Archive:Board10/2010-07-01


 * Date: July 1, 2010
 * Time: 5:15pm PT / 8:15pm ET /
 * Conference call number: (712) 451-6100
 * Conference access code: 952725#

Tshirts update

 * (139 + 158) shirts left
 * Check sent to Fred for Tshirt balance
 * Is there a FC NYU locker? (Aditi will check it out...)
 * Donovan volunteered to handle shipping in short term
 * Storage is for time between now and conference
 * Sales strategy = wait until we've re-upped the census/ chapter contacts

Faculty Advisory Board

 * Nothing lost from adding people
 * Reaching out to two more people: Lemos, Liang
 * Ask Elizabeth
 * Share invitation doc (Kevin)
 * Annual activity, reviving connections?

Process for "signing on" to things?

 * Hard to implement a simple rubric because we don't have a clear set of values to test against
 * Board members look at it / take a vote / discuss?
 * How can we make it something other than an executive decision?
 * Open something up to fc-discuss?
 * Two days open to block
 * Signing on as "Board members of..." a chapter-based org

ACTA / Donovan

 * Blog post potential

Census

 * Donovan is handling current census activity
 * Relevant google doc:
 * http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvbQ383XA3K1dF9NcmVMZlZ1M0ZycE1hNUNwbTFjWWc&hl=en#gid=0

Web renovations

 * Parker will update us

Chapter database stuff

 * Chapters can fill out a gForm and it will post into a gDoc spreadsheet
 * http://freeculture.org/starting-a-new-chapter/
 * Ideal workflow (== email + gdocs + python glue):
 * User notices "new chapter" link
 * Fills out form, clicks Submit
 * You are then subscribed to FC-Discuss
 * Your info is automatically entered into a spreadsheet
 * Someone from SFC emails "Hey! Saw that you registered!"
 * This person has a phone call
 * The new chapter is "approved" and appears on the front of the site

Main website design/content refresh stuff
http://wpmu.freeculture.org/
 * Brainstorm doc:
 * https://docs0.google.com/document/edit?id=1iGmOMSDn3gofQbNdga87YmhT5FaFMV-eENpBeRkUWPU&hl=en#
 * How does the site read to newcomers/ potential members?
 * Friend testing?
 * Content changes can happen concurrently with design changes
 * Writing static pages

Conference 2011

 * Location hunt
 * NYC or Boston
 * Space requirements?
 * Lecture hall (~300 capacity)
 * Classrooms for breakouts/unconf/workshops/etc (10 x ~20-30 cap ea.)
 * Time
 * Day 1: 7am-6pm
 * Day 2: 10am-6pm?
 * Date
 * Three-day weekends
 * First choice: MLK, Jan 17
 * Second choice: Pres, Feb 21
 * Optional third day action/work/hack sessions
 * http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2011.asp
 * Regular IRC meeting?
 * Make a conf11@ listserv

TODO

 * Does the NYU FC locker exist? (Aditi)
 * parker: mail kozak letting him know that this is our course of action
 * If so, ship them to NYU
 * If not, is there someone else in NYC with space to store them?
 * If not not, ultimate back-up == PP's parents' place
 * Share invitation doc (Kevin)
 * Take census off KDs plate (email kevin donovan)
 * parker: get all the board members accounts on the wpmu install so that they can edit static page content
 * adi: mail board@, list the static pages at wpmu.freeculture.org, ask people to take care of revising things
 * parker: collect and package up the scattered notes about the site refresh--including old emails from moskowitz
 * Explore MIT contacts, Stata? (Kevin + everyone)
 * cc board@ on everyyyyything
 * parker: conference site updated. (new site should be at conference11.freeculture.org)
 * parker: get david doria and the board on the conference11@ list
 * parker: mail out to discuss@ inviting people to join the conference11@ list
 * Hit up David Doria re: Conf11 planning meeting in IRC (Kevin)