[GAP] Volunteers needed for ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Raleigh, March 1 - 3

[John McCormick]

For nearly 20 years SIGAda has brought a booth to the exhibit hall at 
the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.   We talk with attendees about using Ada 
in the classroom and research projects.  We give away Ada Lovelace 
buttons, papers describing real-world projects in which Ada is used, and 
brochures explaining the benefits of GAP membership.  It is always nice 
to enlighten those younger professors who have never heard of Ada and 
those older ones who thought that Ada disappeared decades ago.  A 
picture of the booth at a prior SIGCSE meeting is available at 
http://www.sigada.org/awareness/Booth-at-SIGCSE-2009.jpg

This year Dick Hull (of Lenoir-Rhyne University) and I were scheduled to 
man the booth.  Unfortunately, Dick will be having some surgery next 
week and is unable to attend the conference.  If you are planning to 
attend SIGCSE this year, I would love to have your help at the booth 
before, during, and/or after the show.

I am planning to set up the booth late Wednesday afternoon February 29.  
I have to leave early morning on Saturday, March 3.  Dick was going to 
pack up the booth at the end of the show (Noon) on Saturday and ship it 
back to its home base at the University of Northern Iowa.  So I would 
particularly appreciate for someone to do the packing up.   The 
alternative is for me to pack things up Friday night and skip the last 
morning of the show.

Hoping to hear from a few academic Ada enthusiasts!

John


John McCormick
Computer Science Department
University of Northern Iowa
mccormick at cs.uni.edu