Digital Antiquity-Board of Directors-16 June Conference Call Meeting-draft agenda

DIGITAL ANTIQUITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
16 June 2010 -- 9:00 – 10:30 am (AZ time)

Participants: 

• At SHESC Conference Room, ASU: Adam Brin, Carol Ackerson, Kim Bullerdick, Keith Kintigh, Frank McManamon, Harry Papp
  • SHESC Building,  ASU
• Conference call:  Jeff Altschul, Tim Kohler, Fred Limp
  • Conference line phone #:  866-456-0016
• Videoconference: Dean Snow, Julian Richards
• Unable to attend:  John Howard and Sander van der Leeuw
  

> Welcome and Introductions---15 minutes

• Welcome Adam Brin, Technology Director and Lead Software Engineer
• Review and approve summary of April Board meeting
• Review agenda
  

> Status reports and discussion---up to 10 minutes each

• Staffing:  Search for second Software Engineer position---Frank McManamon
• Partnership development activities---Frank McManamon (summary list circulated to Board for meeting)
• Marketing Committee meeting summary---Jeff Altschul, Kim Bullerdick, Fred Limp (draft summary available for the Board meeting)
• New NSF grant proposal, developing further tools for data analysis using tDAR--Keith Kintigh
• Discussions with ASU Administration on creating cost/price structure for Digital Antiquity and use of tDAR--Frank McManamon
• tDAR (beta) status---Keith Kintigh, Frank McManamon, and Adam Brin

> Discussion of Board and Committees role and function statements and rules of operation-Frank McManamon introduce, general discussion, next steps?-30 minutes

 (draft text and background information circulated prior to meeting)

•  Role and function of Board of Science Advisors

>  Seeking replacement for Board of Director’s position vacated by Jaime Casap--10 minutes

>  Software to improve videoconference technology for future meetings-Keith Kintigh-5 minutes 

> New or other business---10 minutes

> Have a happy summer vacation!  Next Board of Directors meeting conference call will be 15 September.  Meeting after next, 16 November (meeting in Tempe?).

Thanks to Dan Puckett, John Chapman, and Fred Limp at the University of Arkansas and George Otto at the Pennsylvania State University with video-conference and conference call integration .