FITS Excom Conference Call 2/09/17 12:00pm-Central
Attendees:
Julie DeFilippi Simpson
Nick Sievert
Jeff Ojala
Rebecca Krogman
Andy Loftus
Jodi Whittier
Jeff Kopaska
Discussion:
- MARIS Website
- Nick sent out an email to Jeff outlining an agreement to pay $500 for migrating the FAMS website upon completion.
- Website
- Rebecca no new news
- Fits goals
- Julie has been on the search for a good site
- Best option BoardHost
- Less “forum-y” than other options
- Better option may be to do this on our website
- Rebecca says ncd may have found a good option
- Consensus is that it makes sense to have on our website
- Drawback- putting effort on website when we are planning to migrate soon
- Benefits to hosting on a forum is logon information is not required
- Decision is that Julie will post on either forumotion or boardhost and set up a discussion which doesn’t require users to login.
- Best option BoardHost
- Tampa Symposium (Julie)
- Have around 10 speakers already lined up
- Fisheries Data Management Skills and Techniques (Symposium Title)
- Continuing Education
- Need to talk with Jessica and figure out what the plan is (Jeff K)
- Midyear Governing Board Meeting-fdx
- No midyear report this year
- In its place mention important things we are working on
- Symposium, goals, website-julie
- Not ready for bringimg up fdx-julie
- Jeff K- Feds don’t have the resources they used to, but need is still there
- Many states are in real trouble, gone backwards 20 years
- Andy- Need resources, been a struggle and likely to get worse, but there still will be money there through external agreements
- Andy- Opportunities exist to get Federal grants to come through FITS or through the parent society directly. There are pros and cons to doing each.
- Lower overhead doing FITS and also more control, less hassle of trying to coordinate with parent society-andy
- Parent society offers more leverage-andy
- Could request for AFS staff assistance to work with us for identifying and pursuing federal grants-Andy
- Julie- Propose this as a statement of need from our members as Jeff K mentioned
- Julie-Will put together a statement and then ask for feedback from us.
- Software Review (Julie)
- One of the goals was to archive all our software from the website.
- Has not been done yet, one member asked to have his old software taken down, don’t want to do so until we get it archived.
- He also has new software he wants reviewed but Gary hasn’t been able to find anyone to review the software.
- We can help identify people to test the software
- Jeff O may know salmonid people who would be willing to test out the software.
- Coordinate with Gary once we are able to find some people who were reviewers
- We have been sitting on this a long time, would be nice to get it taken care of for Glenn.
- Jeff K- Feds don’t have the resources they used to, but need is still there
- Julie has been on the search for a good site
