fixed even more. 
One potential problem was that it seemed like at least a large percentage of 
the crowd was there for their food selection and not just to talk about 
bookshare. All in all, this session was very informative and rewarding 
because we were able to talk to the people at the top of the company and 
give them our advice as active users.

Other special sessions I attended include the resolutions committee meeting, 
the mock trial, and a few others. I was unable to stay at any of these for 
very long so I don't want to comment on them.

Again, great convention! California is in great hands with you as president!

-- Hoby

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From: "Mary Willows" <mwillows at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: [Nfbc-info] Convention reports

> Greetings Fellow Federationists,
> I trust everyone got home from Dallas safely.  I know you hear this all 
> the time but, that really was a great convention.  Now that the schedule 
> is one day shorter it seems even more difficult to attend all the division 
> and special interest meetings at a national convention.
>
> That is why I am writing this message.  I would really appreciate it if 
> you could take out just a few minutes to write down your thoughts and 
> feelings about the individual meetings which you attended in Dallas.  A 
> couple of paragraphs would be fine.  Tell us where you went and a brief 
> summary of the speakers you heard or topics which were discussed.  I would 
> like to get your reports up on the website so everyone can read them.
>
> Thank you,
> Mary Willows, President
> National Federation of the Blind of California
> mwillows at sbcglobal.net
>
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