12/14/2005 SEDS-USA Exec Transcript

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[todd romberger] 8:59 pm: hey ryan
[SEDS]: srjones has entered at 9:01 pm
[srjones] 9:01 pm: hello all
[todd romberger] 9:01 pm: hey stephanie
[mclinkor] 9:02 pm: hello
[mclinkor] 9:02 pm: is it just me or is this seeming slow today
[srjones] 9:03 pm: slower than usual?
[todd romberger] 9:03 pm: yeah, a little slow
[SEDS]: ElizabethBozek has entered at 9:03 pm
[todd romberger] 9:03 pm: Hey Liz
[ElizabethBozek] 9:04 pm: hi
[todd romberger] 9:04 pm: we'll gust give the rest a few min to show up
[srjones] 9:05 pm: is this finals week for a lot of people?
[srjones] 9:05 pm: it is at unc
[todd romberger] 9:06 pm: i had them alst week
[srjones] 9:06 pm: nice
[SEDS]: mcruce2 has entered at 9:06 pm
[todd romberger] 9:07 pm: hey matt
[ElizabethBozek] 9:07 pm: finals at illinois too
[mcruce] 9:07 pm: hello all...sorry i'm late
[mcruce] 9:07 pm: yep
[mcruce] 9:07 pm: lol
[mclinkor] 9:07 pm: next week here
[mcruce] 9:09 pm: prolonging the agony then i suppose
[mcruce] 9:09 pm: has the meeting started yet?
[todd romberger] 9:09 pm: alright al we're missing is emily and Josh, I'll give them 2 more min
[SEDS]: John has entered at 9:09 pm
[todd romberger] 9:10 pm: hey john thanks for coming
[todd romberger] 9:10 pm: didnt think you were going to make it
[John] 9:10 pm: Almost forgot
[SEDS]: ElizabethBozek has left at 9:10 pm
[SEDS]: ElizabethBozek has entered at 9:10 pm
[todd romberger] 9:11 pm: alriht well we should start, the rest can catch up
[todd romberger] 9:11 pm: as you know megha is out of the country until Jan 15th, and may or may not be out of internet contact
[todd romberger] 9:11 pm: so ill be doing the meetings until then
[todd romberger] 9:12 pm: also, right now we're still planning on meeting every Wed through break
[todd romberger] 9:13 pm: however i wont be able to make it on Dec 28th, so I'll just need someone to moderate that one for me
[todd romberger] 9:13 pm: i dont know how the cain of command goes for that, so I'll just take any volunteers that know they'll be there
[todd romberger] 9:14 pm: Any questions on any of that?
[mcruce] 9:14 pm: i nominate liz since she moderates CoC meetings
[ElizabethBozek] 9:15 pm: i can do it
[todd romberger] 9:15 pm: ok awesome
[todd romberger] 9:15 pm: thanks Liz
[ElizabethBozek] 9:15 pm: no prob
[todd romberger] 9:15 pm: alright well we'll move on to dept. updates, Liz do you want to go first?
[ElizabethBozek] 9:16 pm: ok
[ElizabethBozek] 9:16 pm: i don't really have much except I am planning on meeting with mark schaffer to see how we can get on the agenda for march storm
[SEDS]: mcruce2 has left at 9:17 pm
[SEDS]: mcruce2 has entered at 9:17 pm
[todd romberger] 9:17 pm: ok cool, did you find out the dates?
[ElizabethBozek] 9:18 pm: no they aren't on the web yet
[todd romberger] 9:18 pm: ok no prob
[ElizabethBozek] 9:18 pm: but i mark will tell me when he gets back to me
[todd romberger] 9:19 pm: sounds good
[todd romberger] 9:19 pm: anything else Liz? any questions for Liz?
[ElizabethBozek] 9:19 pm: thats about it
[todd romberger] 9:20 pm: ok cool if there are no questions, we'll move on to John
[John] 9:20 pm: OK
[John] 9:21 pm: Nothing new here, I'll start back up once finals are over...
[John] 9:22 pm: Still waiting on Purdue to send another check for dues and to cover the $5 penalty we got nailed for
[John] 9:22 pm: That's all I got
[todd romberger] 9:22 pm: alright, any questions?
[todd romberger] 9:23 pm: Alright Ryan you're up next if you have any updates
[mclinkor] 9:24 pm: I have send out e-mails about some various things
[mclinkor] 9:24 pm: regarding various things on the site
[SEDS]: mcruce2 has left at 9:24 pm
[mclinkor] 9:24 pm: and have gotten very few replies
[mclinkor] 9:25 pm: I will probably send out another round, but if you're working on something that I ask about, then please let me know about that so I know you got my e-mial
[todd romberger] 9:25 pm: yeah, Im guilty of not replying too, so i was thinking maybe we could throw some ideas around here while we're present
[mclinkor] 9:26 pm: ok
[mclinkor] 9:26 pm: so the biggest thing was what links were most important to have on the main page and on the main members page
[mclinkor] 9:27 pm: the page is still up on new.seds.org, but hasn't been updated in the past week
[todd romberger] 9:27 pm: the main members page would be the current seds.org?
[mclinkor] 9:27 pm: for the most part
[ElizabethBozek] 9:28 pm: where will the past meeting minutes be?
[mclinkor] 9:30 pm: I can put a link to it on the members page if you think it is improtant enough for that
[mclinkor] 9:30 pm: otherwise it can be linked to on a subpage
[todd romberger] 9:31 pm: i think the links ou have on www.new.seds.org now are great, maybe add one for wiki
[todd romberger] 9:31 pm: or should that stay on the members page?
[mclinkor] 9:31 pm: I would guess that outside people don't care about the wiki
[todd romberger] 9:32 pm: yea maybe
[todd romberger] 9:33 pm: how about a link to a page that has the updates that the members page has
[mclinkor] 9:34 pm: what do you mean
[SEDS]: mcruce2 has entered at 9:34 pm
[todd romberger] 9:34 pm: nevermind, you already have it w/ a link to the members page
[todd romberger] 9:35 pm: well i cant thnk of much else for the main page, i think it looks good
[mclinkor] 9:35 pm: how about aesthetics
[todd romberger] 9:35 pm: my only complaint is that the banner pics are a little grainy
[mclinkor] 9:36 pm: yeah, I blew them up a little from the other page
[mclinkor] 9:36 pm: so I will need to do something about that
[todd romberger] 9:36 pm: yeah but overall it looks good to me
[todd romberger] 9:36 pm: anyone else have ideas, suggestions?
[todd romberger] 9:37 pm: well i have another aesthetic one...
[todd romberger] 9:38 pm: is it possible to make the links on the left look cooler, like w/ some animation or something when you scroll over, rather than just text in a box
[mclinkor] 9:39 pm: yeah, suggestions of how to make them look cooler?
[mclinkor] 9:39 pm: they do need something though
[mcruce] 9:39 pm: use some embossed font or something like that...maybe a different background in the box
[todd romberger] 9:40 pm: http://scaled.com/ chck out the links on the left there, that may be too involved though, but it looks cool
[mcruce] 9:40 pm: ya those are awesome!
[mclinkor] 9:41 pm: yeah, I forgot about those
[mclinkor] 9:41 pm: last time I went to their site I spend a couple of minutes jsut scrolling over them
[mclinkor] 9:41 pm: I'll see what I can do about that
[todd romberger] 9:42 pm: awesome
[todd romberger] 9:42 pm: alright did you have anything else you wanted to discuss ryan?
[mclinkor] 9:42 pm: nope
[todd romberger] 9:43 pm: ok, matt you want to go?
[mcruce] 9:43 pm: yep
[mcruce] 9:43 pm: not a whole lot new...finals are killin me and i still plan to get tons done on break...
[mcruce] 9:44 pm: Dakota Space Society does want to join for sure so i think we got another one
[todd romberger] 9:45 pm: sweet
[mcruce] 9:45 pm: John, be looking for a check in the mail, but i doubt it gets here by friday
[mcruce] 9:45 pm: Liz be looking for an e-mail with their membership list
[ElizabethBozek] 9:45 pm: cool
[John] 9:45 pm: OK, I'll still be here next week
[mcruce] 9:46 pm: other than that just looking to accomplish my goals over break
[todd romberger] 9:46 pm: ok cool, thanks matt
[todd romberger] 9:46 pm: moving on...stephanie did you have anything for us?
[SEDS]: srjones has left at 9:47 pm
[todd romberger] 9:47 pm: lol
[mcruce] 9:47 pm: guess not...lol
[todd romberger] 9:47 pm: server issues i hope
[mcruce] 9:47 pm: i got kicked out twice tonight already so probably
[todd romberger] 9:47 pm: yeah
[todd romberger] 9:48 pm: well i'll just do a quick blurb until she gets back...
[todd romberger] 9:48 pm: i dont have much new myself, but will be sending stuff out over break about conferences/events to attend
[SEDS]: srjones has entered at 9:49 pm
[todd romberger] 9:49 pm: but i'd like to include the march storm stuff in there too, so Liz keep me updated
[todd romberger] 9:50 pm: did you have anything you wanted to mention stephanie?
[srjones] 9:50 pm: i'm with matt on the finals-eating-my-brain thing
[srjones] 9:50 pm: nothing new
[todd romberger] 9:51 pm: hehe yep i think thats where we all are
[todd romberger] 9:51 pm: alright then, just another quick note, we're going to be setting up a meeting for the new fundraising comittee probably sometime over break
[todd romberger] 9:52 pm: to meet w/ mark schaffer and talk about how to get this thing rolling
[SEDS]: mcruce has left at 9:52 pm
[todd romberger] 9:52 pm: Jennifer will be heading up that comittee, as you know
[todd romberger] 9:53 pm: Does anyone have anything else they want to add or talk about?
[SEDS]: mcruce has entered at 9:54 pm
[todd romberger] 9:54 pm: alright i'll take the silence as a no
[todd romberger] 9:55 pm: so looks like we're done, you guys can get back to frying your brains w/ finals
[todd romberger] 9:55 pm: good luck w/ them!
[John] 9:56 pm: Thanks, you too!
[ElizabethBozek] 9:56 pm: great, see you all next week