SC Minutes 1-7-05

SC Minutes for January 2005:1/7/05 11:00 AM ESTPresent: Reuben, Rich, Amanda, Steve, JohnAbsent:ArifAgenda: 1.Assign a note taker: (john)2.possible new board members: Amanda asked Rich if he still intended to step off the SC as per his announcement in the spring/summer 2004. Rich said he still intended to step down in the future. Reuben added that he is also looking to step down in the future. John liked what he heard about Mark Bucciarellifrom hubcap consulting as a possible SC member.Rich has spoken with Michelle Feldman (from NYC, documents PHPAdmin), Tom Panzarella (fund for city of ny and dotorganics)Other names: Anders Schneiderman of the SEIU(Service Employees Intl Union). And John Lorance. Rich suggested a mozilla foundation person or a FSF person.Rich wants to have John call potentials with a sort of general list of things we need help on to gauge interest and commitment. What the list of questions would be hasn't been talked about. Reuben suggests getting some activities together that volunteers could help out on, would allow potential board members to make themselves apparent through the quality of their volunteer commitment.3. Help with Spring NTCSteve will be presenting at the Spring NTC. He needs to line up some speakers. He asked for some help locating people. He also asked Amanda if her co-workers “script” re: integrating OS into NPO's was available. Amanda said probably so. Amanda said that could be shared and possibly linked from the NOSI website. She will check into this. 4. Penguin Day John talked with Katrin Verclas, she is hoping Steve will rep NOSI in Chicago, and that Amanda will rep in NYC. Katrin has offered to fly/get John to SF for Penguin Day in February.. Katrin asked what NOSI wants to accomplish with these appearances? Katrin thinks we might use it as a way to define our needs and recruit volunteers from the OS community to help accomplish them.:Reuben: we can use these events to do focus grouping. Ex: What do people need from a NOSI as a community building entity? It was useful at the last penguin day, hearing from people what they need and what we should be working on. It would be helpful in directing us.(ex: it helped us draft our proposal to IBM) The community asset map was a good project, although it isn't clear exactly what became of it.Amanda: We could have NOSI's name on some of the information for the Penguin Day events. In return we can serve as a conduit to get the word about the days out, help Aspiration to recruit locals who may be on our list, get it on the website etc.Rich: we could be co-sponsor co-convening. Amanda: if we are going to co sponsor we have to be able to come to Aspiration with something specific.Rich: Perhaps we could do a follow up to the community asset map. An “Action Map” whose goal would be volunteer recruitment effort.5) update from John John has worked about 10 hours a week to NOSI because of other work commitments.An official NOSI phone number has been set up which is 12025585489 John have been working on a list of upcoming events in 2005. This should be available for collaborative editing on the NOSI site soon. Once I have the kinks worked out I will let people know and invite them to add to it. If we can get people to commit to going, we can enable the calender module and post it as “official” Nosi appearances. Criteria for volunteers doing an event as a NOSI rep should be a report and ideally a picture from the event so that we get some community building pr out of our sending primers etc.John: would like to have information from our previous success stories and then I would like to check in with them for follow up and possible some feature stories with pics. Amanda will send along the db of agencies that registered on the website for John to do follow up on. Rich (or Reuben) thinks we can get pictures from some of the agencies that we featured in the TCO study.John would like other SC members to respond to emails.6. other business Q: has anyone done any work on the on line donation front? A: Amanda attempted to contact our fiscal sponsor via email, with no response. Reuben will make a call and see if we can get them to help us set up a network for good account. Rich has offered the help of the OC to setup a sub account under their auspices if our agent can't help us.Q:Whats the status of the NOSI request to IBM. A: This has stalled for the moment, but Rich is going to hand this off to John and has in fact contacted Reg Foster to let him know that this is the case. The web subcommittee is going to schedule a conference call for a Friday before the next months SC call to talk about look, functionality and how volunteers can help out. John will help set this up.The Cafe could use volunteer help. Steve will put out a call on the list to start grooming volunteers for this work.Rich announced that the Grassroots Use of TechnologyConference is ccming up in Boston with dates to be announced on list in the near future.Amanda asked people to use the Nosi-steering list. John and Rich thought that it had some privacy issues re: fund raising and the like that should be thought about. Amanda withdrew the request for the time being.Rich suggested that when sending emails to other SC members we append [NOSI] so that clients can properly handle the mail.