AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes February 18, 2022
Present: Chelsea Myles-McBurney, Paul Venturelli, Tiffany Hopper
Old Business
Mail poet:
- Impact of the list cleanup actions
- Chelsea sent email for “are you still interested in”
- Need to investigate why messages are going into spam
- Chelsea ran spam test Results: 6.7/10
- Revisit subject lines in emails to see if that helps spam issue
- Created Segment list to filter inactive members
- No luck on R code yet
- Revisiting whether we need to upgrade the account yet
- Look into premium and what it means to “Send emails via web host or third-party service”
- $149 a year for premium
Potential section rebranding?
- Do we want to pursue this?
- Paul, Chelsea, and Tiffany are interested in changing
- Think it would benefit the Section
- What are required steps?
- We need to change the bylaws (What are the steps for this)
- ACTION ITEM (Tiffany): Reach out to Doug to see what steps are needed for this change
- Timeline?
- Touch on next meeting
Partnership travel award (Tiffany)
- New application deadline
- February 28th is the deadline
- Page on the website
- ACTION ITEM: Add blurb to remind people about the application deadline (Link below)
https://units.fisheries.org/fits/awards-and-recognition/partnership-travel-award/
Membership lottery (Tiffany)
- Membership lottery was completed, and tiffany picked winners
- Winners were notified in February
- Action Item: Kayla to make post on Website
AFS Spokane
- Continuing Ed course
- Course was successfully submitted
- Agenda from previous course has been approved by Keith
- All CV’s need to be submitted to AFS
- Updates on schedule should be available has conference gets closer
- Symposia
- MacGyver symposium has been submitted
- Deadline extension was 2/18/2022
- Should be notified on proposals at the end of February
- Tech Talks?
- Putting this onto the radar – need to talk to Rebecca
- What would this look like in the future for CFTC
Center for Fisheries Technology and Collaboration update
*No updates to report on currently
Citizen Science Task Force (Paul)
- Putting these talks into an annual symposium
- Not needing to recruit volunteers any longer.
New Business
Paul’s Updates:
- Fish r core development team: meeting every month
- Starting to prioritize action items and assign people to items
- Created a mission statement
- Working on moving fish R website to fits website and “make it our own”
- Working on what to keep and what to take out