1/18/2006 SEDS-USA Exec Minutes

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Attendance

  • Megha Sharma, Chair
  • Todd Romberger, Vice Chair
  • Jennifer Kissinger, Director of External Affairs
  • Emily Hardigree-Ullman, Director of Publications
  • Lindsay Newton, Director of Educational Outreach
  • John Evans, Director of Finances
  • Matt Cruce, Director of Expansion
  • Ryan McLinko, webmaster
  • Stephanie Jones, secretary
  • Josh Nelson, Director of Special Projects

I. Update from Director of Finances

  • 501c-3 still in the beginning stages, Director is still trying to get in touch with tax guy
  • state of Massachussetts hasn’t processed our Annual Reports or cashed or check
  • Director needs to find out what supporting documents are necessary

II. Director of Special Projects reminds that deadlines for Zero-G proposals is next Friday

  • out of 22 chapters, Director has in contact with eight
  • three chapters are definitely proposing, everyone else we’ll see when we hit the deadine.

III. Director of External Affairs updates on Travel Fund

  • meeting set for next week to discuss contacts for funding and start to nail down a procedure for how to ask for money and what to do when they respond, etc.
  • suggestion to ask alumni first

IV. Director of Publications updates on the next newsletter

  • has asked Chris Lewicky to do the Alumni Spotlight
  • New Mexico spaceport first launch set for March 27th
  • will be asking for exec board updates soon
  • New Horizons launch tomorrow
  • outline will be much like the first: exec updates, alumni spotlight, student spotlight, space calendar

V. Director of Educational Outreach explains plans for a SEDS textbook

  • one more science based and one more history based
  • ideas to have workshops at the SEDS Academies to write them
  • suggestion to have a SEDS history one (apparently ISU did that and did a really awesome job of it

VI. Director of Expansion continues work on a contact list for all the major national universities

VII. Question: how does one get access to the listserv archives?

  • The Chair will look into it

VIII. Webmaster makes a SEDS space calendar separate from spacecalendar.org at http://new.seds.org/calendar/phpicalendar-2.1/index.php

IX. Webmaster asks exec members to look at new.seds.org and make suggestions. Suggestions are made.

X. Vice Chair updates on conferences and those attending

  • Caltech has about six interested in ISDC, AAS, Return to the Moon, and the Xcup
  • Other than that, responses are slow and few in coming
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