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Old 12-23-2011 at 11:42 PM   #16
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anything planned that is mcmaster related always takes +1year to come true

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Old 12-24-2011 at 06:02 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by RockerSocker View Post
I think it's being led and organized by members of the MSU/SRA, meaning don't expect it to EVER happen.
The Lipdub has nothing to do with the MSU or SRA. It was being organized by students at large who know/are friends with SRA members. Actually, now that I remember it had several members of the IRC executive on their Exec.

And secondly I was wondering if you could elaborate on your comment about MSU/SRA delaying stuff? If you are referring to the often misunderstood Google Delays, here's a basic Summary:

-I brought up the idea to the Chief Information Officer of UTS in January of 2010
-Myself and current MSU President MDL did some research, brought someone in from a company that did the integration of Gmail for schools and passed a policy saying the MSU supported a cloud based email system in Feb 2010
-In May of 2010 began conversations with university admin about it with the new policy
-Over the summer met with reps from Google/Microsoft
-Held a survey in Oct of 2010 where 3500 students voted (70% for Google)
-UTS then began contract negotiations between Google and McMaster
-Google did not dedicate their legal team to the issue until August
-McMaster and Google went back and forth over the contract
Contract was finalized last week finally.

The turnaround period for any MSU work on this was no more that 8 months, in between myself and MDL had to convince a skeptical SRA, Administration, Student Body and deal with quite a few bureaucratic issues before finding an opportune time to run that survey. Anything that happened after that was out of our hands.
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Old 02-20-2012 at 08:35 PM   #18
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Just bumping this because I'm sure people could use a good laugh.

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Old 02-20-2012 at 11:18 PM   #19
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Don't worry, one day Western will pump out a LipDub and the excitement will bubble up again. It will never actually get made, but I foresee people being excited about this all over again sooner or later.

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Old 03-03-2012 at 06:45 PM   #20
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The logistics of it seemed to have been underestimated.



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