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

• Wendy Seltzer
• Ed Felten

Kevin

• 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"

Conference

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 PT