Meeting Notes 2007/05/17
From ESWStanford
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welcome new officers
Solar Workshop update
Whit and Grace talked to Chris (Gil's TA) -->
3 plans
in all cases we would touch on how this gets installed and the whole system
- solar PV water pump demo
- historical PV perspective
- solar thermal
small space
how to deal with this?
- 2 shifts of maybe 10?
funding for lunch
Dick Luthy is willing to pay for lunch but we may want to think of how to justify
need to set up a sign-up sheet
Biodiesel Dinner
May not actually happen, but there are some good ideas here
- we should think about how to make it a unique event
- discussion format may serve a way to distinguish
Funding Report
Grace has $250 from center of environmental science and policy
- Armand paid for dinner
- Grace to pass along check to Heather
- Whit gave receipts to Heather
SOE will meet in 3 weeks
- we've requested $3k from SOE
- $2k from Woods Institute
- $1k from ____
- $500 SCP
- $500 SE Asian
Discretionary funding, why haven't we tried for special fees?
- big hurdle is the hard part, once you are on it
- due tomorrow, maybe
- man power
Stanford Fund would be another good source
- steady source
- we need to do it a quarter ahead
- do you have to use it?
They are working to streamline the system
- it may get more strict
What about Graduate Student Council funds?
- worth looking into
Max to be in charge of this stuff, bit by bit going forward
On-Grids Alternatives
Grid Alternatives is hoping to expand like Habitat for Humanities
- there may be a good opportunity to bring speaker
- getting GSB involved and getting people thinking about scaling it up
Lewis will think about how to organize it
Officer Retreat --> June 2nd or 3rd
agenda ideas...
- the BIG IDEA would be to organize some sort of conference
- scope and topics to be discussed
In fall National ESW Conference might be in Berkeley next year (late September)
- possibility of the conference being canceled (next one in 2008)
- big opportunity to work with the Cal chapter and help organize it
If no official conference we might hold an unofficial conference
- Sophie and Kristof and Jen helped to make the conference
- they might be great resources
Energy Crossroads may be in the winter but it may be in the Spring
- we need to make sure we aren't overlapping but are complimentary
- there is alot of other energy issues
Website discussions
- who we want to serve, what they want to see, what is new to them but interesting
- what technologies and features to build in
- portal site? like boing boing?
Mission Statement development
- we have a stake in the sand but need to work to develop it more
- reflection on the historical successes and opportunities
- comparison to national mission
Website
Spam
is becoming a problem, what are some solutions
- universal password for editing
- individual accounts may give us info but may be overkill
Whit will set up a universal editing password and we'll post the message
- "if you want to edit this site, please email me and we'll send you the password"
Improvements
making it a much bigger part of sustainability at stanford
- how to make it a portal site?
- RSS feeds? news? links?
- putting connections to videos, speakers, more info on our projects
- multimedia would be cool --> content and needs of users should drive
- using UTube
To Be Discussed at Retreat
Projects
Need to discuss
Funding Meeting
To be added...
