[Sigmet-officers] SIG/MET Business Meeting Report

[Timothy Bowman]

Greetings,

We had our ASIST Business Meeting with 13 people present (10 in person; 3 via Skype).
We have officer changes to announce:

·         Communications/Webmaster:

o    Phiippe Mongeon – Outgoing Communications/Webmaster

o    Christine Meschede – Incoming Webmaster

o    Isabelle Dorsch – Incoming Communications

·         Membership Chair

o    Kun Lu – Outgoing

o    Carolyn Cramer - Incoming

·         Secretary/Treasurer

o    Zohreh Zahedi – Outgoing

o    Shenmeng Xu - Incoming

·          Chair-elect

o    Philippe Mongeon

·         Outgoing Chair

o    Timothy Bowman

·         Chair

o    Neil Smalheiser

·         SIG/DL – SIG/MET Liaison

o    Edwin Henneken

·         SIG/SM – SIG/MET Liaison (SIG/SM is the newest SIG focusing on social media)

o    Isabell Dorsch and Christine Meshede

Also, Kim Powell, who is our current coordinator of the annual student paper contest, is also looking to move out of the position; we need to recruit someone to take this over.

!!! THANK YOU to all those who served and WELCOME to all those new officers and liaisons!!!!

We have a surplus budget of approximately $10k for this year.
We discussed possible ways to spend this money next year in order to broaden our reach and to generate interest outside of the USA including:

·         Sponsoring a student to attend a workshop/conference/summer school (perhaps in Europe/Asia) in metrics

o    We would pay for the student to attend

o    The student would be required to write a small report on the research being presented and then we would share it with our members and (perhaps) create a blog post.

o    The student would also hand out swag (marketing) materials (see next bullet point) and market the SIG

·         Buy some marketing materials for SIG/MET (like other SIGs have done)

o    T-shirts

o    Screen cleaning material

o    USB drive

o    Information sheet

o    Banner for

o    Etc…

·         Reimburse students their registration fees for the workshop.

·         Hold another metrics conference in relation with other associations

Hold over ideas from previous years:

·         Redesign the SIG/MET logo (we’ve started this process, but never moved it forward – I have a Dropbox folder I can share)

·         Utilize the SIG/MET abstract submission data in some form of contest or data sharing in the SIG/MET workshop

·         Webinars on various aspects of what we do


More soon.

Best,
Tim


-- Timothy D Bowman
Assistant Professor, SIS<http://sis.wayne.edu/>
Wayne State University<http://wayne.edu/>
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