ICC Meeting, September 29, 2005

Present: Steve, Vincent, Tanja, Arie, Gandalf, Steven, Randy

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Tanja will be leaving Nov. 3
• Eliot Fishman (see previous meeting) finally received his packages
• Steve will be coming into the office around 3.30 on Monday and Thursday.
• Arie will have earlier hours on Mondays and Tuesdays and may not be on Skype after 3.
• Lutra will be here one more week to teach the new part-time accountant.
• Lutra will not be here tomorrow
• Steering Committee has elected spokespeople for each continent: Markus Heller (Europe), Giselle Xavier (S. America), Sara Stour (N. America), Wu Yi-Ting (Asia), Randy (non-region specific, general WCN)

AGENDA

1. Graphics Book on CD
   Decided to start sending CDs instead of printing Graphics Book. Add "How-to" for making posters. Gandalf will make CD. Also to place selected images at 72dpi on website.
2. WCN shopping bags
   Randy showed us latest models of WCN shopping bags. Agreed on size.
3. Habitat Jam in December
   Internet-based "meeting" on sustainability. <www.habitatjam.com> They asked us to publicize event. We will. Also asked us if someone can participate in a 30-minute online discussion. Steven says he can do it.
4. Staff photos
   Gandalf will bring digital camera.
5. May 2006 seminar
   Need to discuss whether to hold a pre-AGM in May.
   Need to contact member groups and ask them what kind of training they would like
   Need to discuss location: We said Tabor, but if we change location, we need to explain to funders. Steven will contact CESTA in Tabor to see if space is available.
6. Visegrad project
   Hungarian Young Greens feel they cannot sell CarToons for EUR 1.80. Steven will talk with them about possibilty of getting volunteer translators and reducing print run in order to save costs and lower cover price.
7. Sept. 30 deadlines
   Reminder to update How-to-Manual and set your job description
8. Member groups
   Randy as member liaison is working on improving communication with/among members. Step 1 has been done: getting contact info from members. One-third of members have responded.
9. New computer
   We need to buy at least one new computer. Steve will contact Markus to follow up on his offer to find donations of monitors and/or PCs
10. Youth programme
    We have used this grant (the Youth Exchanges part) for funding biketour in the past. We will try to use another part of the Youth Programme for funding travel to the Bogota conference by creating a Youth Day at the conference.
11. Biketour - Roeland - EVS
    We will apply for an EVS person to do 1/2 biketour and 1/2 other office work. Roeland would like to continue working in WCN office and would like to invest some of his future capital funds into a WCN project. For now, Roeland and Gandalf will work together on biketour.