[Rfu-station] Meeting notes 2008-03-04

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

Notes from our WRFU member meeting on March 4, 2008.

Small attendance, but we got some important tasks completed. Please  
note the  CD moving/pizza party this Saturday at noon (and let me  
know if you'll be there).

Introductions
- 6 people present: Andrew (A Critical Ear), Laura (Friction Radio),  
Tom (11th Indian), Dominique (Habari Connections / Rising Star  
Productions), Matt (Nomadic Coral Reef), Nick (Lolaka ya Africa /  
Sabaah Nuur)

Working Group Issues:
No working groups had representatives at the meeting. We did,  
however, cover a number of items that relate to various groups - if  
you're with one of the active groups please note the items that may  
require action or response by your group.

Membership and Training
- Laura (Friction Radio) and Mike (Extensions), both on Monday  
evenings, have lost their group partners and want to merge their  
programming groups. Programming group will need to examine this request.
- Dominique/Habari Connection. Interested in extending their slot or  
getting a second slot during the week.
- Tom/11th Indian. At a recent meeting we approved moving this show  
to Wednesday evenings. However, the show is actually airing 6-7pm,  
not 5-6 as may have been erroneously stated at the meeting, and as is  
listed in our online schedule. The website, and programming group  
records, should me amended to reflect this fact.

Fundraising
- Andrew reports on current financial situation. We have about $5,600  
on hand, at least $900 of which will be required for running expenses  
through to the end of September (when we renew membership dues). We  
will also shortly receive a $2k donation. This means we have in the  
region of $6,700 that can be devoted to our permanent tower solution.
- Tower project: Andrew outlines some information about our options  
(on-site tower v off-site leasing). Andrew will be talking with Andy  
Gunn of Prometheus later this week to get information about costs and  
technical aspects of both options.

Music Library - Several crates of CDs have been transferred to  
cardboard boxes and moved to the south side of the IMC, beside the  
wheelchair access ramp. Several of those present committed to moving  
further crates today and during the week.
- We will have a CD moving party this Saturday at midday. Please take  
part if you can. We'll have pizza and soda to make the process more fun.

Automation
- Problems with access to automation system: Several people are  
having difficulties accessing the automation system remotely (Gary,  
for whom SSH currently isn't working, and Ray who hasn't been given a  
password/login to access the system, Laura hasn't been able to make  
contact with others in automation group). We will get instructions  
(from Dan?) and have Laura/Ray work on building a newly active  
automation group. [If there are others already active with  
automation, let us know so we can put both groups of people in contact]

Tech. We had no updates on the CD repair or the EAS unit recall  
(Charlotte and Patsy had taken responsibility for these, but were not  
at this meeting).
- Andrew has sourced a dot matrix printer (through Freecycle) to  
replace the one we had been using with the EAS unit. It's coming with  
spare ribbons and paper. [Update: this is now in the production room,  
awaiting final connection to the system]

Appointments:
- IMC Steering: Tom Garza and Dominique Jones were appointed as our  
spokes to IMC steering
- Bookkeeping: Laura Wagner has volunteered to take responsibility  
for this: getting the monthly reports from IMC bookkeeping, bringing  
reports to WRFU meetings, interacting with IMC Finance on any  
questions that arise.
- Meeting facilitation/note-taking: Matt Delgado will facilitate our  
next meeting on 18th March, including circulating meeting notices in  
advance and building the agenda.

Progress reports:
Remote Access issue - No progress yet on arranging a meeting between  
IMC-Tech and WRFU on this issue.

New tasks:
- Presentation by Bill Taylor - call for volunteers: Mike Pelfas will  
contact Bill and check on possible dates.

Andrew