Executive Council Telecon Minutes
March 13, 1997
Time: 7:30 pm EST
Participants: Eric Anderson, Mike Moreau, Brian Roberts, Jane Thorpe
Summary of Actions from Meeting
- B. Roberts and H. Ridings to present NAAA to Space Grant Directors on March 15, 1997 at the Channel Inn in Washington, D.C.
- J. Thorpe to complete Newsletter to be distributed at SGD meeting.
- Goal set to have everyone on-board with the Information Database by May 1, 1997.
- New version of the By-Laws on the way from M. Moreau.
- Special Projects discussed - see section below
I. National Space Grant Directors Meeting Presentation
Presentation has been changing quite often. The phone call campaign has not
been as successful as we had hoped. The information gathered will be used
in the newsletter and fact sheet. Copies of the presentation should be
available by means other than the compressed files that have been attached
to messages.
Overview of slides
Goals for the NAAA to be included will include the ensuring ofinteraction
between RA's and Space Grant should be a goal.
II. Contact Database
Our goal should be to have everyone on-board before the summer
convention. Suggested that we break down RAs into Easy, Medium, Hard
to find people and plan to contact each group paying more attention to
and spending more time on the hard-to-find people.
Decided unanimously that a plan for doing this is needed and that the SEDS
database and the GSFC databases be merged. In addition a transition
plan from the current summer database to the alumni database needs to be
developed.
Concluded that we shouldn't rely on each person to update their own records
and that a contact from each year might be designated for this purpose.
Decided that we need a Web page that doesn't move. Eric took the action
to find out about registering a domain name that would point to an
existing web site. Email listserving options would be available via
this route as well.
It was suggested that each of us make a file of the ideas that we have
between telecons and that in the near future we delineate more clearly the
duties of each officer.
III. Constitution
Constitution is done in final format. By-Laws are still coming. Something up by Sunday.
IV. Approaching rest of Academy
Need to talk about later
V. Meeting with Soffen
Discussed it earlier during SGPresentation discussion
VI. Projects for people to go with
Student funded by alumni
Study for approaching companies, etc.
Future Events or Goal:
VII. Next Telecon
TBD
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