2007 August 21 SEDS-USA Exec Transcript

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[18:05]  RolandBolser Voom: (whistles dryly)
[18:05]  Ryanblah Qinan: piece of !@#$%^&*() software
[18:06]  Ryanblah Qinan: where is everyone
[18:06]  RolandBolser Voom: yeah
[18:06]  You: Ryan says he can't log in
[18:06]  Ryanblah Qinan: I'm in
[18:06]  You: and is trying another comp
[18:06]  You: cool
[18:06]  Ryanblah Qinan: yeah, for some reason SL won't run on my desktop
[18:06]  Ryanblah Qinan: apparently it knows better
[18:07]  Ryanblah Qinan: did you get anyone else saying they couldn't come
[18:07]  Darrell Abel: Josh was only online briefly
[18:07]  Darrell Abel: and not in SL
[18:07]  You: nope, and Brian Y. even added to the agenda
[18:08]  Ryanblah Qinan: maybe others are having sl issues
[18:08]  You: Well since no one else is online now we should get started
[18:09]  Ryanblah Qinan: k
[18:09]  You: Alright, Jake can you explain this whole scholarrship issue about Ben
[18:09]  You: (this isgoing off the record and won't be in the minutes)
[18:10]  You: someone wake him up lol
[18:10]  Ryanblah Qinan: morning sunshine
[18:10]  You: Hey Jake...
[18:10]  RolandBolser Voom: hmm?
[18:10]  RolandBolser Voom: I was unaware
[18:10]  RolandBolser Voom: wait
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: is htis the message I sent with a lot of exclamation points
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: and talking about an international incident?
[18:11]  You: yes
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: but key point lots of exclamation points
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: that was a joke
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: I tried to put in enough so that you would catch that
[18:11]  You: ah
[18:11]  Ryanblah Qinan: that's what I thought
[18:11]  RolandBolser Voom: did that really delay things?
[18:12]  Ryanblah Qinan: is there a background to this
[18:12]  RolandBolser Voom: yeah
[18:12]  You: Well I heard he asked some sort of controversial question
[18:12]  RolandBolser Voom: he asked the people in China about if they would share access to H3 and if they were pursuing it
[18:13]  RolandBolser Voom: and China is....China
[18:13]  Darrell Abel: yeah..but did they react?
[18:13]  Darrell Abel: I thought they were kinda cool about it
[18:13]  Ryanblah Qinan: who is "people in china"
[18:14]  RolandBolser Voom: thye were fine with it
[18:14]  RolandBolser Voom: his note just said that he thought he almost started an international incident
[18:14]  RolandBolser Voom: people in china is the director or similar position guy in the Chinese equivalent of NASA
[18:14]  You: ok
[18:14]  Ryanblah Qinan: k
[18:15]  You: So it was clearly a misunderstanding
[18:16]  You: There were no other objections to giving Ben the scholarhsip
[18:16]  You: Ryan, were you in contact with him? Do you want to email him?
[18:16]  Ryanblah Qinan: other than the meeting last week, I wasn't, but I can email him
[18:17]  You: Oh ok
[18:17]  Ryanblah Qinan: how much was it again
[18:17]  You: $500
[18:17]  Ryanblah Qinan: k
[18:17]  You: not that much
[18:17]  You: Kirk is in possession of this money
[18:17]  You: I'll email Kikr
[18:18]  Ryanblah Qinan: ok
[18:18]  Ryanblah Qinan: he's going to get seti to match it
[18:18]  You: wow cool
[18:18]  Ryanblah Qinan: so 1k shoudl cover pretty well the cost to india
[18:18]  Ryanblah Qinan: ok, so you'll email kirk and I'll email ben?
[18:19]  You: Yes
[18:19]  You: Great then this is settled
[18:19]  You: Moving on
[18:20]  You: I sent the SEDS-USA Introduction to SEDS-Earth
[18:20]  You: and it will be on the blog soon
[18:20]  You: Does anyone else have an announcement?
[18:21]  Ryanblah Qinan: I've sent off the seds/aas mailings to jim kirkpatrick
[18:21]  Ryanblah Qinan: so those will hit their lists soon
[18:21]  Ryanblah Qinan: and I've sent off the endowment fund info to peter for review
[18:21]  You: cool
[18:22]  You: Brian had his meeting w/ Josh Powers but I guess we will hear about that next time
[18:22]  Ryanblah Qinan: what was thi smeting for
[18:22]  You: next year's ISDC I think
[18:22]  Ryanblah Qinan: k, cool
[18:22]  You: not sure of the extent
[18:23]  Ryanblah Qinan: yeah, i was talking to george
[18:23]  Ryanblah Qinan: he said that he's going to try to set up even more special sessions next yer
[18:23]  Ryanblah Qinan: and we'll definitely have a booth again
[18:23]  You: cool
[18:23]  Ryanblah Qinan: (I've set up an indefinitely lasting agreement with them for in-lkind booths at isdc and spacevision)
[18:24]  Ryanblah Qinan: like for xpc
[18:24]  You: great
[18:24]  You: that will be very useful
[18:24]  You: How has conference registration been going?
[18:25]  Ryanblah Qinan: haven't gotten much to hit yet
[18:25]  Ryanblah Qinan: presumably since there are no deadlines approaching
[18:25]  Ryanblah Qinan: (according to kirk's theory of registration at least)
[18:25]  You: haha
[18:25]  You: understandable
[18:25]  You: Other updates?
[18:26]  Ryanblah Qinan: I think we asked this before
[18:26]  Ryanblah Qinan: but are you guys planning on going to xpc
[18:26]  RolandBolser Voom: if brian can pick me up from El Paso, then probably
[18:26]  You: most likely - Illinois will be sending people but plans have not been made yet
[18:26]  Ryanblah Qinan: yeah, I'm along the same lines, but also contingent on space elevator team
[18:27]  You: Yeah, we want more people to attend sv07 this year
[18:27]  You: and it may redce the number at xpc
[18:27]  You: so I'll see
[18:27]  Ryanblah Qinan: understandable
[18:28]  Ryanblah Qinan: it's unfortunate they're so close
[18:28]  You: yeah
[18:28]  You: Last annoucements for this meeting?
[18:29]  You: Ok then I guess it is over
[18:29]  You: I'll send the transcript to Carissa