Meeting Minutes for 6/14/2007

The minutes are a little spare for our first meeting, which was more of an informal touching-base session. Nevertheless, for posterity, here they are.

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Jersey City DFA Agenda and Minutes

Date: 6/14/2007
Location: Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory
Attendees:
Cheryl
Christian
Dale
Gina
Leila
Steve - Committeeman, Hamilton Park
Tavie

Meeting called to order at: ~7:00 pm

1) Agenda items:
a) Location principles: Near public transit, good parking
b) Common goals: transparency, openness (No moderators for email – i.e. anyone can email a member of the group at any time; public access to post blogs and calendar items for events without a go-between)
c) Set up complimentary Yahoo Group
d) Set up blog (Dale brought up it should contain whole name “JerseyCityDFA”)
e) Steve brought up the idea of tables at free events/public spaces such as Farmer’s Market at Hamilton Park.
f) Dale asked for volunteers to be Group Organizers: Gina, Leila and Christian volunteered to help Dale, who is started the group.

2) Tabled: N/A

3) Committee reports: N/A


4) Summary of resolutions and assignments:
a) Gina/Tavie set up blog
b) Dale set up Yahoogroup
c) Tavie will donate Flickr space for photos and webspace at her personal web domain to host files and images

5) Business to carry over to next meeting:
a) Set up regular monthly meeting time


End time: ~8:00 PM

(Recorded by Christian, Gina and Tavie; transcribed by Tavie)