Originally posted as A/M - SCWP, 12 December 2007 on Google Docs

In attendence:

• Yukta
• Jessie
• Tim
• Daniel

Agenda/ Minutes:

Bookkeeping

• facilitator?
• note taker?

Water Book - questions to answer:

• Who’s taking the lead?
  • Jessie and Tim
• How many NGOs do we want?
  • Roughly ten?
• How long is the book going to be?
  • Shoot for 3-5 pages per NGO
  • One hundred pages
• What type of stories do we want? Format
  • Template to work off of? Standardized with questions, but as loose as possible
    • What has worked for them? What has not worked for them?
    • History of the NGO
  • If the NGO doesn’t have the resources
• How is it going to be published?
  • Lulu.com if it is cheap enough
  • Using Whitman resources
• Where are we going to send it?
  • Primary purpose is to educated NGOs on what others are going
  • Bring other copies to India as a secondary to hand out to government officials, etc.
• How are we going to translate it?
  • Yukta isn’t that worried about getting it translated; we probably only need to think about Hindi
• How does Daniel fit in?
  • ?

Study Group

• Any news?
  • UWC is synthesizing the survey to one page
  • Probably going to be implemented in January
  • Figuring out the focus groups after that
• plans for over winter break
  • start background research, knowledge share, synthesize for website?
• Jessie and Tim will be taking over after Winter Break

Conference

• Who’s taking the lead?
  • Yukta and Joey still
• Confirm speakers
  • Joey talking to speakers during break and drafting titles for presentations
  • Working on developing the topics for presentations
  • Need bios for speakers
• Conference hall
  • Holds 900 people
• Discuss afternoon workshops
  • Technical (CAWST)
  • Legal
  • Financial
  • Cultural (WDA, Sadhana, UWC)
• Lunch catered?
  • Networking sessions, freeform
• Logistics
  • Recording/ videotaping?
  • conference packets
    • list of all attendees w/ contact info
  • How are travel scholarships going to be done?

General

• describe NGO list
• establish communication channels for over winter break

Action items

• Establish timeline for Water Book (Jessie, Tim)
• Research NGOs (Everyone)
• Start background research on water issues in India, and Sadhana Village in particular (Everyone)
• Start contacting NGOs
• Look into larger organizations that would help with workshops (Everyone)
• Recording equipment for a conference (Daniel)
• Bios (Everyone that hasn’t done one)

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