11/30/2005 SEDS-USA Exec Minutes
From SEDSWiki
Attendance
- Megha Sharma, Chair
- Todd Romberger, Vice Chair,
- Emily Hardigree-Ullman, Director of Publicity
- Joshua Nelson, Director of Special Projects
- Jennifer Kissinger, Director of External Affairs
- Lindsay Newton, Director of Educational Outreach
- Ryan McLinko, webmaster
- Stephanie Jones, Secretary (limited involvement)
I. Update on NOVA Newsletter
- Emily has it ready, Ryan will put it on the website by midnight
- Ryan is ready to upload the newsletter
II. Online
- The SEDS website
- For most organization’s website, there is a default page for the public and another page that insiders would use as their home page
- seds.org should be a place which says who we are and how to join
- suggestion that seds.info could be used as the public page and just updated
- suggestion that the toolbar and subheadings be changed to be more convenient, perhaps a site map would be of use
- UK seds has a really nice home page that could use for ideas
- The WIKI
- hard to find stuff on wiki without a direct link
- stuff on the wiki can be protected
- get seds on the main wiki as a “for fun” thing
III. The SEDS Advisory Board
- Threads on the forum: http://forums.seds.org/showthread.php?t=600&page=2
- Requirements for being on the board
- At least one third the board should be SEDS alums
- the alumni number will fluctuate with time but have this minimum
- we need an alumni database
- Megha is preparing one
- we have a members database but its grossly incomplete
- We should have two or three people come up with a list of candidates
- Kirk and Josh Neubert offered to do this
- Kirk came up with one and posted it on the forum already
- At least one third the board should be SEDS alums
- The Role of the Board
- general advice but no binding decisions on policy, etc.
- selection of SEDS national project proposals
- exec board has veto power in everything
- four regular meetings a year with SEDS exec
- Structure of the Board
- ten people on the board
