Minutes for June 27, 2011
June 27th, 2011IA Institute Board Conference Call
June 27, 2011
Attending
Board: Dan Klyn, Jeff Parks, Dorian Taylor, Bev Corwin (serving as proxy for Andrea Resmini)
Staff: Tim Bruns, Noreen Whysel
Absent: Shari Thurow
Summary: In which the board appoints founder, Bev Corwin as Development Manager to research grants and alliance opportunities, and presents a clear plan of attack for the website redesign.
Meeting called to order at 4:03pm.
Agenda:
Grants:
Vote for IAI to authorize Bev Corwin to work on IAI’s behalf researching grants and opportunities.
VOTE: Motion carried unanimously.
Website:
It is noted that poor planning over the growth of the IA Institute website site and lurking Trojans are bad for IAI’s credibility. Dorian reminded everyone that conceptual integrity is not the same as top-down design solution. He is concerned that we aren’t responding in a panic.
The board discussed the issue and accepted Dorian’s idea to spider the site and create a static version that will disable all php and replace with html pages, thereby closing all back doors while preserving our SEO assets. Then we can work on creating a site that better expresses IAI’s direction as outlined in our Iceland strategy session.
Action/Next steps (per Dorian):
- Content inventory – Jeff to do and send to Dorian
- Review Janette’s report – All, Noreen to post to Basecamp with annotations
- Temporary site: Dorian can spider and pull static content, which would disable all php and replace with html pages.
- Calendar? Dorian recommended a iCal database, but there may also be a Drupal calendar that a volunteer (Amy Francis) set up.
- Dan conference, Shari library, Jeff mentoring, Andrea research/practitioners, Dorian infrastructure
- Jeff and Dorian to set up call later this week.
Jeff will be on vacation July 10-23 and will not be reachable, but will be working on review of our programming and how to present/change/reassign.
Meeting adjourned at 4:38pm.