[PROGSOC-ANNOUNCE] ProgSoc is moving and needs YOUR help.

Roland Turner (raz@nospam.arrakis.com.au)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:56:23 +1100


P R O G S O C M O V I N G !
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Done by: 1st December, 1997

Point of message: Need helpers!!!

Contact: raz@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au

The long-touted relocation of ProgSoc is about to happen, and we need
your help!

We urgently need people to help move furniture and heavy equipment for a
few hours this week and a few hours next week.

I know that this is rather short notice and particularly inconvenient
timing, but SoCS only just told us about our deadline (December 1).

For those who are interested, a more detailed explanation of what's
going on and what's planned appears below.

If you can spare a 3-4 hour timeslot ANY time this week or next, please
email me (mailto:raz@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au) ASAP and tell me when. Once I
know when people are available, I'll post an announcement about when
we'll do it.

Thanks.

Roland Turner
President
Programmers' Society
University of Technology, Sydney

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So, why the sudden urgency?

Unfortunately, SoCS has just told us that they definitely need the room rather soon. In fact, demolition work (removal of walls) is scheduled to begin in a fortnight.

So, over the next two weeks we need to start and finish our relocation into our new room on the ground floor.

This is of course far too simple a problem for ProgSoc to tackle and remain awake, so there are several additional twists to help make life interesting:

- The next two weeks is exam time for most people. Not only does this mean that most ProgSoc members are likely to be too busy too spend lots of time on the relocation, we also have to shift some rather heavy equipment and furniture in as close to total silence as we can manage!

- We are moving into less than half our current space. This means that we need to get rid of a lot of junk. The good news is that we won't be storing lots of SoCS's furniture any more.

- The room that we are moving into is currently full of furniture and, whilst it will be emptied before we occupy it, it may not be ready until a day or two before the demolition work begins, so we need to be able to move at almost no notice and in almost no time. This means that we need to have discarded all of our junk PRIOR to the relocation date.

To achieve all of this, the plan is as follows:

- A group of ProgSoc members gets together this week to take all of the SoCS furniture that we currently store in 4/438 and put it somewhere else. I am currently arranging somewhere to put it.

- A couple of admins poke through the pile of stuff that remains in the room and work out what we'll keep and what we'll dump.

- A group of ProgSoc members gets together next week to neatly stack all of the stuff that we want to get rid of for assessment and subsequent removal by an organisation that specialises in asset disposal.

- A group of ProgSoc members get together at some as yet unknown date to shift the gear that we are keeping from 4/438 into the new room on the ground floor.

If all of this goes together in the above order and we are able to complete the last step with very little notice in about 3-4 hours, the total outage experienced by ProgSoc's network should be no more than 3-4 hours.

If we do not get this together ahead of time, several undesirable outcomes are possible, including for example an outage of several days or weeks.

- Raz