Crossroads of America Chapter
April 23, 2002 4:00 5:00 PM EST Conference Call
Core Team Meeting Minutes
Next Call: Tuesday, May 7, 4pm 5 pm EST
(Reminder, we are on the same time)
Attendees:
Bill Austin, Dan Surber, Tom Kennedy, Tom Rarick, Joe Rayes, Barbara Falls
Meeting Details:
Charter Application
Effort to complete application is minimal. Major effort will be to verify membership list, hold officer elections, and ratify bylaws. That information will be attached to the application.
Elections
Shortly after membership list is verified by INCOSE central, an email campaign will be launched to elect officers and ratify bylaws.
The Election Advisory Board (Suzanne Short, Greg Bresnehan, Bill Schindel) plan to submit a nomination proposal to elect the existing interim officers.
· Bill Austin will follow up with the EAB on the nomination proposal.
Membership Status
Dan Surber provided the following statistics:
19 members in good standing and affiliated
23 applying or transferring affiliation
6 in question as to membership status
Dan has submitted to INOSE central a request to verify the above membership numbers, but has not received a response.
Dan suggests pursuing academic institution chapter membership after being chartered.
After our chapter is chartered, we have an offer from Dr. Klod Kokini, Assistant Dean, Schools of Engineering, Purdue U. to make a presentation at Purdue.
· Barb Falls to follow up with Shirley Bishop for membership status.
Programs
June 17 21 is identified as the target week for the next round of chapter meetings. Dan Surber has volunteered to be the program speaker, topic for interactive discussion what is SE, who does SE? Dan and the programs chairs plan to meet and discuss in depth.
June chapter meetings program and speaker was voted on and approved unanimously.
Regional coordinators for the June meetings are:
Tom Rarick Chicago
Dan Surber Indianapolis
Barb Falls Terre Haute.
Communications Status
Lauren Toffolos resignation from the Communications group was acknowledged. Joe Rayes was nominated and accepted to Communications Co-Chair
Communications Proposals
Joe Rayes made the following proposals:
Newsletter published quarterly to membership
SIG Status Report published in newsletter
Student involvement in obtaining member bio information for posting on the web site.
· Joe Rayes is to draft a communications white paper and forward to Tom Kennedy for review.
Web Site
Joe Rayes, webmaster, provided web site details:
Web site updates occur weekly on Friday afternoon
Webmaster and Info email addresses accessed from our site email is currently received by Joe Rayes
Once chapter is chartered, there are additional email addresses available.
150Mb of space is available for our web site content.
· Joe Rayes will update slides posted on website for Tom Rarick.
IEEE Presentation
Dan Surber will be making an interactive presentation to the CIS-IEEE group at the University Place Conference Center of IUPUI on Thursday, April 25. Dinner buffet begins at 6 and presentation will begin at 7pm
ITEC Expo Presentation
Our chapter is participating in the ITEC Expo, June 6-7, 2002. We will be hosting on June 6, 2:30 4:00pm, a panel discussion with a topic to be determined. Panel consists of Jeff Harper, Bill Schindel, and possibly one other individual who can relate well with IT folks.
If you have suggestions for a
third panel member, please send that information to Joe Rayes at rayes@ictt.com.