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IEEE Central Sub section Committee Meeting
29 May 2006
Present:
Murray Milner
Peter Komisarczuk
Duncan Hall
Richard Harris
Keith Morris
Mansoor Shafi
Apologies
Bob Hodgson
Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Welcome
- After some difficulty with the audio conference, the meeting got under way about 10 minutes late
- Peter was thanked for the provision of conference bridge access
Minutes of the last meeting
- The minutes are on the IEEE website
- The minutes were approved without comment
Finance Update
- Completed forms with Duncan
- There was some discussion of the name which the sub section should use – Duncan will follow the IEEE policy
- Money has been offered by IEEE South - $2000
- AP: Duncan to follow up with both IEEE South and North sections to clarify funding arrangements.
Membership
- Registration of committee members
o AP: Keith to provide web link to Registration of committee members
o AP: Murray to get registration complete
- Promotion of membership
o AP: Bob/Richard to determine discount status for student members at Massey
o AP: Duncan to follow up computer society members who may not be full IEEE members
o AP: Murray to follow up with IPENZ and IET re joint promotion for members in the central regions
General Meetings
- Professor Gavan Distinguished Lecture Tour presentation in Palmerston North on Wednesday 7 June
o Resolution: Approved that NZD150 be provided to sponsor this lecture
- Bill Ackerman's Distinguished Lecture series in Wellington on 20 June, sponsored by EEA and supported by IEEE Central sub section
o It is understood that EEA is funding this lecture, which is to be held at Transpower Headquarters on The Terrace.
- AP: Keith to publish publicity re these two events on the Website
- Careers evening proposed for August
o Hold at Massey (WN) with video link to Massey (PN) with joint participation with IET and IPENZ
- Potential to join with NZ Computer Society in September for their Careers event
- Duncan Hall is working on a possible presentation on Nanotechnology
- AP: All committee members to work on future IEEE Central events, especially for something suitable for July.
Website and Publicity
- The website has undergone a re-branding exercise promoted by IEEE HQ
o Four pages now under new template
- It was agreed that we should promote IEEE related events on a special Events page on the website
o AP: Keith to prepare the Events page
o AP: Mansoor to prepare a note on ICC06
o AP: Duncan to prepare some material on Computer Society events
o AP: Murray/ Richard to find someone to prepare a note on the EEA conference
- AP: Keith to explore the E-notices capability offered by IEEE
o Hopefully this will help deliver a member email list.
Other business
- AP: Murray to issue a Committee Contact list
Next Meeting
- It was agreed that Committee meetings should be held monthly on the last Monday of each month
- The next meeting will be held on 26 June at 4:30-5:30pm
- This time will be used assuming that Subhas does not have a long term commitment to lectures at this time