VG Staff

VG Meeting January 30th, 2008

-Dreamweaver: Adam will know by the middle to end of February.
-Donation link: Adam has on his agenda.

Correspondence:
-One woman asking to volunteer. She is a U of M student. Marcia inquired what tasks are priorities for volunteers. (filing)
-One woman asking to submit a bio to VG site. Maria approved—but noted that parameters need to be established in terms of literary substance of work, but broadly.
-Many inquiring about author contact information—refer to publisher.

Links on website
-Many are dead links, need to be updated or eliminated.
-Marcia has culled through a portion of the website. She is halfway through “B.”
-Move to CSS to standardize the appearance of the links throughout the site. Contingent on switch to Dreamweaver.
-Eliminate redundancies under author’s names.
-Marcia will work through A-M author pages; Dhana-Marie will move Z-N.
-Kim will look into old blog as a communication tool.

Masha Questions:
-Filing (Adam)
-Copy code for VG (Kim will e-mail and ask).
-Old blog.
-“To Discuss at Board Meeting” file: looked through papers. Adam unsure what the nature of the documents are.
=“Rejection” pile: protocol for rejection letters discussed. Can be sent out signed in Maria’s name.
-Official Rejection letter: Kim and Dhana-Marie will send those out. (On computer desktop under “rejection_one”)

Names to Add to the Bio list:
ß Sawako Nakayasu
ß Request to add Bio of Hisaye Yamamoto by Jeffrey Esser at Palm Beach Community College in April 2006
ß Allison Hedge Coke
ß Amanda J. Cobb
ß Kaia niambi shivers
ß Kathy Coudle King
ß Mayra L. Dole
ß Teresa Dovalpage
ß Sharon Flake
ß Ruth Knafo Setton, Carmit Delman, Gina Nahai, Rachel Wahba, Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
ß Erna Brodber
ß Sharron M. Proulx
ß Sally Benforado
ß Nathalie Handal
ß Troy Buckner
ß Martha Southgate
ß Barbara Hill Hudson
ß TJ Baker
ß J.A. Marzán
ß Sonia Rivera-Valdés

Lauren:
=School Craft Pile (Adam will ask)
-Dhana-Marie and Kim will organize classroom presentations
-Send out e-mail to faculty and TAs
-Will meet to plan presentation on February 6th 12:15pm
-Still need to go through and organize the “evil” pile.
-Divided up “edited to be coded” between A, M, D-M, K
-Store e-mail in electronic filing system. Back up old, relevant e-mails to a CD-ROM.

Adam:
ß Dreamweaver switch
ß Donate button
ß Locating Interviews
ß Edited-to-be-coded assignment
ß Video for site
ß Lauren and Masha files
ß Schedule: Fridays full day

Marcia:
ß E-mail
ß Voicemail
ß Cleaning up author bios A-M
ß Coded-to-be-posted
ß Edited-to-be-coded
ß Schedule: T, W, Th 3-1/2 hours per day

Dhana-Marie:
ß Transcription
ß Flier
ß Rejection Letters
ß VG class visits
ß Edited-to-be-coded
ß Clean up author bios Z-N
ß Schedule: Thursday 5 hours, Saturday 5 hours

Kim:
ß Blog/WIKI
ß Edited-to-be-coded
ß VG class visits
ß E-mail Masha regarding VG copy code, blog
ß Rejection letters
ß Dreamweaver
ß MN Futures symposium attend on Feb 11th
ß Web 2.0 initiatives
ß Schedule: Wed 3 hours, Fridays 5 hours