Canada Calling

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"Bob Walker"
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Canada Calling

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SD Community;

While this flash is primarily intended for Canadians (You know... were the ones who wear beaverskin hats and spend all of our time fishing and trapping) it might also serve as an incentive for other national groups to get themselves organized within the framework of the International SD Society...

Nan Lux, VP for Members and Chapters of the SD Society has properly challenged us to get our act together. An exciting possibility. In our national capital, Ottawa, we have successfully established a local SD Group, now approaching our second anniversary. (our fledgling, but promising, website can be accessed at: http://www.customerexpressions.com/custex/ncsdig.nsf.)

For many of us, Chapter Status has been a goal from the beginning... a sign that we have matured and a lightning rod to attract membership growth and public recognition. While ambitious, our continuing debate is over critical mass. How many of us does it really take to trigger the long sought explosion?

A larger, and potentially more exciting vision, is a National Chapter, modelled along the lines of recently successful initiatives in Italy and the UK. Why not try? If you are are either a practicing system dynamicist or an avid learner in our field let us know!!! In todays world virtual communities are becoming the norm... and we might well be able to defeat our great distances and 4 1/2 time zones by using the Internet.

For those of you who may be interested in such a "coming together" might I suggest that a Canadian annual "Gathering" would be an appropriate initial objective... physical for those who can and virtual for the rest of us. We have the technology to do it. What we need are the people.

Chimo! (an Eskimo approximation to Cheers!)
Bob

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