SCWP Minutes for 26 December 2007
Originally posted as A/M - SCWP, 26 December 2007 on Google Docs
In Attendance
- Daniel
- Tim
- Jessie
- Yukta
Agenda/Minutes
Meeting start time: 20:25 PST
Report on previous action items - 10 min
- Establish timeline for Water Book (Jessie, Tim)
- 12/27: Learn to use SKYPE; send out email inviting added NGOs to
- 12/29: Start calling NGOs for invite to attend conference/write chapter for book
- Research NGOs (Everyone)
- Keep researching!
- Start background research on water issues in India, and Sadhana Village in particular (Everyone)
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Look into larger organizations that would help with workshops (Everyone)
- Arghyam: Check it out on the database
- Recording equipment for a conference (Daniel)
- Look into sound equipment for the conference hall
- Bios (Everyone that hasn’t done one)
Conference afternoon workshops - 10 min
- Attendance Cap: 200 people?
- Technical (CAWST)
- Who will coordinate this?: Yukta will take on correspondence; Daniel will forward information
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How do we want the afternoon to look?
- Workshops to be run by organizations, legal speaker, NGO activist
- Get an update from Joey as to the speakers/workshops
- Legal (Transparency International? or eLaw.org?)
- Daniel’s aunt has contacts to the later; he’ll contact if he finds them appropriate
- Workshop themes: technical, legal, cultural (UWC, Sadhana, WDA), financial
Calling NGOs - 7 min
- Target max number for database: 65 NGOs
- Tim: email 35 by 5:00pm on 12/26
- 20 calls by everyone to the most legitimate NGOs
- Who is going to split up the list?
- Everyone: add promising NGOs we will recruit most stringently to another database
- Start Tuesday (after newyears)
- What are we going to say?
- Introduction: reference WDA and ask if this is the correct person to speak with
- Explain conference: ask if they would be interested in attending
- Explain water book: ask if they’d like to participate in that as well; deadline for chapter on first weekend in February
- Request what is the best way to stay in contact (phone/email)
- Request contact info: name, phone, email, mailing address, SKYPE
- How to use our Skype account intro (Daniel): skype.com, install
- Logging in: username = whitmandirectaction, passord *see googledocs “online accounts”
- Dial out
- $0.17 a minute, use credit card to buy (or PayPal)
- Leaving our Skype name or conference@
- Potentially using Jajah as well?
- Taking notes during the call and emailing to the studygroup@ (Tim, Jessie, Daniel) , conference@ (Joey, Yukta), or book@ (Tim, Jessie, Daniel)
- Subject line: CALL + name of organization
- See which ones Joe wants to be on
- core@ listserve (Tim, Jessie, Daniel, Joey, Yukta, Joseph)
Grass-roots awareness and advocacy - 12 min
- Create a list for what we need help with: googledoc
- Look at Indian networking websites: face-book, school websites, etc.
- Using Indian nationals such as Nishchint
- What exactly do we need them to do?
- Spread the word about the conference
- Visit NGOs in Bombay area and try to recruit their attendance
- Seeking out partnerships online via Idealist.org and other volunteer sites
- Becoming a Blue Planet Venture
Conference speakers: Joey needs to send in bios before we make a decision - 5 min
- Yea or nay on Mr. Sebastian?
- Medha Patkar?
Adding/ refining the website - 3 min
- Daniel needs help, everyone is developing their individual areas of expertise
Retreat in January - 6 min
- Points of retreat:
- Discussion of next year’s project
- Bonding
- Developing the long-term structure of WDA
- Joe to help organize?
Tags: Google Docs, Idealist.org, Sadhana Village, Skype, United World College