Geoscience Information Society
Executive Board Meeting

Sunday November 2, 2003
Sheraton Cedar
12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Agenda

Welcome & Introductions

Action Items & Issues

Auditor—Will need to get a new auditor for calendar year 2004?

Proceedings

• Digitizing and Web-posting past issues: A problem, since we never got copyright agreements. Interest?
• Copyright agreements.

Task force to compile a GSIS list of core undergraduate geoscience books—Brief presentation by Hardy and Hanson

Committee review

• Committee charge reviews are ongoing.
• Status of committees

o Public Affairs
o Archives
o Digital Data
o Exhibits
? Do we need a new case?
o Other committee charge issues

Membership

Budget

• Status of unspent funds
• Membership dues

GSIS meeting

• Schedule—Do people want a mirror of the GSA schedule, or a more separate meeting overlapping GSA, or what?
• VP responsibilities—Would this be better as a committee, with a person in charge of (respectively) the forum, logistics/site scheduling, field trip, member communications, exhibits, awards, etc.?

Distinguished Service Award—status?

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lej 10/27/03
last update: 10/297/03