Present: Chris, Sam, Tanja, Sapi, Theo and Justin via skype

Announcements

• Welcome Sapi

• A second SC meeting will take place on Sept 23.

• We will have a management committee meeting regarding Justin's employment status now that Markus' donation for Justin's pay is finished.

• EC Debt: Last week Randy said he might be willing to sign the financial guarantee for the EC debt. Tanja will provide all the information needed regarding the WCN financial situation to help him with his decision.

• At 3 on Friday we will have a meeting for our tent at World Carfree day

Updates

• WCD Evaluation: Tanja will write something to the lists to initiate a discussion on this subject the next or following week. There will be an internal and external evaluation. The ICC has been disappointed with the poor participation from outside of the ICC, and for this project to continue we need more support, interaction with the member groups and guidelines/concrete objectives how to develop WCD and WCN's & ICC's roles in it. We have spent a month working on this and don't know what the concrete accomplishment has been (Network wise). In addition, no funding has been gained in the process.

• The ICC will send a second WCD Press Release tomorrow. The first Press Release garnered three responses to our office from the media. The wiki has been a success but this week has seen few new submissions.

• WCD has proven to be a great way to engage new members: What should we do when we come into contact with organization that want merchandise or though other contact whether they are interested in becoming a WCN member. If there was little communication, Justin would like us to pass on e-mails to him. If we did correspond we will bring up the subject with us. Justin will send us a sample letter as a template which we could write them to.

• According to Google Analytics the attendance to our website has significantly increased number of people visiting the WCN site. We are also surprisingly seeing visitors from countries as Iran, Libya, Indonesia and other which wasn't seen before. The bounce rate is relatively high though..

• Weekly Reports

Sapi: Found her way around, added events to the wiki, checked grant deadlines, found criteria to apply, dug into applications made already, tried to start writing some of these application, attended the Carbuster magazine meting yesterday, looked into a how-to kit for WCD, prepared for this meeting, looked at methods for future workings

Sam: Carbusters coordination, including: Soliciation of articles, research, facilitation, editors account coordination, website maintenance and distribution. Helped Theo with google analytics. Dealt with Channel M press call, finished EVS final report, checked info and updated wiki for all carfree day events received. Updated WCN website with new banners. Began work on new distribution database design. Exported new sticker pdf's for printers.

Tanja: Wiki promotion, office management; cash box, email correspondence, bank appointment, WCD press strategy talks with Chris and Theo, RC restocking, reviewed Justin's work priorities and position, Justin's salaries, consulted the SC about the financial guarantee for the EC debt, began WCD evaluation, long and hard talks with Sapi to introduce her to the organization/office and to the current situation, called for a management committee meeting, chatted with Simon

Chris: confirmed advertisements, confirmed our tent WCD in Prague, and confirmed education for youth, kept up communications with the Editorial Committee, dealt with the problems of the sticker orders, gave new contacts for the bulletin, updated the wiki, and looked at the editors and orders e-mail. The main work was research for the magazine.

Theo: Google analytics follow-up: comparison of past years and current. Standardizing and editing the wiki, Knoflacher CB Interview preparation, Carbusters preparation: research and solicitation, Press Release, CB book review, resource centre, Facebook administration.

Justin: wasn't able to work the previous week (except on Mon, Tue and Wed) due to travel back to Budapest. Worked with carfree day, worked with press release and quotes, the website updates, had a skype convsersation with Joao, prepared and sent out the bulletin was one of the main things, in touch with people promoting WCD, sent other bulletin thing, conducted an interview with Regional Environment Centre which he will attend in mid-October -interview would be for a European programme for the conference as him as an individual(considered to be done in his own time)

Items

1. Internal project/task priorities (evaluation)
2. Financial priorities
3. Sam's and Sapi's future workings

1. We need to prioritize our office and project related tasks.
Decision: Important issue, but needs more preparations such as detailed job descriptions which are still being worked on. To be continued later.

2. We also need to prioritize our office and project related expenditures.
Decision: Again, important issue, but needs more preparations. To be continued later.

3. Sam's and Sapi's want to continue working at the ICC. Sam is willing to work until the end of October and Sapi from mid October to mid November or even a bit longer.
Decision: We'll ask both Sam and Sapi to submit us a work proposal including their proposed hours and concrete tasks to work on. \\