6:15 Secretary starts meeting and notes attendees
6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order at 6:35pm
6:35 Approval of Past Minutes and status of previous action items
Adoption of Agenda
6:40 Chair’s Report: Elections status—John sent out the e-mail, will re-send. Nominations came in for Chair and Treasurer
6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report: Not present
6:50 Treasurer’s Report: Balance: $159,415. From SUSTECH 2022 we received $1,749 as part of the surplus. Ideally we’d have a budget approved in November for 2023.
6:55 Secretary’s Report: Summer Social was a success; 25 people attended the Portland Pickles Game. Awards ceremony? ACTION: Dan to schedule. Do it in early December, maybe start at 6:30pm, maybe the 13th. Maybe do it as a less formal than a sit down, at a brewpub. Perhaps do a Saturday, but maybe on the 3rd or the 10th earlier in the day, like 4pm. Chapter Chairs meeting (typically in February)?
7:00 Chapter Reports (5 minutes Each)
WIE: Not present
Solid State Circuits: Richard Dorrance: Social tomorrow, lecturer this Friday. They are on vTools. Another speaker scheduled in October.
Signal Processing Society:
Nanotech: Ed Perkins:
Professional Activities:
Computer Society: Sohrab: Had a presentation last month on hardware security. Next meeting in October.
PES: Not present.
RAS: Ed Epp: Working with adults with ROSS(?) kits. Working with Thomas Coughlin
Ed also gave an update on SUSTECH 2023: There are monthly SUSTalks post-conference. They need local volunteers.
Comsoc:
Student Activities:
Webmaster: Daniel Engel: Web site is stable.
7:50 New Business: ACTION: John to provide Dan with info on how to set up an IEEE hosted dropbox file storage. See screenshot below.
7:55 Reading of Action Items
7:58 Next Meeting October 11th In person only. ACTION: John will make a reservation at a local restaurant before September 19th. Chapter Chairs (or their designee) and EXCOMM members.
Items to discuss at the meeting (John will be the moderator):
- Possibly formulate a vision
- Issues with the same officers for years in a given chapter—we need “fresh blood”
- Finding local speakers to speak at chapter meetings
- Help with specific challenges from chapters
- Perhaps find a way to reward the seasoned volunteers—training and development maybe?
- What can be accomplished in the short term? Longer term?
8:00 Adjourn: Adjourned at 7:57pm