Minutes for October 17, 2011
Board of Directors Meeting
The Information Architecture Institute
Monday, October 17, 2011
10pm CEST, 9pm GMT, 4pm ET, 3pm CST, 1pm PST
Attending: Andrea, Shari, Laura, Chris, Dorian, Noreen, Tim
Not Attending: Jeff Parks, Dan Klyn
Agenda:
* Grants status update
* World IA Day status update
* Website status update
* Others
Grants status update
* Andrea summarized grant program for new board members and pending changes to program.
* Jason Hobbs agreed to be President of Grant Committee.
* Jason’s first task is a proposal for how to make the grant program more visible, relevant.
* Andrea will forward proposal to Noreen, keep her in loop.
World IA Day status update
* Arun Martin, Bangalore, Jessica asked Noreen to send invitation to him to pass on to potential coordinators. Done.
* Eric Scheid in Australia has not responded.
* No reply from Canada (Matthew Milan and Brian Fisher at Simon Frasier). Dorian spoke to someone at Simon Frasier and can follow up with Brian since he has been in touch with him before.
* Jorge confirmed for Panama.
* Laura asked how she can take part. Andrea clarifies that the board is not involved, it is a volunteer-led initiative.
Website status update
* Jeff was mediating progress of content inventory, and volunteered to do card sort testing. Since he is on leave there is no progress.
* Dorian is doing a 2Up on site next.
* Dorian requested notes from Memberclicks, wishlist, problems, management issues, and would like us to forward any concrete complaints about the member database. Basecamp writeboard or Google doc.
* Dorian in NYC 20th to 23rd and will meet up with Noreen.
* Shari distributed screenshots of IAI website prototype. Tested and ready to use if we want to get a team of volunteers together. Easy to change. We can decide how to integrate it when we have completed the content inventory and card sort.
Other business
Shari would like to add Wikipedia to next week’s agenda.