Minutes for May 9, 2011
IA Institute Board Conference Call
May 9, 2011
Attendees:
Board: Dorian Taylor, Andrea Resmini, Jeff Parks, Dan Klyn
Staff: Noreen Whysel, Tim Bruns
Absent: Shari Thurow
Meeting called to order at 4:00pm.
Agenda:
Administrative matters to discuss
Noreen noted there was an inquiry about the term “architect” from an angry email to info account. This is a perennial complaint. A recent Archinect website thread contained thoughtful comments from registered architects. Wurman has language on what he means by “architect”. Generally our response is to point out that the law in most cases regulates the use of the term Architect by those who offer building architecture services. However the law may vary in each jurisdiction, so it is prudent to check.
Action: Dan will follow up with our lawyer.
Setting milestones and responsibilities for board members / volunteers as necessary
Website:
Dorian: Scraped web pages and content components. Plotting relationship between all pages and solution for repeat components.
Andrea: need to fix a few things in the library before we can go to Drupal.
IDEA:
Need content and plan and schedule IA, software, code.
Jeff raised the need for a lead PR person. Andrea can continue to post messages as president but we need someone to draft PR items.
Keep idea of trying seed the event all over the world and find people who can do local talks.
Action: Dan will ask Abby to join next week’s conference call.
Action: Andrea will contact a friend who is a graphic novelist, optioned for a movie. He does workshops to teach storytelling and cartooning. Could be a prospective IDEA speaker. Andrea thinks he is in France.
IA Summit:
Andrea will talk to Dick and will report to board if there is any news.
Mentor/Apprentice:
Jeff has been mapping it out.
Dorian doing personas for the website. Starting with who would be an IAI volunteer. Plans to deliver this week.
Request for sponsorships:
Content Strategy Forum 2011. Look for an announcement.
Italian IA Summit: good, positive feedback; mentioned IAI a number of times, Andrea was introduced as president of IAI. Davide spoke about the Translation initiative.
Meeting adjourned at 4:41pm