Staff Meeting Minutes April 23rd

Staff Meeting April 23rd. 2008 2:30 PM

MINUTES!

Present: Laura, David, Melissa, Candace, Stephen, Leah

Laura: catching up from long period away. Taking home CD's. Library needs refiling. B-A-U.

David: met staff, volunteers, email, marantz, archive discussions, trainings, reporting, prepared show, all-niters, playlists, users, calendar, forms and templates, office maintenance. To do: learn reel to reel, projects: groundwire, Radio Free Palestine, real all signs!

Melissa: electronic log folks – looks good. Switch to PSP. It'll take a few months. Re-did fill in sheets. Re-doing volunteer contacts. Volunteers-in-training. Fill-out the training sheets. Call from Just Us: offer them ads. Sponsoring obay convention. Thursdays from 5 to 7pm: hang out time.

Candace: chatted with Cat, is going to go fishing. Produced PSA with Aaron.

Stephen: B-A-U. Interview room: a band might use it.

Leah: B-A-U. Groundwire: piece with Sonja. Booked fort Natham for Concert on the Other Hill.
HRSDC: waiting. Update permanent card test, eliminate typos. Waiting to hear back from DSU to do our books. Talking to NSPIRG regarding Radical frosh, levy organizations working together. Expressions against Oppressions: social justice, alternative media, music as change.

Funding Drive: to be media sponsor for other groups.
First class bash: rock show at Grawood. Frosh event.

Tonight's General meeting: voting on policy.

A funding meeting will be called to divide up tasks. Funding drive: late october, recruitment time.
Hire a fundraising coordinator this year. Data entry, hire someone to look over it. This year, lots of returned mail because of wrong postal codes. Check pop montreal... last week of september...
train-a-thon early: saturday of orientation.

Train-a-thon: May 20th.
5:30 Leah, 6:00 Melissa, 6:30 David, 7:00 technical training and library

News Collective Meeting Minutes - 2 April 2008

Operation Wake-Up! w/ the CKDU News Collective
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Present: Holly Gordon, Justin Gill, Candace Mooers
Minutes: Candace

Start time: 5:10 pm

UPDATES:
-aired three-part documentary on genocide, produced by CKUT
-Tony finished Ayako piece, airing tomorrow morning
-Denise Holliday produced interviews re: transgendered issues, will air sometime next week
-Erin Ashley hosting on Friday morning (re: free skool?)
-Adeena and Andrew recorded KRS-ONE talk at King's, will edit in coming weeks

GROUNDWIRE:
-Holly volunteers to help coordinate Groundwire production! Yay! More info can be found at members.ckdu.ca

UPCOMING:
-Holly still tracking down graphic novelist at market...
-Holly will follow up w/ Tony Tracy re: municipalities matter in Sydney, Cape Breton. Story will be submitted to Groundwire this month!
-Justin to do demo soon!
-PSA Production Party on Thursday, April 10th, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
-International syndication opportunity with Palestinian Nakba broadcast on May 15th. Contact Gretchen at CKUT to get involved.
-Candace interviewing Candy Palmater on News Collective Monday, April 7th
-Candace interviewing Books Beyond Bars re: book launch on Friday, April 11th
-interview with Geoff Green re: bottled water on April 17th

STORY IDEAS:
-Accidental Death of an Anarchist play w/ Asaf at Bus Stop Theatre on April 11th-12th
-Various media releases received, including: Stars on Ice (ha, ha), Great Train Reverie, National Quality Institute (re: plastic toys), Climate Action Network on the oil sands, etc.

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, April 16th, 5:00 pm