CSIRP Board Meeting Tuesday November 5, 2001 at 8 PM EDT Barry Rueger (Wise, Virginia) Victoria Fenner (Wise, Virginia) Douglas Samuel (Ottawa, Ontario) Andy Posthumus (Edmonton, Alberta) Dave Kattenburg (Brandon, Manitoba) Heather Majoury (Windsor, Ontario) Chris Brooks (St Johns, Newfoundland) Meeting started at 8:02 PM EST AGENDA 1) Additions to Agenda 2) Approval of Agenda 3) Approval of Previous Minutes 4) Action Items From Last Meeting A. Membership Development - (Hal) Hal is not here to report but we believe that we are moving ahead. Still a priority. Each Board member will sign three members by Fiscal Year End. C. Privacy of lists policy (Douglas) - Douglas has circulated it. Policy Accepted. D.Website design and designer - (Victoria) Coming very nicely. Andrew MacMillan has been hired, and work is going very well. Content is needed. New site should be up by November 30th as planned. Barry will have a report from the facilitated web discussion within the week. E. Newsletter advertising - (Heather) - Heather has done some research, and is ready to start approaching likely prospects. She will make some calls before leaving for her new job. F. Graphic design contest - (Victoria) - no response, but Andrew can work on it. G. Budget - 2002 an 2003 budgets are still to be developed. The Board will develop a visioning exercise involving membership. Barry will take this on and keep it moving. H. Standard agreement for projects - (Barry and Dave) will draft a draft. I. Lobbying - (Heather will head this). J. Awards - still in development. Barry and Chris will continue to work. Still in the works K. Money - Douglas will take a substantial amount and place it in a good interest bearing instrument for the next several months. Still to be done. L. Deep Wireless - a full report will be made for the next meeting. DW was postponed, so no report is due. DW will be April 27 and 28th. M. Dave - Telefilm Canada application to develop audio webserver for Canadian Producers. Victoria and Dave will continue to develop these. The RFP has yet to be released, so this is still pending. N. Future Regional Meetings - to next meeting. Victoria will organize an Ontario regional meeting in conjunction with the Trillium workshops. Janna Graham would like to organize a similar meeting in the Maritimes. No work done yet. 4) Treasurer's Report and Financial Statement - Doug Things have not changed much from last time. Some membership income has come in. Records are being moved back to a spreadsheet. "We're not saying we don't want your filthy lucre - we want it!" Victoria suggests that we now need a budget review showing expenses and income to date. 5) New Membership Brochure - Victoria emailed Hal. It is unsure whether this is needed. On hold til new year 6) Website section for member bios and contact info (Victoria) We'll look at it for next spring. 7) Newsletter Report - (Barry) Next issue in December. All Board members are asked to write articles. 8) Current Projects - Full Moon moves to Quebec, and we expect a very quick response to registration. Chris Brooks is one of the Artists in Residence. Trillium: February, March, April workshops in Peterborough, Windsor, and Toronto Radiant Dissonance. Victoria plans to apply to produce a new series. 9) Next Meeting Date - confirm for January 7/2002 10) Motion to Adjourn at 8:53 ** Action Items ** 1) Membership Development - Each Board member will sign three members by FYE - (All Board Members) 2) Web Facilitated Report - Barry will have a report from the facilitated web discussion within the week. (Barry) 3) Newsletter advertising - The first group of potential advertisers will be contacted by month end (Heather) 4) Graphic design - Andrew will come up with some designs. (Victoria) 5) Visioning and Budget Development - We will initiate a visioning process involving our membership. This will start in the new year. (Barry) 6) Standard agreement for projects - Will draft an agreement. By year end. (Barry and Dave) 7) Awards Still in development. Barry and Chris will continue to work. (Barry and Chris) 8) Lobbying - Heather will continue when she is near Ottawa. (Heather) 9) Money - Douglas will take a substantial amount and place it in a good interest bearing instrument for the next several months. (Douglas) 10) Telefilm Canada - The RFP has yet to be released, so this is still pending. (Dave) 11) Future Regional Meetings - Still to be planned (Victoria) 12) Newsletter - Publication schedule by year end, plus new issue for December. (Barry) 13) Financial - Doug will prepare a budget review showing expenses and income to date for next meeting. (Douglas) =================================== Barry Rueger & Victoria Fenner Bagatelle Communications & Management Canada: 155 Scarlet Road, South River, Ontario P0A 1X0 U.S.: 8124 Collins Mountain Road, Wise, Virginia 24293 Phone: 540-328-9624 Fax: 540-328-9625 http://www.community-media.com AOL Instant Messenger: AppalBarry http://www.csirp.org ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: hdoran@synapse.net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1djdN.b1Fg1D Or send an email to: csirp-board-unsubscribe@topica.com AOL users click here. T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================