AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

August 14, 2020

Attendees: Rebecca Krogman, Paul Venturelli, Tiffany Hopper, Kayla Key

• Virtual AFS meeting
  • Big Data symposium (Dan via email)
    • ExCom is discussing the symposium packages
      • Live or not live
    • CEC workshop (Paul)
      • No report on workshops
      • Action item: Paul to send email to check on status of CE.
    • FITS annual business meeting (Paul)
      • Requesting day & time and use AFS meeting platform
        • Times requested by preference:
          • Thursday Sept 17^th 4-5pm, 3-4pm, or Tuesday Sept 15^th 4-5pm
        • Expected attendance 25
        • Announcement email
        • Follow-up email to include Report and Agenda
      • 1 hour
      • Discussion based
      • Breakout rooms are available
      • Topics:
        • CFTC update
        • Revenue generation
          • CFTC
        • How FITS can use income to better serve members?
        • Recruiting students and young professionals
          • Work with Student and Early Career Professionals section
            • Reaching new graduate students with CFTC
          • Meaningful participation
          • Travel awards
        • Member feedback
      • Action Item: Paul to draft Business meeting agenda before next ExCom meeting
    • “Shark Tank” prize (Paul)
      • Action Item: Paul to email for more information
    • SecTreas Report due 31 August (Kayla and Paul)
      • Action Item: Kayla to submit before August 31^st
    • CFTC online (Rebecca)
      • FITS role to monetize and manage
      • We would receive portion of subscription profits
      • Grant is working on small issues of linking pages, category listing, and image display
      • Steve concerns
        • Hosting live stream session to show distributors about the new CFTC platform (easily done) or a promo video (but who would produce this video).
        • Harmonize CFTC with AFS organization membership program to make sure they are not competing against each other but working together.
          • Organizational memberships and CFTC subscription
            • AFS wants to offer org. membership listing discounts on CFTC
          • AFS is shouldering development costs right now
          • FITS could pay for continued support
          • How to balance these systems?
            • S2 member manage system automatically
            • They cover support and we eat the cost of support anything over they pay to us?
            • Open discussion
          • By-law amendment to 4-year election cycle (Paul)
            • Action Item: Paul to posted President message to site/newsletter
          • Other business
            • Travel award delayed until Fall (Paul)
            • FITS articles in Fisheries (Sarah)
              • Third article to be published soon
              • Fourth article is in the works: summary of last years symposium and ideas generated
              • Sarah is stepping down as Communications Coordinator for FITS
            • Call for Rep on the Resource Policy Committee (to replace Jodi Whittier) (Paul)
            • Call for Electronic Service Advisory Board (ESAB) section representative on behalf of FITS
            • Call for Communications Coordinator for FITS
            • Action Item: Paul to posted calls for these three positions to site/newsletter

Next Meeting is September 11^th