2008 November 24 SEDS-USA Exec Transcript
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| SEDS USA Executive Board Meeting, November 24 2008 |
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Time: 8:30 PM EST |
Contents |
Action Items
- All SEDS Executive Board Members: Activate and change default password for SEDS executive board email account.
- http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/How_to_Use_eSupport
- Log on at: support.seds.org/staff
- For Default password Contact Ryan McLinko, or Joshua Nelson
- User name is (last name)(Fist Initial) I.e. silvaz
- All SEDS Executive Board Members: contact Joshua Nelson, before thanksgiving setting up individual meetings for orientation and update.
- Matt Cannella contact Josh Sosa about creating SEDS blog
Meeting Minutes
- Introduction of 2008-2009 SEDS executive board officers
- Introduction of @seds.org email addresses for SEDS executive board members
- Joshua Nelson advised regular contact with former board members and current board members
- New Requirement for all SEDS Executive Officers: Weekly progress reports outlining what you are working on, progress made in the last week, and points for discussion.
- if absent at the general meeting, progress reports should be emailed to the listserv
- Matt Cannella announced a quarterly newsletter sent to all SEDS chapters, as well as an online blog/newsfeed for chapters to be kept up to date with the happenings of SEDS national.
- Joshua Nelson requested that all executive board members schedule individual orientation meeting with him
- SEDS executive board email accounts activated
Progress Reports
- Grant Atkinson: Finishing projects Darell was working on near end of term. Working on establishing times for upcoming COC meetings.
- Rick Hanton: Started working with Keri H. on plans to get new chapters using presentations or video presentations available on the web.
- Keri Hancock: Contacted the AAPT (American association of Physics teachers) and NEA (national education association) to establish contacts for chapter expansion. Started working on a video presentation to entice high school students. Made contact with printing company who offered SEDS free printing for promotional material. Started up two promotional projects: creating “cool” looking physics equations that will appeal to high school students, and creating official SEDS Stationary. Started working on a newsletter to send out to the members of the Arizona chapter of the NEA
- Keri Bean:(will) Send a link to the top 100 universities, proposed appointing SEDS members from each chapter to help with educational outreach, proposed making a standardized outreach fair
- Zeke Silva: Contacted Rio Grande High School, West Mesa High School, and New Mexico Tech about starting SEDS chapters. Will start including a brief synopsis of everyones progress reports above the meeting minutes.
- Justin Graves: Waiting on contact with predecessor to start working on position.
- Matt Cannella: Creating a quarterly newsletter sent to all SEDS chapters, as well as an online blog/newsfeed for chapters to be kept up to date with the happenings of SEDS national. Thinking of allowing honorable SEDS alumni post to the blog so it will one day become a source for national space news. Updating all old SEDS promotional brochures and creating new material. Informed us of a graphics service provided by UBSEDS available to all SEDS chapters
- Basant Sagar: updated my LinkedIn profile with SEDS stuff and made contact with Will Pomerantz, the projects guy at X Prize.
- Ryan McLinko, Josh Sosa, and Joshua Nelson omitted progress reports par time constraints.
Transcript
(20 33 30) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Calling the meeting to order
(20 33 34) Me: gchat should
(20 33 58) Joshua Vincent Nelson: First off, welcome everyone to the first Executive Board meeting for the 2009 Executive Board.
(20 34 19) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Congratulations on winning your positions, and thank you for showing such an interest in making SEDS a success!
(20 34 59) Joshua Vincent Nelson: I'd like to go down the list and have everyone briefly introduce themselves... Name, Position, Chapter I'll start
(20 35 11) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Joshua V. Nelson, Chairman of the Board, University of Arizona SEDS
(20 35 53) Grant Atkinson: Grant Atkinson, Director of Chapter Affairs, Texas A&M SEDS
(20 35 56) Keri Bean: Keri Bean, Director of Educational Outreach, Texas A&M SEDS
(20 36 05) Justin Graves: Justin Graves, Director of Finance, MIT SEDS
(20 36 10) Me: Ryan McLinko, Vice Chair, MITSEDS
(20 36 16) Basant Sagar: Basant V Sagar, Director of National Projects, MIT SEDS
(20 36 18) Matt Cannella: Matt Cannella, Director of Publications, University at Buffalo, UBSEDS
(20 36 23) Rick Hanton (ISU): Rick Hanton, Director of Chapter Expansion, Iowa State Space Society (ISU SEDS)
(20 36 31) Joshua Sosa: Joshua Sosa, Webmaster, UASEDS
(20 36 33) zekesilva@gmail.com: Zeke Silva Secretary UofA SEDS
(20 37 33) Joshua Vincent Nelson: ok
(20 37 50) Joshua Vincent Nelson: and missing is Keri Hancock, High School Affairs, UofA SEDS
(20 38 10) Joshua Vincent Nelson: So first up on the agenda is seds.org email addresses and listservs
(20 38 30) Joshua Vincent Nelson: as members of the executive board you all get your own seds.org email addresses (ex chair@seds.org)
(20 38 41) Joshua Vincent Nelson: these addresses are how you should conduct all official SEDS business
(20 38 46) Keri Hancock entered the room.
(20 39 03) Joshua Vincent Nelson: it allows us to both look professional, and keep track of the status of our work
(20 39 14) Joshua Vincent Nelson: as well as letting Ryan and I keep track of who is keeping up with their emails etc...
(20 39 29) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Ryan, have peoples addresses been put into the ticket system yet?
(20 39 49) Me: not yet
(20 39 59) Me: I'll add that to my list for tonight
(20 40 12) Joshua Vincent Nelson: K, we'll work on that tonight. You'll all probably start getting emails from the ticket system later tonight.tommorow morning
(20 40 31) Joshua Vincent Nelson: we use a software called E-Support to run the seds.org email addresses.
(20 40 44) Joshua Vincent Nelson: you can find out how to use and manage your email addresses from: http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/How_to_Use_eSupport
(20 41 18) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Basically you will get emails to your personal email address containing 'tickets' that you can either respond to directly using the reply button, or you can log into the ticket system
(20 41 29) Joshua Vincent Nelson: please make sure to either reply directly, or log into the ticket system to answer your emails
(20 41 36) Matt Cannella: is this all online or external software?
(20 41 44) Joshua Vincent Nelson: all online
(20 41 55) Me: note that if you reply using your normal email, it will reply to the right people for you
(20 42 13) Rick Hanton (ISU): So it doesn't matter what address we reply with?
(20 42 18) Me: (ie you will reply to vice-chair@seds.org, but it will direct it to the right people)
(20 42 24) Matt Cannella: ok
(20 42 26) Me: correct
(20 42 27) Rick Hanton (ISU): slick
(20 42 28) Joshua Vincent Nelson: rick, no it doesnt.
(20 42 41) Joshua Vincent Nelson: example, I receive all my emails to jediarizona@yahoo.com
(20 42 43) Me: the ticket system has its moments
(20 42 51) Joshua Vincent Nelson: but when I reply it looks like I am using chair@seds.org
(20 43 00) Joshua Vincent Nelson: If you're getting bombarded with tickets
(20 43 02) Joshua Vincent Nelson: let us know
(20 43 04) Rick Hanton (ISU): Has it failed before?
(20 43 09) Joshua Vincent Nelson: sometimes the system has some... hiccups.
(20 43 11) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Yes...
(20 43 22) Rick Hanton (ISU): joy
(20 43 23) Joshua Vincent Nelson: one day Ryan and I recieved about... 1000+ emails to our inboxes
(20 43 31) Basant Sagar: ahhh
(20 43 35) Justin Graves: whoa
(20 43 40) Matt Cannella: crazy
(20 43 49) Joshua Vincent Nelson: but thats the first time it has happened in 5 years of my working with SEDS
(20 43 54) Joshua Vincent Nelson: for the most part the software works fine
(20 44 05) Me: eh, it's happened a number of times, only once that badly though
(20 44 07) Keri Hancock: Does the system sort it out for you or did you have to delete all 1,000 by yourself?
(20 44 08) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Any more questions on the seds.org email addresses and ticket system?
(20 44 20) Keri Bean: what if you've already done e-mails?
(20 44 28) Matt Cannella: Can we get email notifications of when our email's are up and running?
(20 44 39) Keri Bean: as in, I got about 3 messages from various people already and replied to them
(20 44 39) Joshua Vincent Nelson: thats fine Keri, just start using the seds.org addresses as soon as you are able
(20 44 44) Keri Bean: k
(20 44 52) Keri Hancock: ??
(20 44 53) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Matt, yes
(20 45 00) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Keri, I had to do them by hand
(20 45 05) Keri Hancock: o, wrong Keri, sorry
(20 45 11) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Anything else?
(20 45 22) Joshua Vincent Nelson: K.
(20 45 37) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Closing that item (we'll bring it up again next week once you've all had a chance to play with the software)
(20 45 57) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Who here has met/talked with their predecessor? (Yes/No/Doesnt exist)
(20 46 06) Basant Sagar: Yes
(20 46 07) Keri Hancock: No
(20 46 09) Matt Cannella: doesn't exist
(20 46 13) Keri Bean: yes!
(20 46 17) Rick Hanton (ISU): Yes (exchanged some e-mail)
(20 46 18) Grant Atkinson: yes
(20 46 21) zekesilva@gmail.com: yes
(20 46 33) Justin Graves: yes more will follow
(20 46 52) Me: I had a thoughtful discussion with myself
(20 46 57) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Good. I'm glad so many people have talked to their predecessors.
(20 47 02) Basant Sagar: awesome, ryan
(20 47 21) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Its important that you link up and find out what your predecessors have done, so you dont have to reinvent the wheel
(20 47 33) Keri Bean: oh geeze, I almost spit out my drink, good job Ryan :P
(20 47 39) Joshua Vincent Nelson: or can keep up the continuity on stuff they've been working on previously
(20 47 58) Joshua Vincent Nelson: This transitions me into our weekly updates
(20 48 02) Matt Cannella: I'll make sure nto to do that... as that would mean doing nothing
(20 48 03) Matt Cannella: haha
(20 48 09) Matt Cannella: *not
(20 48 13) Joshua Vincent Nelson: while we've been lax on weekly updates in the past
(20 48 31) Joshua Vincent Nelson: I'm going to make it a requirement of the board (myself included) to submit weekly reports on progress, etc...
(20 48 58) Matt Cannella: sounds good
(20 49 07) Joshua Vincent Nelson: These position updates should include what you've been working on, progress made in the last week, points for discussion, etc..
(20 49 19) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Even if you cant make the general meeting, they should be emailed to the listserv
(20 49 35) Joshua Vincent Nelson: and eventually we'll have you all post them to the wiki.
(20 50 17) Joshua Vincent Nelson: This week, in place of reports, I'd like everyone to go through what they've been working on since space vision SEDS related
(20 50 41) Joshua Vincent Nelson: I dont expect this to be much more than getting up to date, but give us a general walk through of what you've done, so others can get an idea of where they stand
(20 50 45) Joshua Vincent Nelson: starting with... Grant?
(20 51 02) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (to keep this from becoming hectic I'll call out people for their reports)
(20 51 32) Grant Atkinson: alrighty
(20 51 52) Grant Atkinson: Darrell sent me a list of the projects he had been working toward the end of his term
(20 52 26) Grant Atkinson: I've been going through them and mostly been trying to finish the things he was working on during the transition
(20 53 06) Grant Atkinson: i sent an email out on the CoC listserv introducing myself and asking for input on times for CoC meetings during the upcoming year
(20 53 33) Grant Atkinson: Josh, I also sent you the NSS opt-in list information that Darrell sent me
(20 53 47) Grant Atkinson: i didn't get any responses independent from Darrell so that should cover that issue
(20 53 49) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (once you're done say so so we can move to the next person)
(20 54 08) Grant Atkinson: that about covers what i've done so far
(20 54 27) Joshua Vincent Nelson: K
(20 54 32) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Rick?
(20 55 18) Rick Hanton (ISU): Ok, I have begun getting down to business today.
(20 55 51) Rick Hanton (ISU): I received some info from the previous Director of Expansion and have been updating that info.
(20 56 30) Rick Hanton (ISU): There is a form letter to send to universities as well as her current contacts. I will be getting some more information on where she was with some of the universities she was in the midst of talking to.
(20 57 29) Rick Hanton (ISU): Other than using that and some new lists on colleges we should attempt to get chapters at, I worked a little with Keri H. on plans to get new chapters maybe using some presentations or video presentations available on the web.
(20 58 20) Rick Hanton (ISU): She was planning on putting together a presentation format that I would then critique and eventually tweak for use in gaining new University chapters.
(20 59 02) Rick Hanton (ISU): We thought that maybe turning that into some kind of video presentation would be an excellent idea as well so that it is automated and can be easily viewed from the website.
(20 59 17) Rick Hanton (ISU): That is all I have for the present moment.
(20 59 42) Joshua Vincent Nelson: k thanks Rick
(20 59 49) Joshua Vincent Nelson: I guess that transitions well into Keri Hancock
(21 00 00) Keri Hancock: Ok.
(21 00 08) Keri Hancock: I have contacted the AAPT
(21 00 09) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (for my sake I'll be using Keri H and Keri B to differentiate between the two of you)
(21 00 31) Keri Hancock: which is the America Association of Physics Teachers
(21 01 22) Keri Hancock: Also I've been trying to get through to the NEA, which is the national education association (and since they are in Washington D.C. that has resulted in a lot of 5 am phone calls)
(21 01 44) Keri Hancock: I've also contacted all the state chapters of the NEA that we have college chapters in already
(21 02 08) Keri Hancock: I have received responses from both the Arizona and Florida chapters
(21 02 26) Keri Hancock: Arizona is happy to give us full compliance and help us in any way that they can.
(21 03 09) Keri Hancock: After talking with one of their representatives it seems best that we send out a newsletter to all their members through the Arizona chapter's listserv.
(21 03 26) Keri Hancock: The Florida chapter just started contacting me today
(21 03 48) Keri Hancock: we are going to be working out a plan before anything is done, and I have some ideas that I would like to run by everyone
(21 04 28) Keri Hancock: I have also been working on a presentation, going through the internet in search of really eye catching, high energy, videos.
(21 04 49) Keri Hancock: I looked at Nick Skyland's presentation again and didn't think it would work for a high school audience.
(21 05 31) Keri Hancock: I also talked to a few friends in the printing industry
(21 05 59) Keri Hancock: they are going to do all printing for free
(21 06 13) Keri Hancock: there are two projects that I would like to get from them to start with
(21 07 02) Keri Hancock: 1 was mentioned in the forum from the conference. I'm waiting for a friend to draw up commonly used physics equations for high schoolers and then would like to take that to an artist or two to spice it up a bit
(21 07 12) Keri Hancock: after I want to run that by a few teachers
(21 07 54) Keri Hancock: then I would like it posted on the website and some samples sent out to teachers with a link to the SEDS website so that they can print out more for their students at their expense and not ours if they like it
(21 08 34) Keri Hancock: The second project I am working on as far as printing goes is some notebook paper with shadow printing in the background of our logo, website, and some cool space photos.
(21 09 15) Keri Hancock: I have been looking through photos and after I find some will contact the right people to see if I can have the rights to use them
(21 09 27) Justin Graves left the room.
(21 09 41) Keri Hancock: I would like to use a few off of the SEDS website and was wondering if we have the rights to the photos in our gallery
(21 09 42) Justin Graves entered the room.
(21 10 21) Me: I believe the gallery is freely distributable
(21 10 21) Joshua Vincent Nelson: yes, all photos in there we should have rights to use, but when in doubt, ask the poster or myself
(21 10 29) Keri Hancock: I've talked a bit to both Rick Hanton and Keri Bean about their ideas for a high school presentation
(21 12 00) Keri Hancock: The final thing is that I just started working on a newsletter to send out to the members of the arizona chapter of the NEA, but wanted to run ideas through everyone at this meeting, as well as get permission to be contacting these organizations on the behalf of SEDS
(21 12 10) Keri Hancock: Ok, I'm done....sorry for the length
(21 12 11) Keri Hancock: :-D
(21 12 19) Joshua Vincent Nelson: no prob. Enthusiasm is not to be discouraged.
(21 12 21) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Thank you Keri
(21 12 41) Joshua Vincent Nelson: And before we move to the next person, I'd like to thank everyone for already working with eachother
(21 12 54) Joshua Vincent Nelson: its great to see directors involving others in their work
(21 13 00) Joshua Vincent Nelson: ok next.... Keri B?
(21 13 27) Keri Bean: okay! so far, as she mentioned, I've been chatting with the other Keri
(21 14 11) Keri Bean: today I got an e-mail from my advisor for our meteorology club and there's a science night/fair type thing going on next Thursday at a local elementary, so I jumped on the chance for a SEDS booth
(21 14 39) Keri Bean: at the educational outreach forum, several people agreed the idea of making a standardized outreach fair type event would be a great idea
(21 14 50) Keri Bean: so I'll be using that to kind of test the waters, so to speak
(21 15 24) Keri Bean: I've also been talking with Doug Mallette, and he thinks the best way to do outreach is to set up more chapters and sent a link to the top 100 universities
(21 15 30) Keri Bean: so I forwarded that onto Rick
(21 16 10) Keri Bean: also, Brian gave me a link of the Wiki that already has some outreach activities, so I definitely plan on trying to gather more ideas this week
(21 16 27) Keri Bean: and also, I've been throwing around the idea of recruiting someone from each chapter to help with outreach
(21 17 02) Keri Bean: I can't go to every single school, so if I have a team that'll be responsible for hosting our outreach events at their school, I think it'd be a greta help
(21 17 19) Keri Bean: that's all I've done so far!
(21 17 30) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Cool, thanks Keri #2!
(21 17 30) Grant Atkinson: i could raise the issue at the next CoC meeting
(21 17 34) Grant Atkinson: if you like
(21 17 38) Keri Bean: that'd be great
(21 17 43) Grant Atkinson: ok
(21 17 51) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Ok, next up... Zeke?
(21 19 06) zekesilva@gmail.com: Alright, well my predecessor just made contact with me today so I finally learned how to post meeting mins. on the wiki
(21 20 18) zekesilva@gmail.com: I also want to start including a brief synopsis of everyones progress reports above the meeting mins
(21 21 14) zekesilva@gmail.com: Other than that I've contacted some of my friends at other colleges, my high school and a friend's high school about starting SEDS chapters at their school
(21 21 52) Rick Hanton (ISU): Good to hear!
(21 22 03) Rick Hanton (ISU): Keep Keri and I posted on that.
(21 22 03) zekesilva@gmail.com: so far I've got replies from my high school and New Mexico Tech... My contact at tech is very interested so I gave him Keri's e-mail...
(21 22 11) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Cool beans.
(21 22 45) Keri Hancock: nope, wrong Keri :-)
(21 22 54) Matt Cannella: haha, this could get confusing
(21 23 09) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Justin G?
(21 23 13) Keri Bean: yeah, which Keri? o__O
(21 23 13) Justin Graves: ok
(21 23 33) zekesilva@gmail.com: Keri H
(21 23 50) Justin Graves: well so far its been off to a slow start. I have breifly made contact with my predecessor.
(21 23 51) Rick Hanton (ISU): If you're talking to a University, let me know. If a HS, let Keri know.
(21 24 12) zekesilva@gmail.com: Alright, then I'll give him yours :)
(21 24 21) Justin Graves: He said he has some mail coming for me which I haven't received yet.
(21 24 24) Keri Hancock: I was making a joke about the Bean thing....didn't mean to cause confusion....I'm just lame
(21 24 39) Keri Bean: ah haha
(21 24 42) Keri Bean: I get it all the time :P
(21 25 07) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Anything else Justin?
(21 25 13) Justin Graves: Haven't really been pestering him because in the last email he sent me he said he was busy and he would contact me in the next few days
(21 25 22) Joshua Vincent Nelson: k
(21 25 26) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Well keep at him :-)
(21 25 31) Justin Graves: I probably shoot him an email tonight (21 25 32) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Finance is an important position!
(21 25 39) Joshua Vincent Nelson: :-)
(21 25 43) Justin Graves: tthat's all
(21 25 50) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Next... Matt?
(21 26 13) Matt Cannella: alrighty... well, seeing as this position went unfilled last year, I'm in the brainstorming stages of what to do with this position to best benefit SEDS-USA and help out as many people as possible.
(21 26 41) Matt Cannella: As stated in my platform, I plan on creating a quarterly newsletter sent to all SEDS chapters, as well as an online blog/newsfeed for chapters to be kept up to date with the happenings of SEDS national. I'm hoping to create a better awareness and sense of community between chapters, so that if say A&M is holding an event, maybe UTexas SEDS could also join and be a part of that event.
(21 27 32) Matt Cannella: Eventually i'm hoping to make the blog a great source of SEDS news on a national scale. I was even thinking of including posts about space by our famous alumni or any other space people we can get (Loretta Whitesides, peter diamandis, etc.) to further boost the appeal of SEDS
(21 28 00) Matt Cannella: Also, I am planning on going through the old SEDS brochures, newsletters and such, and try to revamp them and update them as much as possible. If necessary, I will look into creating new brochures and other media to be sent out to potential sponsors, or other people interested in SEDS.
(21 28 44) Matt Cannella: Finally, in talking with the newsletter editor of my chapter (UBSEDS), I became aware that the University at Buffalo student organization offers free graphic design services to registered clubs (such as UBSEDS). Our chapter used this service this year to totally revamp our logo, letterhead, and the like, with great results. All that is required is about 2-3 weeks time.
(21 29 29) Matt Cannella: I want to use this service, as well as any other similar at any university to aid in the creation of such things. I think this could definitely help in projects like outreach and expansion, such as the physics equations art thing mentioned earlier. I have a sample of our new revamped logo i can send to the listserv or anyone that is interested.
(21 29 47) Grant Atkinson: I'd be interested in seeing it
(21 29 52) Keri Hancock: Same here
(21 30 02) Me: send it out to exec
(21 30 04) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Sounds great, a definite resource!
(21 30 06) Rick Hanton (ISU): Josh, do you mind if I ask a quick 2 questions?
(21 30 08) Matt Cannella: will do
(21 30 10) Matt Cannella: shoot
(21 30 13) Joshua Vincent Nelson: No prob, Rick?
(21 30 22) Rick Hanton (ISU): 1. Is the newsletter going to be text or HTML?
(21 30 43) Rick Hanton (ISU): 2. Is the RSS going to have general space / astronomy new info or just SEDS info?
(21 31 30) Matt Cannella: 1. either or... my initial thought was having an actual print newsletter to send out quarterly, and use the blog as a quick update sort of thing... maybe incorporate the SEDS calendar to have a "Chapter events" section or something
(21 31 30) Rick Hanton (ISU): This is just because I feel HTML e-mails to be more enticing and I already maintain a Iowa State SEDS rss about things like SpaceX etc.
(21 32 04) Rick Hanton (ISU): cool
(21 32 23) Matt Cannella: 2. I was thinking that if the blog goes well as just news updates and announcements from chapters of SEDS, we could expand it to have space stories as well
(21 32 34) Rick Hanton (ISU): ok, thanks!
(21 32 35) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (might be able to make an RSS feed that any SEDS member can post news to)
(21 32 52) Joshua Vincent Nelson: kinda combine the efforts of you Rick, and Matt)
(21 32 58) Matt Cannella: exactly.. I'll have to contact Iowa about that... could you shoot me an email with the editor of that?
(21 33 03) Rick Hanton (ISU): That would be cool.
(21 33 07) Rick Hanton (ISU): I edit it.
(21 33 10) Matt Cannella: oh, perfect
(21 33 14) Matt Cannella: well there we go
(21 33 34) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Cool beans. If no further questions... Basant?
(21 33 35) Matt Cannella: So i guess Id like to schedule a meeting with you, Josh so we can further discuss this, and then one with rick and then josh sosa about setting up a blog or some sort of news link. Also, once my publications email is set up, I plan on sending an email to each chapter, and make sure that I will receive news of chapters that dont have newsletters or regularly updated websites
(21 33 44) Matt Cannella: sorry, last bit... that is all
(21 33 51) Grant Atkinson: i have a question
(21 33 55) Matt Cannella: shoot
(21 34 12) Grant Atkinson: well not so much a question as an idea i suppose
(21 34 25) Grant Atkinson: what do you think about using the blog to allow SEDS members to post commentary about space issues?
(21 34 36) Grant Atkinson: i think that might be a good way to get a dialog going among different chapters
(21 34 43) Grant Atkinson: and in SEDS in general
(21 34 52) Matt Cannella: I was thinking that already... or incorporating sites such as explorerfish.com, space news websites started by seds members
(21 34 58) Grant Atkinson: sounds cool
(21 35 09) Matt Cannella: but obviously we'd have to limit it to certain people from each chapter
(21 35 16) Matt Cannella: or it could get extremely cluttered
(21 35 23) Grant Atkinson: yeah
(21 35 31) Grant Atkinson: say make everything go through the chapter reps
(21 35 35) Grant Atkinson: or something along those lines
(21 35 52) Matt Cannella: I guess basically i will talk to josh about prioritizing these ideas, and starting on ones that we need first
(21 36 03) Grant Atkinson: ok
(21 36 03) Joshua Vincent Nelson: K sounds good.
(21 36 07) Joshua Vincent Nelson: any more questions for Matt?
(21 36 25) Joshua Vincent Nelson: ok
(21 36 26) Matt Cannella: (sorry for the length and such... I have tons of ideas spinning in my head)
(21 36 28) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Basant?
(21 36 31) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (no prob Matt!)
(21 36 35) Basant Sagar: yeah
(21 36 38) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (Enthusiasm is good!)
(21 37 43) Basant Sagar: This week I did little things like updating my LinkedIn profile with SEDS stuff and facebooking Will Pomerantz, the projects guy at Xprize
(21 37 48) Basant Sagar: :-)
(21 37 52) Joshua Vincent Nelson: k
(21 37 57) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Ok
(21 38 09) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Ryan M, Josh S, and myself will forego updates this week
(21 38 16) Joshua Vincent Nelson: to keep the meeting reasonable.
(21 38 30) Joshua Vincent Nelson: Last item,
(21 38 38) Basant Sagar: I got an email from Bryan Young, who informed me about his plans to create a wiki about Texas A&M's hybrid rocket project
(21 38 56) Joshua Vincent Nelson: (ooops, sorry didnt realize you werent done.. continue!)
(21 39 11) Basant Sagar: a guy from UCF and one from SpaceX will be helping him in the process
(21 39 52) Joshua Vincent Nelson: anything else Basant?
(21 40 03) Basant Sagar: This weekend, I'll be reviewing the relevant materials related to SEDS projects
(21 40 38) Basant Sagar: In the meantime, if any of the exec board members come up with new project ideas, do keep me in the loop
(21 40 43) Basant Sagar: that's all
(21 40 55) Joshua Vincent Nelson: k
(21 41 00) Joshua Vincent Nelson: ok, so two last items
(21 41 24) Joshua Vincent Nelson: 1) I would like to have a phone or AIM conversation with each of you in the next few days before Thanksgiving
(21 41 37) Joshua Vincent Nelson: to go over what you want to do with your position, how I can help, etc...
(21 41 43) Joshua Vincent Nelson: so I'll IM you guys to schedule a time
(21 41 50) Joshua Vincent Nelson: lastly... Ryan?
(21 41 55) Me: you guys all now have accounts on seds.org
(21 42 05) Me: and have been connected to your appropriate tickets
(21 42 18) Me: you can also login to these accounts at support.seds.org/staff
(21 42 26) Me: if you are new, then your creds are
(21 42 33) Me: [last name][first initial]
(21 42 37) Me: eg mclinkor for me
(21 42 42) Me: and passwd:
(21 42 49) Me: please at least login to change your passwd
(21 42 59) Me: if you have questions, let me know
(21 43 02) Me: [that's all]
(21 43 10) Joshua Vincent Nelson: k
(21 43 22) Joshua Vincent Nelson: and on that note, also remember that we get alot of spam/scams sent to our emails
(21 43 29) Joshua Vincent Nelson: please use common sense when responding.
(21 43 42) Joshua Vincent Nelson: if you have questions on answering an email, let me or Ryan know
(21 43 46) Joshua Vincent Nelson: neither of us sleep much
(21 43 57) Matt Cannella: haha
(21 44 01) Rick Hanton (ISU): Me neither.
(21 45 14) Joshua Vincent Nelson: with no further items, I close the meeting
| 2008-2009 SEDS-USA Meetings |
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| Exec Board Transcripts: 11/24 | 12/01 | 12/08 | 12/22 | 1/5 | 1/12 | 1/19 | 1/26 | 2/2 | 2/9 | 2/16 | 2/23 | 3/2 | 3/9 | 3/16 | 3/23 | 4/6 | 4/13 | 4/20 | 4/27 | 5/4 | 5/11 | 5/18 | 5/25 | 6/1 | 6/8 | 6/15 | 6/22 | 6/29 | 7/6 | 7/13 | 7/20 | 7/27 | 8/3 | 8/10 | 8/17 | 8/24 | 8/31 | 9/7 | 9/14 | 9/21 | 9/28 | 10/5 | 10/6* | 10/12 | 10/20 | 10/26 | 11/2 | 11/9 | 11/16 |
| Council of Chapters Transcripts: 12/3 | 12/15 | 1/28 | 2/25 | 3/25 | 4/29 | 5/30 | 6/24 | 7/29 | 8/25 | 9/30 | 10/28 | 11/15 |
