From: gibbsm@ll.mit.edu (MargAret D Gibbs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: AMC: TAN: photo album/yearbook
Summary: we're about to start on another one
Keywords: yearbook album
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:09:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: ll.1993Jan26.140917.1047
Followup-To: poster
Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA


As many of you may remember, last year an AMC r.a.t.s.-readers
photo album was made and distributed to the participants. The 
original plan was to make the album a yearly endeavor, and judging 
from the interest expressed recently, it appears to be a good plan.  
So, I once again volunteer for the job of organizing/editing another 
color *or* black-and-white "album".

I would like to know how many people would be willing to participate 
in which option.  I am _not_ volunteering to do both options, but 
am willing to organize the *one* in which more people are interested.  
I'll collect votes for three weeks, and then work can begin on whatever 
process y'all decide upon.  OK?


     Idea                  approx. cost           
                           per person       
 
 1)  AMC color yearbook       $20.00
 2)  AMC B&W yearbook          $8.00
 
 Details
 
 1)  AMC color yearbook (same as last year)
	
     Everyone sends in one or two pictures (**non-returnable** - we 
     really mean it this year), plus a check.  Also, everyone emails a 
     short "blurb" about themselves. The editor gets color photocopies 
     made of the pictures, prints up the blurbs on a Mac, pastes the 
     pictures to the blurb pages, puts them in a binder, and sends the 
     "yearbook" to the participants.   Everyone gets an 8-1/2 x 11 page.    
 
 ADVANTAGE -  Color on every page! 
 DISADVANTAGE - cost
    In either of the options, the final cost will be determined when
    I find out how many people are interested in participating.  If not
    many people participate, the amount of copying per book is decreased,
    and thus the price may go down.  OTOH, if there are over 100 participants,
    the book will be double the size of last year's, and the cost would go up.
 
 
 2)  AMC black and white yearbook

     Same as option (1), except pictures will be photocopied in B&W
     as part of the blurb page (not pasted down as in the color version).

 ADVANTAGE - wouldn't cost as much (color copying is mucho expensive!)
 DISADVANTAGE - no color (obviously); People would have to be careful 
 about sending high-contrast photos, since they may not photocopy 
 well otherwise.

 OTHER COMMENTS ON OPTIONS 

 *  If there's enough money left over to make an extra 'yearbook' 
    we could send one to the folks at AMC. (I expect we'll do this -
    we did last year, and we didn't have any money left over.  In
    fact, we were slightly in the red.)
 
  * ONLY people that contributed to any of the above would get to
    participate.  However, I might be talked into selling the yearbook
    to someone that did not include his or her picture.   (yeah, right...
    I actually sold the B&W copies to about 50 people last year - I
    must be a sucker. :-))

  * I'd really like to hear from people who have seen both the color
    *and* B&W copies from last year - which would you prefer, and why?

 
 With all this in mind, please fill out the following ballot.
 
1) The option I would MOST LIKE to see is (Color or B&W): 

2) If option 1 (Color) is chosen, I would participate (Y or N):

3) If option 2 (B&W) is chosen, I would participate (Y or N):

-- 
Margaret D. Gibbs              "Practice random kindness and 
Assistant Staff	                 senseless acts of beauty"
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
gibbsm@ll.mit.edu
Organization: Junior, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA