STC Berkeley Chapter Board Meeting
October 10, 2005
minutes by Ben Lukas, Treasurer
Joe, Jim, Ben, Richard, Jessica at Richard's house

Meeting called to session at 6:35. Ben Lukas to take minutes because Eunice is absent.

Meeting minutes approved as submitted for Sept board meeting.

Robohelp class now has 9-10 signups.
- Ben to send email with names as checks are deposited. Ben has the checks that Joe has picked up at the post office.
- Has Eunice signed up/paid?

Technical Communications Competition
- Now have about 18 entries, about $2100 in revenue
- Teams of judges have recieved most of the entries and can begin judging process

Our meeting place at the Shattuck Hotel is likely to not be available starting Jan 2006. - The hotel is being sold; rumors tell that the hotel will close for about 6 months for renovation around Jan 1.
- Board members need to start looking into alternative sites starting with Feb meeting

Distinguished Chapter Service Award
- David Alt has been nominated
- Jessica to research and fill in paperwork, Joe to review and finalize
- Joe says deadline to send to STC Central is in 2 weeks, so this needs to be done soon

Berkeley Chapter Tina Silverstein would like to start a local SIG on Instructional Design
- Joe has asked her to submit a proposal
- Joe will research rules from STC Central, and review SIG structure/procedures at Silicon Valley Chapter
- Joe will ask Tina to volunteer to chair the SIG if established

Discussion on recruiting student members from UC Berkeley
- It is our understanding that the teachers there do promote STC
- Jessica and Joe to follow up by contacting teachers they know to find way to promote our chapter
- Jim to work on "Chapter Volunteer Brochure" this month; he may include a section directed toward Cal students.
- STC Berkeley can offer students networking opportunities, resume building activities, job referral services

January 2006 meeting will be a party at the Highlands country club. Jean Lundquist (STC Berkelely member) works there, has gotten us a rate of $150 plus $4 per person.
- Decision made to find a party oganizer for the event. Richard to contact Melody Burris to see if she could do this.
- We will also need volunteers for setup and cleanup labor.
- There is a CD player, microphone, speakers in the room. Jim volunteered to organize CD music.
- Joe to send email blast this week to announce the party to our chapter email list.
- Discussion to find good door prizes, such as eletronic gadgets or software. Board members to smooze for these.
- Volunteer recognition will be the "event" part of the party
	
Recharting document discussion
- Richard and Jim have worked out final issues
- Board voted approval of the document
- Jim to email to Joe a copy, as Joe has had to move to a new computer
- Joe to send copy to STC Central

Discussion to move much of documents on chapter intranet to publicly accessable side of the website
- Each chapter officer to suggest documents to move and give proposal to Joe. Joe and officer can decide, then contact Jim for action
- Consensus to keep 6 to 12 months of reports on public site, then purge them.

Jessica has contact list developed for STC Norcal chapter officers. Joe suggested she build a contact list for contacts outside STC, which she said she has as well. Jessican to promote party to the contacts.

Meeting adjoined at 8:15 PM