2007 March 20 SEDS-USA Exec Transcript
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| SEDS-USA Executive Board Meeting, March 20, 2007 |
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Time: 8:00pm EST |
(21:00:22) rmmlg08 entered the room. (21:00:57) BZWingZero entered the room. (21:01:04) Brian Zollman: Good evening (21:01:20) RolandBolser entered the room. (21:01:42) DarrellDCain entered the room. (21:02:05) Me: hwllo guys (21:02:10) Me: where is everyone (21:02:20) James Welch: dunno (21:02:30) James Welch: probably on spring break (21:02:33) James Welch: slackers (21:02:42) Me: weak (21:03:01) Me: presumably everyone's watching spacex? (21:03:26) Nyeerrmm entered the room. (21:04:10) dandersonn43 entered the room. (21:04:38) Darrell2: spaceship! (21:07:00) Me: we'll start the meeting in about 5 min after falcon has hopefully launched (21:07:35) Darrell2: 3 minutes! (21:07:52) Brian Zollman: can anyone send the link to the video? (21:08:07) Me: spacex.com/webcast.php (21:08:13) Brian Zollman: thanks (21:10:41) James Welch: ANYONE ELSES REALLY WAVY (21:10:56) Darrell2: everyone is (21:16:25) Brian Zollman: anyone else just loose video? (21:16:30) James Welch: yeah (21:16:37) Me: yeah (21:17:07) Brian Young: yeah, but it didnt go to static like last time, so it probably didnt blow up (21:17:12) Me: yeah (21:17:21) Me: well, the last work I heard was nominal (21:18:10) Me: well, let's go ahead and get started (21:18:25) Brian Zollman: ok (21:18:31) Me: did anyone have agenda items (I had a couple) (21:18:36) Brian Young: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f2/status.html (21:18:53) Brian Young: they lost all telemetry (21:20:55) Me: well that's not good (21:21:06) Me: anyway, other agenda items? (21:21:48) Me: ok, so we'll start of with my 2 (21:22:07) Me: first of all, we have someone here who's interested in starting a harvard chapter (21:22:24) Me: so we'll be working in concert here with exec board (21:22:37) Me: Darrell is having a meeting with the person intersted in starting the chapter tomorrow (21:23:16) James Welch: good (21:24:37) Me: so, just wanted to make sure mainly that james and darrell were connected (21:24:42) Me: and everyon had an idea of what was going on (21:24:47) Me: questions, comments? (21:25:10) Brian Young: sounds like good progress to me (21:25:30) Brian Zollman: A new chapter is always good news (21:25:59) Me: 2nd item: I've been contacted by someone from Space Frontier Foundation asking for speakers we might liek at NewSpace 2007 (21:26:05) Me: this July in DC (21:26:18) Me: I sent this out to sedsexec about a week ago (21:26:27) Me: and was looking for suggestions from you guys (21:26:56) James Welch: about what in specifisc? I didn't see that one (21:27:22) Me: she is planning a panel entitled: "Vision of Youth" (21:27:37) Me: I will forward it to sedsexec again (21:27:46) James Welch: wait, I found it (21:27:49) James Welch: spam canned (21:27:51) Me: too late (21:28:46) James Welch: as long as that's a weekend (21:28:56) James Welch: I can probably make it down there (21:28:58) Brian Young: its wednesday-saturday (21:29:03) Brian Young: registration is $95 (21:29:07) James Welch: hmm (21:29:30) Me: well if you're being put on the board (21:29:33) Me: *panel (21:29:40) Me: I'm sure you can get out of registration (21:30:03) James Welch: yeah, I was just hmming at the wednesday saturday (21:30:10) James Welch: I'll have to work over time but it works (21:30:28) Brian Young: i'll be in the area, but I don't think I can do it... but if anyone needs a place to stay I can do that (21:30:34) Me: ok (21:31:19) Me: we can probably also work out when to have it so that it's easier for people (during the wed-sat, that is) (21:31:34) Me: or if you guys know of any people in the DC area (21:31:39) Me: who would be good to have on the panel (21:31:52) James Welch: well, thjere's the usual bunch (21:34:18) Brian Young: only people I know out there aren't in the space industry... except I guess Loretta is still out there (21:35:43) Me: well, if you guys think of anyone later tonight, let me know (21:35:57) Me: I'm going to respond to here sometime tomorrow (21:36:24) Me: so, that said, let's quickly go through updates (21:36:28) Me: brian? (21:36:38) Me: (zollman) (21:36:53) Brian Zollman: Searching for articles for the Nova. Probalby will have something on the SpaceX launch. (21:36:59) Brian Zollman: Its due out on the first (21:37:28) Brian Zollman: and as always, suggestions are always welcome (21:37:40) Me: but everything moveing smoothly? (21:37:45) Brian Zollman: Yes. (21:38:13) Me: questions, comments for brian? (21:38:50) Me: ok, dan: (21:38:52) James Welch: how late are you taking submissions? not suggesting anyhtin (21:38:58) James Welch: g, just curisou (21:40:01) Brian Zollman: Well, the final article list is usually compiled around the 27th of the month, but can change up to a few hours before the first. Submissions are welcome any time, the likelyhood of it missing the issue is low (21:41:33) James Welch: okay (21:42:38) Me: ok, moving on, brian young: (21:45:16) Brian Young: oh, sorry, im at work and got distracted (21:45:21) Brian Young: nothing in particular to report (21:45:49) Me: k, james: (21:46:01) James Welch: This last week was my spring (21:46:02) James Welch: but (21:46:09) James Welch: I was stuck in Tucson, Arizona (21:46:19) James Welch: so I went to a ton of online groups (21:46:28) James Welch: and just started to put things on the message board (21:46:31) James Welch: first talking (21:46:41) James Welch: so I'm not just an advertiser (21:46:55) James Welch: then I went and just spammed a couple groups (21:47:11) James Welch: I've gotten a few interested responses from high schools students (21:47:16) Me: cool (21:47:46) James Welch: but after I respond, they say that they hadn't thought it through and don't want to spend time in their senior year doing that (21:47:47) James Welch: so (21:48:13) James Welch: but I got a lot of professors and have some encourageing rsponses from them (21:48:27) James Welch: and that's the end of my update (21:48:54) Me: k (21:49:41) Me: well, as for me: I'm going to be sending out another round of conferences emails shortly and will be making som website updates during my spring break next week (21:50:20) Me: anything else anyone wants to discuss, questions, whatever? (21:50:31) Brian Zollman: Wha'd I miss last week? (21:51:02) Brian Zollman: And is the govt still being lazy or are we nonprofit yet? (21:51:19) Me: here's the transcript: http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/2007_March_13_SEDS-USA_Exec_Transcript (21:52:08) Me: think john's still waiting on non-profit status (21:52:29) Darrell2: oh! (21:52:47) Darrell2: if we're non-profit can we write off some stuff I bought!? (21:53:09) Darrell2: cause I got this pony that our membership really wanted...but it's a pain to pay all the taxes related to it (21:53:21) Darrell2: livestock tax, feed tax, not to mention the certification (21:53:26) Darrell2: it's a pain! (21:53:52) Darrell2: (it was Ryan's idea to get the pony) (21:53:57) Me: jeez, the things our president does behind our backs ;) (21:54:09) Darrell2: hey....there was a specific vote on it (21:54:10) Brian Zollman: lol (21:55:16) Me: well, if no one has anything else interesting/relevant, then we're done for today (21:56:08) Darrell2: what about China? (21:57:22) Darrell2: their space-related student led club beats us in membership by 1000-1 (21:57:45) James Welch: but that's because they out number us 1000 to 1 (21:57:52) Darrell2: they also have a trillion dollar surplus (21:58:20) Me: 中国很好 (21:58:44) James Welch: black flag! (21:58:48) Darrell2: darn...I see Ryan has been preparing (21:59:15) Me: 你对 (21:59:43) Me: http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/chinese-dictionary.php (21:59:56) Me: (in case you guys want to translate) (22:00:48) James Welch: wow, that's a tiny bit racist (22:01:13) Darrell2: how? (22:01:21) Darrell2: it's good sense to learn Chinese (22:01:31) Darrell2: that way you can get all the jobs they'll be offering (22:01:36) Darrell2: and leave the US in the dust (22:01:45) James Welch: sarcasm doesn't traslate well over AIM (22:01:47) Me: 为什么 (22:01:47) Brian Young: or at least get jobs listening to them (22:01:47) Darrell2: since they have a competitive capitalist society over there (22:02:36) Darrell2: wait...they don't! (22:02:43) Darrell2: you ain't getting any money Ryan (22:04:47) Nyeerrmm left the room. (22:04:58) Darrell2: because...their communists (22:05:01) Darrell2: they're (22:05:11) Darrell2: they don't pay on a competitive scale...they just pay you (22:06:21) RolandBolser left the room. (22:07:31) BZWingZero left the room. (22:13:01) dandersonn43 left the room.
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