1/11/2006 SEDS-USA Exec Transcript

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[21:11] Todd Romberger: alriht well we can get started
[21:12] Todd Romberger: we'll go ahead with updates from everyone, Liz Bozek you're up first if you have anything
[21:13] Liz Bozek: ok
[21:13] Liz Bozek: I sent out those surveys for the proposal and I already recieved 3 responses
[21:14] Liz Bozek: I really think it is important for the exec board to respond and be in the proposal too
[21:15] Todd Romberger: definetly, sorry hadn't gotten to it yet
[21:15] Liz Bozek: at the next CoC meeting (next Wednesday 8pm EST) I am going to ask the chapter reps to forawrd the survey to their individual mailing lists
[21:15] Liz Bozek: thats all i have...but I am excited
[21:15] Stephanie Jones: unc has our first meeting tomorrow, i was going to wait to get input there... you don't mind if we combination-brainstorm and send one document?
[21:16] Liz Bozek: sure, that would be great. if you can, just include all the names of the people who worked on it
[21:16] Stephanie Jones: gotcha
[21:17] Todd Romberger: sounds good
[21:17] Todd Romberger: any questions for Liz Bozek?
[21:18] Todd Romberger: ok, moving on....
[21:19] Todd Romberger: Emily Hardigree-Ullman you're up next
[21:19] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: i got nothin
[21:19] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: unless there are questions
[21:20] Stephanie Jones: none here.
[21:20] Todd Romberger: are you in need of any material for the next newsletter right now?
[21:21] *** Josh Nelson has joined the chat.
[21:21] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: no, i should probably wait for updates since the newsletter is going out in march
[21:21] Todd Romberger: ok sounds good
[21:21] Josh Nelson: (sorry bout that)
[21:21] Todd Romberger: no prob josh
[21:21] Todd Romberger: Emily Hardigree-Ullman, just let us know if there is anything you need form us
[21:21] Todd Romberger: *from
[21:21] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: ok
[21:22] Todd Romberger: i'll try to get you a write up on our rocket launch
[21:22] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: cool
[21:22] Todd Romberger: but the results are still under review, lol
[21:22] Todd Romberger: ok, any more questions for Emily Hardigree-Ullman?
[21:23] Stephanie Jones: sorry, sorry, next newsletter comes out in early march?
[21:23] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: march 1
[21:23] Stephanie Jones: great. thanks
[21:24] Todd Romberger: ok cool...if no more questions Josh you're up
[21:25] Josh Nelson: Well mainly on my front we are just waiting for the first big deadline, January 20th, when a preliminary writeup / structural analysis is due
[21:25] Todd Romberger: have you gotten any yet?
[21:26] Josh Nelson: None yet, though this isnt unexpected, as just about every chapter I have talked to said they will be submitting last minute
[21:26] Todd Romberger: yeah
[21:26] Josh Nelson: Just a quickie, who here knows their chapter will submit something?
[21:27] Ryan McLinko: this is for the zero-g, right?
[21:27] Todd Romberger: UCF is doubtful, the team has basically disapeared
[21:27] Todd Romberger: im going to try to get them going, but it may be too late
[21:27] Stephanie Jones: well, i know for sure that mine will not, haha. we don't have the tech capabilities
[21:28] Stephanie Jones: and we're mostly liberal arts majors
[21:28] Stephanie Jones: haha
[21:28] Josh Nelson: There's always a place for those
[21:28] Josh Nelson: yes, it is zero G
[21:28] Ryan McLinko: MIT is submitting something (I'm almost entirely sure)
[21:28] Josh Nelson: yay, MIT to the rescue ;-)
[21:29] Josh Nelson: good
[21:29] Liz Bozek: not sure about illinois
[21:29] Josh Nelson: Allright, well thats about it for me, any questions? if not, back to Todd
[21:30] Josh Nelson: (PS: Anyone know when Megha is supposed to be back in teh states?)
[21:30] Todd Romberger: 15th i think
[21:31] Todd Romberger: so she should be here next meeting
[21:31] Todd Romberger: ok, any other questions for Josh?
[21:32] Todd Romberger: ok...Ryan go ahead e any updatesif you hav
[21:33] Todd Romberger: *go ahead if you have any updates
[21:33] Ryan McLinko: well, I was going to get approval from execboard to move new.seds.org to seds.org
[21:33] Ryan McLinko: but maybe I should wait until next week (when we will hopefullly have more people)
[21:33] Todd Romberger: yeah i think thats a good idea
[21:34] Stephanie Jones: do we even have enough people to legally vote on that
[21:34] Todd Romberger: and it would be good to have megha here for that too
[21:34] Josh Nelson: yeah sounds like a good idea just to wait an extra week
[21:34] Ryan McLinko: I don't know what the actual procedure is for that, but what I was planning on doing was:
[21:34] Stephanie Jones: thats true. she probably hasn't had a chance to look at the site too
[21:34] Ryan McLinko: getting approval from exexboard, then
[21:34] Ryan McLinko: getting approval from Chris, Kevin, and Kirk
[21:35] Ryan McLinko: so other than that, if people could look over the site and try to break it or come up with suggestions and let me know over the next week, then that's be great
[21:36] Ryan McLinko: I haven't really been getting suggestions although I know there are things that could probably use some help
[21:36] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: the links to publications aren't working :)
[21:37] Ryan McLinko: which ones?
[21:37] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: any of them
[21:37] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: well, nova i mean
[21:37] Ryan McLinko: oh I see
[21:38] Ryan McLinko: I should probably move all those folders over to the new directory
[21:38] Ryan McLinko: to make sure those links are still valid
[21:39] Josh Nelson: When I open up the page, I see a very large space between the opening welcome and the news columns
[21:39] Josh Nelson: is that supposed to be there?
[21:40] Ryan McLinko: you mean between "...educate the public in such a way to attain this goal" and the space news/events?
[21:40] Josh Nelson: yes
[21:40] Ryan McLinko: oh wow
[21:40] Ryan McLinko: I hadn't even though to check it in IE
[21:41] Ryan McLinko: I've been using firefox only to check stuff
[21:41] Josh Nelson: :-)
[21:41] Ryan McLinko: no, that's not supposed to be there
[21:41] Josh Nelson: Might also want to check it in Netscape
[21:41] Ryan McLinko: stupic Microsoft
[21:41] Josh Nelson: yeah
[21:41] Josh Nelson: agreed, but most of our audience will probally be using either IE or Netscape
[21:42] Ryan McLinko: yeah, I usually check in IE and firefox
[21:42] Todd Romberger: i have one suggestion...
[21:42] Ryan McLinko: but somehow it managed to slip my mind
[21:42] Josh Nelson: np
[21:43] Stephanie Jones: perhaps the "space info" page could be consolidated under "links"
[21:43] Stephanie Jones: and our partners logos are kinda small and squished together
[21:43] Todd Romberger: the banner at the top has a background of light blue/greyish, what if that was changed to clack and the links to white...that way the seds logo would look more part of the page, if that makes any sense
[21:44] Todd Romberger: *changed to black
[21:44] Ryan McLinko: that's a good idea, I'll play with that
[21:44] Ryan McLinko: about the space info and links
[21:45] Ryan McLinko: I wasn't quite sure about what exactly the purpose/relationship between those different links and us is
[21:45] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: the title on exec people says 2004-2005
[21:45] Ryan McLinko: and therefore wasn't too sure how to break it up
[21:45] Stephanie Jones: huh.
[21:46] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: 2004-2005 SEDS-USA Board of Directors
[21:46] Ryan McLinko: yeah, forgot to change that
[21:46] Stephanie Jones: some of the links on the space info page don't look like they're quite working properly
[21:46] Stephanie Jones: it could be my comp, though, its been acting funny all day
[21:47] Ryan McLinko: yeah, that's because they link to directories that I haven't moved to new.seds.org
[21:47] Ryan McLinko: so your comp is fine
[21:47] Stephanie Jones: well, in this matter at least, haha
[21:47] Ryan McLinko: but, some of the links are sponsored in some ways by us I believe whereas some are completely external links
[21:47] Liz Bozek: you could change the conference location to central florida for '06
[21:48] Ryan McLinko: maybe I'm just trying to overanalyze the links
[21:48] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: how do i subscribe to the publications listserve
[21:49] Ryan McLinko: I can put you on
[21:49] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: thanx
[21:49] Ryan McLinko: I just wanted a way of keeping only a few people capable of posting there
[21:49] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: i hope nobody has sent it stuff
[21:49] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: is that the same as the publications@seds.org email?
[21:49] Ryan McLinko: no
[21:50] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: o
[21:50] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: ok, well how do i get to that then
[21:50] Ryan McLinko: oh wait, we are talking about different things
[21:50] Ryan McLinko: what do you mean by the publications listserve
[21:51] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: i mean i dont know how to get email if people think they are sending something to that email address
[21:51] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: i guess thats not a listserve
[21:52] Ryan McLinko: I asked Kirk about that at the beginning
[21:52] Ryan McLinko: and I think he said that he automatically changed everyone over
[21:52] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: ok
[21:52] Ryan McLinko: I was specifically asking about webmaster to see if that was switched, but I'll ask again to make sure
[21:53] Ryan McLinko: this is terribly dissapointing...IE looks at the css quite differently
[21:53] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: does that email get forwarded to mine or do i have to access it somewhere
[21:53] Ryan McLinko: I think it gets forwarded to you
[21:53] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: cool
[21:53] Ryan McLinko: if not, I'm sure there is a way to set that up
[21:54] Ryan McLinko: but I'll let you know if any of what I just said turns out to be false
[21:54] Emily Hardigree-Ullman: it works, i sent a test email
[21:55] Todd Romberger: ok cool
[21:55] Ryan McLinko: so should I just put all the links on one page
[21:55] Ryan McLinko: the space info and links combined I mean
[21:55] Todd Romberger: yeah, you could have a seperate section on that page called aprtners or something
[21:56] Stephanie Jones: i think that would work best
[21:56] Ryan McLinko: ok cool, sorry we kept skipping away from that
[21:57] Todd Romberger: ok, so ryan you got some good suggestions for the page?
[21:58] Ryan McLinko: yes
[21:58] Ryan McLinko: and feel free to do this anytime
[21:58] Ryan McLinko: just pop me an e-mail if anything else comes up
[21:58] Todd Romberger: sounds good
[22:00] Todd Romberger: ok, so stephanie if you have anything you want to add go ahead
[22:01] Stephanie Jones: no, nothing right now. i just keep my nose in various committees and subcommittees at the moment
[22:01] Stephanie Jones: and whoever talked to chris about the protected pages, thanks
[22:02] Todd Romberger: alrighty
[22:03] Todd Romberger: a quick update from me...
[22:03] Todd Romberger: i added the AAS conference to the list of events, sent out another email, and posted on seds.org
[22:05] Todd Romberger: still havent had many real responses, other than people from my chapter and michael laine from liftport
[22:05] Todd Romberger: so thats it from me
[22:06] Todd Romberger: anybody have any old or new stuff they want to discuss?
[22:07] Todd Romberger: ok i'll take that as a no
[22:08] Todd Romberger: so meeting is oficially over