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Call For Volunteers
Last call, attendee survey
Photographs
Administrivia
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Call For Volunteers:

During DLV, a number of you mentioned to the effect "if there's any way
I can help out, let me know ...", well, this is where we let you know
how you can help.

Planning and organization of DLV is done mostly on line via e-mail. It's
interactive and participatory. Volunteers form what we call the DLVORG
group.

The DLVORG group is not at all closed or exclusive. With very rare
exception, it's open to anybody who expresses interest in helping out
with DLV.

DLVORG people participate at the decision-making level, the organizing
and planning level, and at the nuts-and-bolts level.

The DLVORG group has one mission and one mission only, and that is to
plan the activities that make up what we call Diva Las Vegas.

All of our major activities were "adopted" by one or more of our
volunteers, who jumped through the necessary hoops to make them happen.

All that fun you had at DLV, on the limo tour, at golf, at the show, the
garden party, etc. was the result of our volunteers stepping forward and
volunteering to make these things happen.

Most of the real "work" involves planning activities and making them
happen. (And I say "work" in quotes, because it can actually be a lot of
fun!)

Joining the DLVORG group is not intended to be a status symbol. We're
all peers, both organizers and participants. There's no class structure
or pecking order. Hey, we're planning a vacation, not building an
empire!

If you're sincere about wanting to do your part to make a great thing
even better, to give back what DLV has given to you, and help to run an
event that has literally changed lives, please step forward!

I would also encourage those who are "newly out" to consider
volunteering. We need the perspecive of those who are new to public
exposure when planning DLV. Each year since 1997, DLV has given some
of our people their first public experience. We do value the input and
support of those who are new, as we do the input from those who have
been in public for years.

To join the DLVORG group, simply send a brief e-mail message to
dlvorg@geekbabe.com and state you wish to volunteer. (Or, just reply
to this mailing and state that you wish to volunteer.)

Please include a sentence or two stating how you are most interested in
helping out. Anything general or specific ("I wanna plan a sky-diving
party.", or "I'll help any way I can.") is perfectly fine. Anything
from one sentence to a book length manuscript will be ok. :)

If you already volunteered via the final screen of the survey, you are
already on the list, and you do not have to answer this calling unless
you want to make some of your ideas known early in the process.

The DLV 2005 organizational list will become active shortly, and those
who volunteered will receive a confirming e-mail and a welcome message.
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Last call, attendee survey:

Thanks to all who have taken the on-line participant survey. The
survey will remain on line until this coming Friday, and we're asking
all who attended DLV 2004 but have not filled it out to please do so.

This will take less than 5 minutes and will give us much valuable
information to help summarize this year's DLV and plan for DLV's in
the future.

The survey is on line at:

http://www.geekbabe.com/dlv/dlv2004/dlv2004survey.html

HINT: We would appreciate a few more SO's taking this. :)
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Photographs:

Photos continue to come in. We now have 13 staging directories as of
this time with over 1400 photos!

If you attended DLV, please look these over. Everybody has a reasonable
number of "vetoes" of any photos in which they appear. If you see any
of yourself which you don't like, please send in the staging area number
and the photo number.

Again, thanks to all who took these photos and sent them in so that
all can enjoy them! :)

The staging areas will remain on line for approximately 2 more weeks.
After this the DLV 2004 followup pages will be made.
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Administrivia:

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Diva Las Vegas 2004
May 2 - 8, 2004
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