February 2005 SC minutes

February Conference Call 2/11/05Present: Reuben, Rich, Amanda and John:Absent: Steve, Arif Report from Web sub comittee: Amanda wants to do a survey on the site. She wants to capture info that might later be part of a more comprehensive document. Amanda will write up some logic about why its needed: She wants to get best practices from people. She'll post to the list to make sure people know that there is a survey in progress.Rich likes the idea as well, and feels like it would feed into or work with Reg. Amanda agrees this is a nice tie in to our funding request for reg.Reuben says survey's could provide the basis for a further discussion maybe. Amanda will compile.Amanda, one of the things that we covered was the prospect of volunteers and set up a committee that would take up ownership on the website. Perhaps that could be turned over to a person and group that could work on it. Amanda would coordinate.Rich says its best to try to form a volunteer committee so that they won't feel isolated. Volunteering is also a social phenomenon. This is a general comment about how to handle volunteers. This is also a way to recruit leadership in the future.Amanda says we should compile a list of volunteer type activities.Rich says we could create a 'cafe kit'. The software that you download. A description of how to set up your own cafe. A volunteer committee could help drive this. Amanda says that Steve would need to head this up.Amanda asked Rich to contact Steve with his ideas for the cafe.Rich suggested we have an online 'fix the website' party to focus attention on getting issues worked out. This idea didn't seem to have traction at the moment.Reuben asked if any of us come up with things on the site that need to be changed or fixed should we drop Amanda a note? Amanda says we should fix it ourselves and let the SC know.Rich saw some modules for list of orgs to be entered and Rich would give it to Amanda to examine for possible inclusion on the site. John how about a email list or forum spot for web volunteers interested in helping out. Amanda says that this might be a good start for using the forum. [She will work at getting this started when she has time.????]