Philly Communications & Technology
COMS/TECH Meeting Notes (3/20)
--Skype Session with Alfredo --
- Gave background of USSF
- Talked about our role as a local group
- Local working group was given time to ask questions
Thing to focus on as a Working Group:
-Philly USSF Website = Do we need to create this ourselves? Who will create it? Who will be updating it?
-Alex Whiting has contacts that may be interested in getting involved, need to know how they fit in exactly
-Need to let people know what their role is and how they fit in
-We need a solid framework, hard to make decisions with 20 people in the room, we need to take advantage of the opportunity of few people to make decisions to set a solid framework
-Code for Philly (or America) = techies who pick civil projects, spend 4 hours after work to work on projects. Could be very appealing to them -- Alex W. knows these people.
-What is going on with the different local working groups?
-Separate COMS, TECH, fund development, and outreach but also meet together like once a month to work together
-Perhaps have one meeting every other month now where a representative from each committee comes together to talk about their needs and collaborate -- would this be PLOC?
-We could meet more often once it gets closer to USSF
-COMS/TECH should have at least two people responsible for keeping up with the other working groups.
-Strong independent radio network out there that we need to tap into
3 Month Plan -Website -Facebook Page / Twitter Page (Designate a social media team) -Create a Facebook page to converse with one another on what we are doing -Wiki COMS/TECH page = designate who will update and maintain the wiki page -Newsletters -First Press Release about the USSF = this may need to be pushed back depending on when the USSF dates are announced -Trainings (locally and Mayfirst training) = What do we want to learn and who do we know that could teach us these skills? Where would these training take place? -Find trainers and request trainers we do not have
Next Meeting: Thursday April 3rd, 6:30pm - 8pm @ West Kensington Ministry
Tasks to do before next meeting:
-Dig into the USSF website, Wiki page, and read news articles of past USSF
-Designate someone to represent us at the PLOC meeting on April 5th
-Alex will create a Facebook group and send the link to Rachel
-Rachel will send this link out to the COMS/TECH email list