Hello all,

	I have some of my thoughts listed here about the organization for this robot club. Some items which I feel will avoid the pitfalls that might have been experienced by the last robot club here in Pittsburgh. The lack of organization even makes the biggest company collapse. I like to promote a proactive organization where I can find people who can take responsibility for various tasks. Having worked in R&D before, I think it's important to have people with enough dedication assigned to specific roles to delegate the tasks needed to be accomplished. Like with any large club , there will a variety of opinions that people like to voice. The important issue is to have the proper leadership within the club to promote the ideas for the benefit of the club. This will be the highlighted issue for the first meeting.    
	There would so-called Project Leaders which will take responsibility for their accomplishing their tasks. I will be looking for people who seriously want to take on this assignment. These Projects Leaders will help promote the activities for robot club and use feedback from the club members to make their decisions. They will also need a small team to assist them in completing the tasks for specific activities which will be planned in the future. Such activities range from club organization, meetings, workshops, guest appearances, competitions, etc. Competitions would be a fairly large task where several project leaders would be needed for each contest within the competition. I wouldn't expect one person to handle the organization of the entire competition.    
	In the beginning, the competitions will be small - perhaps only one contest. But as we grow I like to find more people willing to take on the responsibility as Project leader to organize the necessary details for additional contests. This way, there will be enough incentive for people which have to travel a long distance to attend and also even compete. I will make an organizational chart to allow members see where they responsibilities are and others can see also. This should let us make smart and quick decisions and keep them clear and concise (hopefully not laborious or monotonous) for the club.

Thanks
Dan