2005-06-26

Our first stab at a meeting on AIM! Let's see how this goes...

Agenda

 * Website update
 * History page
 * About page
 * Are there any other pages that need to be written / created?
 * Long-term plan update (see the minutes from the long-term planning meeting at 2005-02-27)
 * Update/finish SWOT analysis (hopefully this is done before the meeting)
 * Further research/planning for meetings when we get back in the fall
 * When exactly is the activities fair? Can someone research this?
 * Open access?
 * Speakers?

Minutes
Attendance: Nelson Pavlosky '06, David A. Benitez '06, Ben Blonder '08, Alex Benn '08, Ben Plotkin-Swing '09, David German '08, Eliza Blair '07, Andrew Abdalian '06, Eric Astor '09

Discussion about how to increase attendance

 * invite entire SCDC list
 * talk to members of class of '09

Website content

 * Ben Blonder needs content for website
 * Nelson Pavlosky already wrote a History page
 * Alex Benn will do About page

Long-Term Plan

 * Alex still hasn't written up the long-term plan in paragraph form
 * he says he'll do it this week though, now that he has something else assigned

Broader Membership Base

 * need to get more people of different types
 * need means of outreach
 * ideas:
 * media server
 * barbecue
 * giant collage art project
 * Benitez will look into materials
 * this would be an excellent chance to talk about copyright law
 * symbolic figures (e.g. Mickey Mouse), copyright symbols, Diebold memos could all be incorporated

Activities Fair

 * nobody knows when it is in the fall
 * Eric Astor '09 will try to find out when it is

Open Access
This topic was tabled because the knowledgeable parties were not present.

Speakers

 * Trying to figure out who to invite, both Eben and Lessig come up (we've already done both, so these are no good... Lessig's speech can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/LessigAtSwarthmore )
 * Benitez suggests that we invite a Wikimedia/Wikipedia person, everyone thinks this is a good idea

National Calls

 * Nelson suggests that everyone who can should try to make it to at least one national call
 * They are on Sundays at 7 PM EDT
 * The number is available upon request from Nelson (or anyone on either the FCS or the national core mailing lists)