Present: Adam, Kristoff, Jamie, Joy, Andrew, Mary.

• Cool tools days re-cap: We still need to put a write up on the Wiki. Discussion also turned to re-organizing the wiki to better suit our long-term needs of transferring information from one exec group to the next.
• Next cool tools day set for November 8 from 12 noon to 1PM in the Terrace Lab. We’ll serve timbits (Jamie) and coffee (Adam). We’ll also live blog the re-cap (Adam).
• Trivia Night: still need a location. Tossing around some off campus ideas. May mean that event is more of a social gathering than fundraiser if we need to slip in to an existing trivia night.
• RFID brown bag: Andrew to email David re: his contact.
• Conferences: Andrew attended part of Access 2011. He will email link with videos of presentation to ASIS&T listserv. Also, on Nov 12 there is a conference in Washington that he will send more info about. THAT Camps?
• Next meeting: Tentatively set for second week of school in January. Will email when date is closer to pin down time. Need to have it confirmed before January cohort orientation.
• End of meeting.

Sorry for the delay in posting these, and thanks for coming out!

September 21, 2011
ASIS&T@UBC
Trail meeting room
Noon to 1pm

Present: Andrew, Jamie, Adam, Kristoff, Michelle, Joy, Trevor, Jonathan, Kerry, and Alex, Heather O’Brien (faculty rep),

1. Introduction of ASIS&T and current executive (Andrew, Jamie, Justin, Adam)

2. General plan for events this year.

• Cool Tool days twice a semester
• Speakers etc.
• Trivia Night with LWOB
• Research Day in March 2012 (ASIS&T group will offer to volunteer)

3. Policies and procedures of ASIS&T@UBC chapter.

4. Explanation of open Vice-Chair role and call for nominations. Kristoff self-nominated, seconded by Andrew, and voted in unanimously.

5. Next event: Cool Tool day on October 4th in Terrace Lab from noon to 1pm. Joy will handle coffee, Michelle will get snacks, and Trevor will be around to help with set up etc.

6. Next meeting: October 26th at noon in the Trail Room.

-end of meeting-

We had our first ASIS&T@UBC meeting of 2011 on Tuesday and thanks to everyone who came out. The minutes from the meeting have gone up on our Minutes page, so if you missed the meeting (like I did, unfortunately) you can take a look at what the group discussed.

The major points to note were:

1. the fundraising (which is part of our mandate) has been shifted from the TShirt extravaganza to exploring other options (in other words, the excitement wasn’t there but we still need to find a way to pay for our events – suggestions are welcome)
2. Cool Tools day is coming up next week
3. Research Day is also approaching, so get your papers presentable and submit them by January 24th
4. we’re going to be bringing in Rex Turgano, founder of thegreenpages.ca for an informal talk in February (space will be limited; we’ll let you know when it’ll be as soon as it’s all confirmed)

Our next meeting is Tuesday February 2, 2011 12:30-1:30 in the Trail Room, but before that we hope to see you at Cool Tools Day. I suppose it’s possible we’ll see you on the intertubes as well. We’re here a lot.

And what better way to celebrate time off from classes than by updating the blog? A recap of our November Cool Tools Day has finally gone live, and if you check the Minutes page you’ll see they’re now up to date.

(Incidentally, if you want to see the minutes of the Executive meetings, you can IF you’re a member. Let us know and we can get you all the sekrit documents about our organization your heart could desire. Or you could just search the WikiLeaks cables. I’m sure we’re in there somewhere.)

Speaking of WikiLeaks, if you’re interested in some links to good writeups on the ongoing drip, or any other information technology issues that have been catching our webmaster’s eye, you could do worse than checking out our ASIS&T@UBC linkblog or following us on Twitter @asistubc. Consider it an Xmas present to him.

The minutes for the first executive meeting of the year have now been posted. You can find them in the Meeting Minutes section of the About page of this blog, or you can click here.