Minutes of the IEEE Consultants Network Kansas City Section
2/6/2001
Minutes
of the last meeting were approved.
Old Business:
The group resolved to pursue a unique domain name
for the IEEE Consultants Network in Kansas City. Fred agreed to verify that the four domain names on the short
list were still available for registration.
Fred also agreed to investigate the issues associated with hosting a web
site with its own domain name. The
group agreed that there would be a benefit to establishing a unique web
presence that we could market and use to establish cross-links with our own
sites and related sites.
The candidate domain names are as follows:
1)
Consultants-IEEE-KC.org
2)
KC-Consultants-IEEE.org
3)
Consultants-Network-IEEE.org
4)
KC-IEEE-Consulting.org
New Business:
The group discussed the difficulty of maintaining a
checking account with no service charge.
Following the discussion, the group moved to move its account to a IEEE
consolidated checking account. The
motion carried.
The group developed a tentative calendar of events
for 2001:
1)
April
4, 2001 - Data Backup (Speaker
responsibility - Dale Rummer)
2)
June
6, 2001 - Services Marketing (Speaker
responsibility - **)
3)
September
5, 2001 Contracts (Speaker
responsibility - **)
4)
Off
Months Group Mentoring (First
volunteer Ted Atchinson - tentatively May 9)
The group also voted to conduct the majority (if not
all) of these events as luncheon events on the first Wednesday of the
month. The April, June and September
meetings will be open to all members of the local chapter, and possibly to
members of other organizations as well.
The group mentoring sessions will be solely for members of the
Consultants Network and will focus primarily on services marketing. ** Note:
Ted Atchinson has volunteered to help look for speakers for these topics
although we all should try to help out in this area.
Don expressed his interest in conducting joint
meetings with other organizations so that we can attract a larger audience
out of respect for our outside speakers.
He offered to share our meeting schedule with Howard Eichenwald of the
ICCA.
The group nominated and elected officers for
2001. The officers for 2001 are as
follows:
1)
Chair
Don Wolf
2)
Vice
Chair/Treasurer Ted Atchinson
3)
Secretary
Fred Granville