Hellooo…. Ncs

We hope that you haven't forgot your little mission we gave you and that you are just in the midle of filling excel tables. Also we supose that your internet has a good signal and your computer is able to operate with excel file. So, we are here just to remind you that deadline really was on 1st of April (not a joke)))) and we are waiting and waiting and... so far we have received archive list from your NC friends but not from you. Yes you, youuuu, we're talking about you, yes yes yes. Don't look around, it's really you. So, go to Start menu, than Programs and finally Microsoft Excel, open file we gave you and do it soon as possible. Please... thank you )))))) Serious, it would be very very good to have archive workshop in Greece, and finally all materials at one place, updated and ready for use... Don't you think? .... we're waitiiiiing... kiss to those who already sent...

Ana & Iskra, Easa Archive

Guys,

the easa007:quota_list is based on the model proposed by the easa_guide, which was also used by previous organizers [ch005, hu006]. in order to provide all of us with an efficient, productive, wonderful, rich easa_expierence we propose an easa of 300 people.

community: [number of schools+students in each country] the community factor is modified according to the incm006, moscow. every nc is responsible for the given data. even the absent ncs have been asked to provide us with that information.

activity: following exactly the easa_guide.

today we received an e-mail from ivan[cr], who proposed interesting changes in calculating quota. it is our desicion to follow the guidelines of incm006. further changes or ideas can be discussed within the hub or during incm007.

our proposals:

1. countries not present in Budapest get community factor=0, even if their ncs have appeared [sorry portugal, sandor u can confirm if our data is valid on the new quota_list:available in a while].
2. extra places[coming soon...no worries!] will be distributed. priority to past/future_organizers, tutors and archivers.

*you can find detailed quota_list on www.easa007.gr

cheers

dear organizers and easa community! as we can all see the quota has really become an issue :) we feel that there are some things very wrong, and hopefully there's still time to make them work. first of all, we don't think that there was a consensus reached, and not even a disscussion held, about the quota being in relation to the number of inhabitants or to the number of schools and students per country, we believe that the number of schools REALLY participating in easa should be relevant. cause it is not really logical to let, for example, a country with 147 millions and 47 schools to have the biggest quota when only 2 schools are participating in easa. just as its not logical to let former easa and incm organizers to have a lot more places than the future easa organizer, while the number of schools participating in easa is the same or even bigger (ireland 2 schools, russia 2, hungary 1). so we think that the model is wrong, community isn't equal to the numbers provided on posters on incm (which were pretty superficial and inaccurate). the fact that a country is big and has many schools doesn't say much about easa community in the certain country, there are many big countries that have only one school attending to easa (germany, france, spain...) and there are some small countries that have 2 or more. so, change something. community also has to do with the tradition of attendence, so it can not happen that for example the netherlands has the same quota as new countries liechtenstein or montenegro (whose starting quota should be not more than 4). we suggest to redistribute places, according to the excell files we had before and to take into consideration only the number of shools from each country that will attend easa. if not, then at least reconsider our quota and especially irish quota. just imagine how it is to motivate new and young people to organize easa or incm event without beeing able to attend (just remember that your last years quota without competition winners was 17, so its our and irish quota together). for the end we suggest, if we don't solve this now, to have it as an important topic at incm croatia. further more, this travelling exhibition event is new and we should add new activity points for holding the exhibition, because it's really a lot of work and it promotes easa really well, 2 activity points should do for holding the exhibition (slovenia 3;). well, this is it, sorry for a long post, but it was really necessary, love from ana and ivan