Secretary’s Note: The E-Board did not meet on Sunday, October 31. They did meet on November 7, but the secretary was not in attendance at this meeting so there are no minutes available.

Columbia University EWB – Executive Board

MEETING AGENDA

November 13, 2010

E-Board Members In attendance: Sonal, Monica, Sarah, Lacey, Kevin, Bethany, Bruce, Lucy

Also in attendance:  Derek (State Representative to EWB-USA), Christine (Ghana), Christina (India)

1. Program Updates:

Ghana-Didn’t win the Stay Classy Award. Ready to submit 521 for the winter trip. Team elections are coming up on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving. Will prepare for Beyond Borders table on Wednesday.

Uganda- MFP and water team underway. On our Beyond Borders table, we will have a model rainwater harvesting system, pieces of the MFP, and a poster. We were wondering how we reserve tickets for our Beyond Borders meeting.

India-Finishing the project close-out application.

2. Conference Updates

A. Derek- We would like to host the EWB-USA Northeast Regional Workshop next year! Application is due soon!

Sarah- We held the conference successfully in 2006.

WHERE could we hold it? WHERE could we house attendees?

We would have to move Beyond Borders to the Spring, or combine it with the Conference. Group decision: No, don’t combine it.

Offering discounted rate to Columbia students.

Consider: Burden on the new E-Board. (Maybe the new E-Board will be SUPER excited to host the conference and would be upset if we didn’t apply for this now.)

B. Sharing what we learned with the Columbia Community. How to?

i. Small portion of general body meeting?

ii. ENTIRE general body meeting.

iii. Derek will arrange a Conference Debriefing among students who attended.

3. Beyond Borders

4. Elections (Next week)

-Technology

-Redefining roles; Who has the file?

-Book space for election pre-meeting, and elections (?)

5. Workshop Idea! (Next week)

-Public Speaking

-Stuff you should know about EWB website

-Stuff we learned at the conference

-Tech Club offering Web Design Workshops. We should go to their workshops!

6. Professional Panel Assembly

-Conference Call tomorrow

-Is there a master plan?

-When is the first date we will need for a review panel to be assembled?

i. Uganda-early December

7. Send out the Newsletter

- Final corrections (quickly look over this together)

- Compiling a list of contacts (this could be useful to have anyway)