Minutes for March 7, 2011
Board of Directors Meeting
The Information Architecture Institute
Monday, March 7, 2011
10pm CEST, 9pm GMT, 4pm ET, 3pm CST, 1pm PST
Attendees:
Board: Dan Klyn, Shari Thurow, Dorian Taylor, Andrea Resmini
Staff: Noreen Whyse, Tim Bruns
* Annual Members Meeting
-Dorian has completed t-shirt and willl complete the post-card designs this week. Board needs to approve both by Sunday March 13th, 2011 by noon local time British Columbia.
-Dan will be taking post-card requests to printer in Denver.
-Noreen will send out update RSVP with date change to Thursday and post the AGM announcement to Calendar and home page feature.
* Committee Members for IDEA and Library
- IDEA conference and Library requires a board position. Shari will be leading the Library position. Abby Covert will be volunteering her time to lead the IDEA Conference and we will be holding an election in the Fall for this position, officially.
* Event Sponsorship
-We have approved all three conferences for the IAI for sponsorship Italian, Polish, and German conferences. Dan will start to look at the slides and what we want to promote at these conferences. $1000 for each of these conferences was voted on and agreed to by the Board during this call.
- Noreen is waiting on the discount code for the Enterprise Search Summit prior to promoting. She will Follow up with Enterprise Search Summit and VIEW Conference and post/announce when contracts are finalized.
* IA Summit Logistics
-When are we arriving for the Summit?
Dorian – Wednesday
Dan – Wednesday
Noreen – Wednesday
Andrea – Saturday
Jeff – Tuesday
Tim – Thursday (tentative)
-Thursday AGM then Karaoke at the same venue for the IA Summit.
-Board members will be meeting at noon in the conference hotel lobby to discuss the AGM in advance of the meeting.
* General Administrative Tasks
-Noreen will post mentoring brochure and IA Institute onesheet to basecamp
-Noreen will draft the March newsletter and will name a guest director to craft the intro.