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NEASIST Board Minutes, November 8, 2005,
Conference Room, Barker Engineering Library, MIT

Present: Beatrice Pulliam (Chair), Margret Branschofsky (Past-Chair), Caryn Anderson (Program Committee Chair), Christine Connors (Secretary), Dick Luxner (Membership Chair), Nicole Hennig.

Also in attendance: S.J. Klein (regarding Wikimania 2006)

Action Items:
1. Caryn and Program Committee: Maintain contact with S.J. Klein; consider Wikimania 2006 and how we can contribute.
2. Beatrice: Send a copy of the proposed survey to the Board for review
3. Caryn: Forward related survey materials to the Board, including ASIST Survey results published in the Jan. 2005 JASIST.
4. Margret: Contact Vince and determine status of year-end report to HQ.
5. All: Brainstorm ideas for the Newsletter. Consider members who might be willing to take on the task.
6. Dick: Send a copy of the new member letter to the Board for review.

Order of Business:

1. Introductions of the new board members

2. Wikimania 2006

a. The order of business was modified to allow us to hear from Sam and allow him to leave in a timely manner.
b. Wikimania 2006 will be held in Boston, and the local planning committee is seeking support. Jessica Baumgart made the introductions via Beatrice.
c. Sam gave us an overview of the Wikimedia foundation, the MediaWiki projects and the last conference.
d. Sam gave us a brief status on the planning for the 2006 conference.
e. Information can be found at MetaWiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and
Wikimania 2006 (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006
f. Questions can be sent to Sam at sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu
g. We need to determine what our contribution will be (task assigned to Program Committee).

3. October Minutes approved

4. Survey

a. Ken Varnum volunteered to program the first survey.
b. Beatrice will send a copy to the Board for review.
c. Caryn referenced the survey published in 01/05 JASIST and will forward to the Board.

5. It is not believed that Vince (past Treasurer) has sent the year-end report to headquarters. Neither Margret nor Beatrice has seen a copy. Failure to comply can jeopardize our funding / result in penalties per the Chapter manual. Margret will follow up with him.

6. Program Committee Report

a. Hacks Program

i. 59 registrants at time of meeting
ii. Approximately $3000 collected

b. Cohen Program

i. 32 registrants at time of meeting

c. Deadline for both programs is Friday, 11/11/05
d. Reminders sent to the mail list by Beatrice.

7. Archives

a. Dave was not available for this meeting. He will pull together the information on what we have and how we can access it.

8) Revive Newsletters

a. Beatrice suggested that we revive the NEASIST newsletter, last published in 1996. The goal is to improve outreach to current members who are not active.
b. A question, or questions, should be added to the survey – Would you read? Would you contribute?
c. We need to brainstorm ideas, including whom we might ask to take on the role of editor.

9) Website

a. There is a loose team of Beatrice, Kyle Nicholls, Paul Aloisio and Christine Quirion looking at a re-design of the NEASIST website.
b. New board members detailed their contact information for updating the site.

10) New member letter

a. Dick asked if we want to revise the letter Joanne had been using. He will send that copy to the Board for review.

 

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