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Emailed announcements can be long and should be inclusive. Specifically, they should include date/time/location, caller and cuer, early rounds topic, upcoming dances (both Tech Squares affiliated & not), and (optional) fun stuff. Some weeks may have additional announcements. Alex has been trying to have a short table of contents (perhaps one to four words per item) at the top and similar headings before each item; it's not clear that's better than the historical "just a bunch of ---- separated items" approach, but it seems like it might be.
Sample email:
The general format of the emailed announcements goes like this:
Greetings
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everyone!
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Tech
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Squares
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will
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be
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meeting
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this
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Tuesday,
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- Upcoming badge order- Rounds...
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29 March in Sala. 7pm early rounds will have Phil teaching beginning waltz, followed by Ted calling squares and Phil cueing rounds at 8pm. Walkthroughs for the class will be in West Lounge.
Announcements this week:
- Club meeting (4/5)
- EC meeting (4/12)
- Class flourishes
- This date in history
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Club meeting (4/5)
Nominations are still open for our Executive Committee election in a week. You can see current nominees or nominate new people in this spreadsheet. Elections will take place during our club meeting on Tuesday, April 5 during the weekly dance. The agenda for the meeting is treasurer’s report and spring elections.
----EC meeting (4/12 @ 10:30PM)
The EC will meet in two weeks after squares for our annual standing policy review. We’ll be considering SP1 “Adopting and Amending Standing Policies” as well as other minor amendments. Alex will send details to tech-squares-discuss later this week, and if you have standing policy changes that you’d like us to consider, please let Alex (adehnert@mit.edu) or the officers (squares@mit.edu) know by next Wednesday (but the sooner the better).
At the same meeting, the EC will briefly discuss the class.
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The Spring class now knows the scoot back flourish (as well as right and left grand and weave the ring). They will learn more soon, but until then, please refrain from using flourishes they haven’t learned yet with them.
----On March 29, 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
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Rounds(Update from 2016: with the google doc approach, officers are encouraged to put in their own announcements, so this isn't as relevant, but if we go back to some other thing, it may be useful in the future, so I'm leaving it)
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Today in 1777, Congress adopts the 'Stars and Stripes' as the official Flag of the United States. On a more technical bent, today in 1822, Charles Babbage proposed his difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
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From Andy Latto concerning rounds:
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