Minutes taken by Ashley Crace
ASIS&T Meeting 11/2/11 5pm central
Attendees:
- Elizabeth Levkoff
- Greg Carr
- Ashley Crace
- Audrey Taylor
- Patty Crow
- Stephen Asbury
- William
- Mike
Minutes:
- Meeting began at 5:01pm CST
- Amendments to constitution to split treasurer/secretary and include technology coordinator position
- Definition of technology coordinator?
- Vote on creating positions. Vote=majority to create
- No hazing, University of Alabama policy
- Dues and fines-cannot implement until after January 1st, $40 for national, $10 to join just student chapter. Vote=majority votes yes
- Benefits of joining national: JASIST, networking, job line, conferences
- New membership form: on website and Facebook
- What other student groups do: trivia night, how to presentations, blogs, etc.
- What do we want to be about? How often to meet?
- Tornado relief project volunteering, coordinate with other organizations in SLIS, SAC VP trying to coordinate
- Bama Buddies? Elizabeth will pursue
- Social media: Facebook, twitter, website, twitter room
- Dr. Chirag Shah event from Rutgers, November 10th approx. 1 hour, big deal in ASIS&T; try to get good showing
- Chapter of the year/Poster presentations: What does a good chapter look like? Cool tools, updating weekly or twice weekly, new sites, linking to technology and speakers on site, social media and blogs about current events
William-distributed computing: with personal PC, research projects throughout world, lend hard drive to research projects for computing power to conduct research http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
- November 17th plan? Working on program idea
- Content for website based on individual interests twice a month
- Discussion of advertising for events and programs
Adjourned 5:27 pm CST