Conference 7.286::digital

Making noise really helps.  Start a letter-writing campaign.  Your personnel
rep might be able to point you to the right people to write to.

> I have also seen Corporate Challenge tournaments on ESPN with companies like 
> IBM, HP, etc. I have never seen Digital participate in any of these. Anyone 
> know why? This would give us some fairly inexpensive visibility and certainly 
> raise morale for our cable-ready employee population.

    	DEC participates in a lot of Corporate Challenge type things. I
    know I'm constantly reading in DEC publications about this Corporate
    Challenge race or that event and what people from DEC are involved.
    Perhaps the DEC running club has more information on that as most of
    the events I've read about have been running events. See
    NAC::RUNNING_CLUB for more information.

    			Alfred

    While visting in England a few years ago, I played in a Saturday afternoon
    soccer game.  The games were all for Digit's (as I recall) but
    apparently there were leagues and games against non-DECcies as well.
    
    Maybe someone from across the pond could update this info.
    
    Karl_who_is_sorry_he_missed_the_cricket_season

The closest I've seen us come (in sports I'm familiar with) to a Corporate 
Challenge competition is something we started doing last year in the Digital 
Volleyball League: The Annual Digital/Honeywell All-Star Volleyball 
Tournament. We had one last year and it was a lot of fun (Digital won 8-4). 
This year's tournament is next monday, April 24th, at the Hudson, Mass High 
School from 6-10 pm. Everyone is welcome to come and watch.

It would be nice to get some inter-company leagues going. I know there was an 
Ultimate Frisbee League a few years back (don't know if its still in 
existence) that had teams from a number of high-tech companies.

Are there any other inter-company sporting events that anyone is aware of?

Jim

    Here in Los Angeles we have a Coed-Computer-Softball League. 
    The teams consist of Digital, Data General, Concurrent (used to
    be Perkin Elmer), Wang and this year IBM.  This league was started
    approx 8-9 years ago by myself and a lady from DG.  We have lots of
    fun.  Once a week league games and then sometimes on a weekend.
    We follow softball rules (and of course we did change some-just to
    insure no one gets hurt and the game stays fun), and have playoffs and
    trophies and lots of Pizza.

    And the Western Area, at least that portion in the San Francisco Bay
    Area, San Francisco,Santa Clara Commercial and Santa Clara Government
    Districts, participate in the Corporate Ski Challenge at Lake Tahoe. 
    For more information you might contact either Ray or Cindy Coutermarsh. 
    Ray can be reached at JULIET::COUTERMAR_RA and Cindy can be reached at
    WROMTS::MRGATE::"SZO:: Cindy Coutermarsh"
    
    Larry
    
    PS:  Ray is the Sales Rep and Cindy is a Software Specialist

    Next week our office will participate in a city-wide Corporate
    Challenge event that will include companies like AT&T, IBM, many
    local Banks, etc.   We first entered it last year and found it to
    be great fun.  Events include co-ed softball, bowling, volleyball,
    tennis, basketball, & several others.  Each company fields as many
    teams in as many events as they can.  I don't believe there's any
    media coverage though.  Sure is a lot fun...  
    
    Cody - Charlotte N.C.
    

    re .6
    
    Digital is also a major sponsor of the corporate ski challenge, to the
    point that all the competitors vests say digital on the bottom. Quite
    fun to see all the Sun, Apollo, and HP types wearing our advertising.
    (last year, in fact the Sun/HP types taped over the digital logo)
    (I also think the sponsorship comes only from Western Area funds)
    
    Haven't heard how well we did this year.
    
    Dave

    Re: -.1
    
    With regard to the Digital logo, I understand that it cannot be
    placed on certain items without some groups permission.
    
    Is this true of items like T-Shirts and such used for sporting events.
    For example, if I decided to have some kind of volleyball competition
    with Digital people on one side, can I just go to the local T-Shirt
    shop and get T-Shirts with Digital logos?  Or, do I have to get
    the permission of someone in corporate?
    
    Doug

    Officially, you have to get permission.
    
    But you know what Grace Hopper says ...
    

    There's a standard on what you can an can't do with the logo...
    I think standards are on VTX now, or at least that's what they
    threatened with the last copy of one of the updates to certain things,
    so you can probably check it out with a little work.
    
    The logo is very important to us, and deserves to be
      - protected with care to maintain it's status as a trademark
      - used proudly and often.
    After all, it means 'us' and all our collective effort, skill and
    value.
    
    
    Don
    

        RE: .9 -- As suggested, you can do almost anything you like.
        It's unlikely that a local T-shirt shop would question your
        request to silk-screen the Digital logo onto shirts for your
        team.  HOWEVER, if anyone decided to complain, technically
        Digital has to follow up and give you a hard time.  It would
        be better to get permission first.  I know that the Employee
        Activities committee in Merrimack/Southern NH has obtained
        the permission, but I can't tell you who they got it from.
        Do you have an employee activities person in your group/area?
        
        Tom

    Re: -.1
    
    I will have to look into that Tom.  In this case "The right thing"
    appears to be to get the proper permission.
    
    Thanks all,
    
    Doug

Digital has both Men's and Women's soccer teams playing in corporate leagues
in the Greater Maynard area. However we were unable to get funds to go to the
corporate world cup games in LA. :-(

John