2005-07-24

Currently set for 10pm EDT... open to change if that time is inconvenient, but 7pm EDT is the national conference call so it can't be any time 7-8pm.

What is/should be the purpose of these summer AIM chats?
I guess rather than heavy planning of our events and activities for next year, what we should be doing is Basically, we want to do stuff that will be useful no matter what everyone wants to do when we get back. We can't/shouldn't make commitments beyond the first few weeks of the semester, since we don't know who the active members will be or what their opinions will be.
 * 1) fixing our website and writing/making any materials we'll want for next year, and
 * 2) brainstorming things that we might want to do someday

Still, there are some tasks that we've come up with / assigned on past calls/chats, and I'd like to follow through with them before the year starts.

Following up on old business

 * Do we know what speakers we might want to have? Do we know who our first speaker (for week 2 of the semester) is?
 * Have we found out about speaker funding?
 * Have we determined how we would do the giant collage art project, or what materials we would buy? This is all theoretical at the moment, since we won't decide whether to do the art project or not until we are back at Swarthmore and operating.
 * Have we contacted the anime club about the possibility of a fan-subbing event?
 * Have we made progress on the website? What still needs to be done?
 * What can/should be done for the open access campaign, if we decide next year that we want to pursue it?

New business
If there's anything I've forgotten that we should act on over the summer, please write it here. Otherwise, it will be tabled until we return to school.