Outreach Meeting Minutes

Spring 2009 Minutes

Chi-Chi Lin:
This week:

contacted Leo, website translator in the Honduras to check on progress (haven't started, wants to work closely with me)
created site map, with personal notes and annotations on what can be fixed
restated goal of wiki with Monroe (site should act like Wikipedia, not a website with just 1 set of links))
emailed Monroe, Nicole, and Scott about:

Min
Last Week

Contact publication people on Brandon's contact list
Got reply from Cornell Daily Sun; they are interested in putting up an article about AguaClara
Contact Ithkid about potential presentation in April (yet to decide date)
Contact Jill from SWE about presentation during candidates weekend.

This Week

Trang
Last Week

Compiled a list of all members since 2005
Made a list of potential members- Look through Oxfam, Action Aid, Care, US Aid websites to see if they are giving out money
Look for ways to create mass email lists. Talked with Monroe and Outreach team during meeting about this
Worked on TeachAward but there was issue. Sent file back to Joe to have it edit.

This Week

Invite alumni into Google group using their Cornell emails
Create a list-serve for potential members? (not sure which service to use yet CIT, Facebook, etc...?)
Look for more information on Oxfam, Action Aid, Care, US Aid websites
Monroe suggested to contact Sarah Long for more information about Care
If recieve TechAward, will finish it off

Scott

Accomplishments

Set up a table at the Bio-Expo that displayed a AguaClara general poster, the demo plant, and me and Trang talking about AguaClara; made a good student contact named Anushree Ray from Cornell Health International, and she has invited me and Nicole to speak for ASHOKA on Saturday.
I sent a press release to NPR about AguaClara and the four communities' plant and have had no response.
looked into how Monroe's graduate students are funded and where we can obtain information on exactly how much each water plant previously designed by AguaClara cost
attended a AguaClara form; we discussed some ideas on how to organize and fun the Outreach Team, being that is a now thing for us all. I think that I would like to change the way we operate on a weekly basis. I think the entire group will not meet weekly, only Working Groups will meet on a weekly basis separately. Starting next week each person will enter their own meeting minutes on the wiki "child" page for that week by Thursday at noon. We will work out the details at the Tuesday meeting.

Goals

Keep working on determining what the most effective way will be for the Outreach Team to be organized.
Positively encourage teammates to complete tasks to the best of their ability.
Complete the Midterm Wiki Report.