2 March 1999 Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Dining Room
Next Meeting: April 6, 1999 in Taubman C at the Kennedy School
Attending: Leslie Donnell (Chair), Peter Cohn (Minutes), Ginny Iandiorio, Vince Kimball, Michael Leach, Pat Flanagan
Minutes
The minutes from the February 2nd meeting were approved for both the web and headquarters.
Action:Peter will send to headquarters and Ginny will put on the web.
Summary of Previous action items:
1. Peter sent the minutes to headquarters and Ginny posted them on the web.
2. Beata still needs to contact Ginny about arranging a trip to Simmons.
3. Beata still needs to rearrange the text of the travel award application and announce the award.
4. Vince got the final figures from the XML program. See below.
5. Don't know if Michael has emailed people who have volunteered for the newsletter.
6. Michael is still working on getting the newsletter up.
7. The slide presentation is up on the web page.
8. The minutes from the last 2 board meetings are up on the web page.
9. XML evaluations have been analyzed. Feedback was positive.
10. David Kahle is not interested in joining the Program Committee.
11. Mary Angelini is interested in joining the Program Committee (?)
12. Michael hasn't checked out the audiotapes yet.
13. See Program Committee below.
14. Adriana Younskevicius is sending information about Infoshare to Leslie. We'll go over this information at the next board meeting.
15-16. Pat still needs to find out about her person's availability for Distinguished Speaker. Michael's possibility is not feasible. It would cost too much money.
17. The nominations committee is still deciding on a candidate for Chapter Member of the Year.
Treasury Report
[Vince reporting]
Vince distributed figures from the XML Program. We made $923.44.
Newsletter
[Michael reporting]
The newsletter should be out within a week. Michael is still working on getting new editors. In the future Michael thinks we should take pictures at our programs for the newsletter.
Program Committee
[Michael reporting]
The Program Committee met on February 23. The XML program evaluations have been analyzed and response was very positive. In the future the committee will go back to plastic nametags and get them back at the end of the program so that we can reuse them. They'll also have a box for people to drop off their evaluations.
They are trying to schedule the spring program for the first week of May at MIT. The idea is to have a fairly big name speaker, an award ceremony (student paper and chapter member of the year), followed by a social hour. A speaker has not been chosen yet.
For a summer program they are looking a hands on, members only, web graphics class.
For the fall, the committee is exploring the possibility of a 1 day program on Intelligent Agents. This would take place sometime between September 8-10.
The committee made some decisions on material to add to the web site. These include: Program Committee membership list, a list of past programs, and possibly an interactive survey for members to vote on topics for NEASIS programs. They are also going to put a program planning checklist up. For this type of internal information it would be nice to have a password protected part of the web site for the program committee.
Action: Ginny will contact headquarters to see if we can set up a password protected page for the committee. She will also ask about setting up the interactive polling facility.
The program committee is exploring the possibility of a more complex evaluation form. This would enable us to do more statistical analysis, get more feedback on facilities, etc.
Action: Peter will check the archives to see which programs we have evaluations for.
Finally, the committee is looking at having a program outside of Boston. This may be the summer program. To decide on a location they need a geographic breakdown of the New England membership. Who is getting this for them?
Membership
[Beata was away so we don't have a membership report.]
Spring Awards:
As mentioned above, the Program Committee is looking at having this at MIT.
Action: Michael will also ask David Suiter if there are any facilities at BU that could be used for this.
The program will probably be in May.
Miscellany
David Suiter needs a list of past programs and locations.
Action: Peter will compile a list.
Summary of Action Items:
Action:
1. Beata still needs to contact Ginny about arranging a trip to Simmons.
Action:
2. Beata still needs to rearrange the text of the travel award application and announce the award.
Action:
3. Michael will check quality of XML audiotapes.
Action:
4. Pat will find out about her person's availability for Distinguished Speaker.
Action:
5. Ginny will contact headquarters to see if we can set up a password protected page for the committee. She will also ask about setting up the interactive polling facility.
Action:
6. Peter will check the archives to see which programs we have evaluations for.
Action:
7. Michael will ask David Suiter if there are any facilities at BU that could be used for this.
Action:
8. Peter will get a list of past program titles and locations for David Suiter.
