Archive:Board10/2010-10-02/Minutes

Boarding meeting AFK

 * Aditi
 * Parker
 * Adi
 * Kevin

Chapter census

 * Linked to google doc instead of db
 * Wanted feature: be able to hide a chapter without deleting things
 * Next actions
 * Ideally no more broken links
 * List on site should better match reality
 * Get chapter leaders on chapters@

New chapters?

 * Into which form is this data going?
 * Who is monitoring this?
 * Responding to chapter inquiries

Alumni, defunct chapters?

 * Need simple way to keep in touch with alumni members
 * Mechanism to store info about inactive chapters so we can help people who are interested in re-activation

Faculty advisory board

 * Need to reach out for the fall

Breakout the list
Aditi
 * Biella Coleman
 * Pat Aufderheider
 * Stephen Duncombe

Parker
 * Larry Lessig
 * Mike Nelson

Adi Kevin
 * Wendy Seltzer
 * Ed Felten
 * Henry Jenkins
 * James Boyle

Andrea
 * Rebecca Mackinnon
 * Kembrew McLeod

OA Week

 * http://www.oaweek.org/
 * Right to research campaign resources
 * Integrate with chapter census
 * Overprice tags

Tools?

 * Gdocs is becoming unwieldy
 * Need a space in addition to the wiki that is private
 * Better wiki gardening
 * Could we have a central index gdoc with links to all the other important ones
 * To enable easier handoff
 * Basecamp/project management service?

SFC employee?

 * Thinking about half-time employment
 * Monthly stipend?
 * Is there a band-aid solution?
 * What needs to happen before we reach out to employees?
 * Rock + hard place
 * Reasons we haven't been moving forward are things that would be solved by employee

Paths to victory

 * Raising money for an employee to help us get to 501(c)3
 * With the goal of this person potentially becoming the full employee

First task?

 * Finish 501(c)3 process

Self-documentation

 * How to run a conference
 * "How to select a date"
 * "How I secure a space"

Work day

 * Structure around Wheeler
 * How to make this day more productive?
 * Starting things in advance
 * Retaining some flexibility for issues that jump up

Fundraising

 * Generate 1page summary

Travel, chapter outreach

 * "Save the date"

Promotion

 * Conf11 design, blog skin, flyers, logo
 * Ducruet said she'd help with design

Election committee

 * Make a call on discuss@, chapters@

Next actions

 * Create a gdoc with things to do
 * Parker blog post re gdocs

Census

 * Another push to get everyone on discuss@
 * Update leaders contacts on chapters@
 * Chop up FAB contact list and send emails "hi! fall 2010"
 * Final blog post re: last 3 FAB members
 * Save the date for chapters

OA Week

 * Blog post with 3 things they can do (easy, easy, hard) + links to oaweek.org (Adi)
 * OA at 2 levels: university + national policy (FERPA, )

Employee

 * Email broad@, fred, elizabeth, donovan, alex
 * Stipend for spring semester
 * Kickstarter
 * Job is to lay foundation for a longer-term employee
 * Also experiment in working with an employee

Conference

 * How to run a conference wiki page (Aditi)
 * Driscoll share FCX docs
 * Mail discuss re: unconference day planning (Driscoll)
 * Generating 1-page (Driscoll)
 * Follow up on previous year's fundraising (Driscoll)
 * Save the date: email (Aditi)
 * Save the date / announcement: (Andrea)
 * Put content on wordpress install (Adi + Parker)
 * Nudge Christina about imagery (Parker)
 * On-going brainstorming around invitees (Everyone)

Next call

 * 10/24, 4pm ET / 1pm PT