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of our website; Grant will work on implementing it on our unit site within the next week<\/li>\n<li>SSO connecting a login from fisheries.org to the unit sites is fairly easily done, but a substantial enough project that it would need to be its own &#8220;line item&#8221; for the web programmer. <strong>Action Item:<\/strong> Rebecca will pursue this through the Electronic Services Advisory Board, as it affects all units and could be incredibly useful for all units.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Midway meeting report (Paul)\n<ul>\n<li>Day and a half long with a lot of focus grouping and discussion<\/li>\n<li>Climate Change Action\n<ul>\n<li>Things AFS can do about climate change and prioritize those actions<\/li>\n<li>What can each chapter and section do?<\/li>\n<li>President is working on a letter from AFS to be shared with other aquatic societies<\/li>\n<li>Idea of starting a climate change section of AFS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Strategic plan\n<ul>\n<li>Alignment with chapters and sections\n<ul>\n<li>Getting sections to identify how priorities and goals align with strategic plan<\/li>\n<li>Making sure chapters are aware and using it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Encourage Plan of Work for each incoming President for every section<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Workshopped President\u2019s Plan of Work\n<ul>\n<li>Four high priority areas\n<ul>\n<li>Public trust and visibility\n<ul>\n<li>Outreach, Media, and Policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Skills Development for Career Advancement\n<ul>\n<li>Surveying members for needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Increase Diversity\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing interest earlier on in a person\u2019s life\n<ul>\n<li>High school chapters<\/li>\n<li>Minors- legal factors\/red tape?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Expanding Hutton program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Planning of Rebranding AFS\n<ul>\n<li>Name change discussion\n<ul>\n<li>Territory issues<\/li>\n<li>Large Canadian membership (issues with \u201cAmerican\u201d)\n<ul>\n<li>Difficult for Federal policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not just name and logo that are important, but also connecting with who we serve<\/li>\n<li>Options so far\n<ul>\n<li>American Fisheries Society of North America<\/li>\n<li>International Fisheries Society<\/li>\n<li>The Fisheries Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Software\n<ul>\n<li>FAMS is a good revenue source for us, do we plan to put more out?<\/li>\n<li>Our role is to facilitate the process of software development that fits the needs of the overall membership<\/li>\n<li>Open source packages in R is typical avenue for many things these days<\/li>\n<li>FSA legacy plan- FITS could possibly help with this, but it would not be a revenue source.\n<ul>\n<li>Could we tie this into workshop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pathway to donations for software development?<\/li>\n<li>Repository or clearing house for app data or apps that have data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AFS 2020\n<ul>\n<li>Update on Big Data Symposium (Dan)\n<ul>\n<li>Asked for full day<\/li>\n<li><strong>Action Item<\/strong>&#8211; Dan to follow up with tentative speakers to encourage abstract submissions<\/li>\n<li>Well-advertised among AFS sections<\/li>\n<li>Deadline for abstracts is March 23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Update on late CE workshop submission (Paul)\n<ul>\n<li>Data management workshop &#8211; Tentatively accepted for half a day\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Action Item:<\/strong> Kayla to ask Keith Hurley to instruct workshop<\/li>\n<li>If Keith cannot instruct, Julie has expressed interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>150 booth update (Paul\/Rebecca) and discussion\n<ul>\n<li>Photo competition sent out and posted on our site and Students and Early Career subsection site\n<ul>\n<li>Deadline is July 31, 2020<\/li>\n<li>3D camera as prize<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca plans to share with student listserv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Security provided by AFS<\/li>\n<li>Booth package at $130\n<ul>\n<li>Includes: Back drape, side drape, table with curtain, two chairs and waste basket and ID sign<\/li>\n<li>$132 for electricity to charge phones<\/li>\n<li>Need a power strip<\/li>\n<li><strong>Action Item:<\/strong> Rebecca to fill out booth form, due July 20<sup>th<\/sup>, try to submit before July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CFTC status (Paul\/Rebecca)\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca has a call with Jason on Monday<\/li>\n<li>Can start building now that WordPress is updated with necessary plugin<\/li>\n<li>Lay out schedule with target deadlines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Travel Award (Paul\/Rebecca)\n<ul>\n<li>Table until next meeting<\/li>\n<li>Goal for next meeting \u2013 decide on a timeline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other business\n<ul>\n<li>ExComm discussion on election cycle\n<ul>\n<li>Proposal by Rebecca<\/li>\n<li>Change of by-laws to convert to new system: 4 year commitment\n<ul>\n<li>Second vice president\n<ul>\n<li>Learning year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>President elect\n<ul>\n<li>Filling more duties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>President<\/li>\n<li>Past president<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Action item:<\/strong> Kayla will get with Rebecca and work on pursuing discussion with constitutional consultant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Next Meeting April 10<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes March 13, 2020 \u00a0 Attendees: Kayla, Rebecca, Paul, Dan, Tiffany Old Business Rebecca has fixed the email\/newsletter issue. 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