Thursday, 8 August 2013

August 7 Minutes

MINUTES
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
1:30pm-5pm

In Attendance
Via Conference Call, Web Meeting
Absent                            
David Ibsen
Alison Chang
Brandon Lieu
Damian Karl
Melody Guo
Mehmet Budak
Trudy Sauer





Minutes Taken By:  Brandon Lieu
Carole Ibsen
Alliah Krahn
April
Nicole

Summary of Action Items – FACTS Meeting – DATE: August 7, 2013

Please see highlighted below

Approval of Minutes from July 30th Meeting: Brandon:
-          Approved.

Review & Completion Status of Action Items from July 30 Meeting Minutes – David Ibsen:

No.
Action Item
1
·         Action Required (Damian and Brandon): Coordinators tell Alison how you want the blog set up
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Comments/Completion:
complete
2
·         Action Required (Everyone): Everyone must comment on http://factsum.blogspot.com/2013/07/pac-did-wells-and-lessons-learned.html
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Comments/Completion:
If you have not commented, please do so
3
FACTSnet Summer 2014 (this will be public for everyone to see)àAction Required: (Everyone)
·         2013 Summary
·         POST ON FACTSnet Summer 2014 OR EMAIL LINK TO ALISON
·         Action Required (Everyone): Create blank posts for where you will put all the posts that will transition employees for next year along with summary of our work for the public
·          
o   Action Required (Everyone): create a journal of what you have done this summer
§  one post on what you did for your constituency
§  one post for what you did for FACTSnet
§  Brandon also post on being team leader
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Comments/Completion:
-          Very important!
-          Please complete ASAP
4
Action Required (Everyone): If you’ve made contacts to other organizations, send them to Brandon to create a database
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Comments/Completion:
Incomplete

Minutes notes
Welcome back Alliah!!
           
Going over minutes

·         Action Required (Alison): Make  sure everyone has their Summer Jobs 2013 comments
·         Action Required (Everyone): Everyone must comment on http://factsum.blogspot.com/2013/07/pac-did-wells-and-lessons-learned.html
·          
FACTSnet Summer 2014 (this will be public for everyone to see)àAction Required: (Everyone)
·         2013 Summary
·         POST ON FACTSnet Summer 2014 OR EMAIL LINK TO ALLIAH
o   Action Required (Everyone): create a journal of what you have done this summer
§  one post on what you did for your constituency
§  one post for what you did for FACTSnet
§  Brandon also post on being team leader
-          See Alison’s email

Action Required (Everyone): If you’ve made contacts to other organizations, send them to Brandon to create a database

Updating FACTSnet website

·         Action Required (Alliah, Alison and Brandon): Add 2 more links (fix priority blogs)
·         Action Required (Alison and Alliah): FACTSnet Summer Team 2013 goes into index and removed from site

·         Action Required (Brandon): Send what you are doing for your last week working
o   -what you will pass on to Alliah
·         Action Required (Brandon): Requires team leader proposal
·         Action Required (Alison): Take down community assistant proposal

·         “Shout out to Alison for being a wonderful executive assistant” Dave

·         Action Required (Everyone): Comment on procedures post
·         Action Required (Damian): Create link to the adaptabilities blog and hyperlink it on the 2013 Adaptabilities/Disabilities Seminar and Dialogue Session

·         Action Required (Brandon): Create link to the dialogue blog and hyperlink it on the 2013 Adaptabilities/Disabilities Seminar and Dialogue Session
·         Action Required (Alison): Change all Summer 2013 Index links into 1 post
·         Action Required (Alison): Email everyone the new link
·         Action Required (Everyone): Comment on all of the index links when Alison emails you
·         Action Required (Everyone): Give Mehmet your personal blog ex. Brandon’s Blog access so he can archive it AND other blogs you have sole access to on FACTSnet
·         Action Required (Alison): create an index on Adaptabilities/Disabilities Dialogue
·         Action Required (Brandon): post on hsummer for factsnet summer jobs 2014 take the 2013 stuff and put it in there (what they have to do ex. Come put to the workshops, the competition etc.)
o   Link it to 2013 summaries and job descriptions as well
·         Action Required (Brandon): Sponsors: Community initiative grant (special 2013 sponsor) just make it very briefàadd that on website
·         Action Required (Damian and Brandon): Plan for a dialogue during fall

o   Topics: what is inclusion?
o   Inclusion in the workplace


Thursday, 1 August 2013

July 24 Meeting Minutes

MINUTES
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
3pm-6pm

In Attendance
Via Conference Call, Web Meeting
Absent                            
David Ibsen
Alison Chang
Brandon Lieu
Damian Karl
Melody Guo
Mehmet Budak
Trudy Sauer


Alliah Krahn



Minutes Taken By:  Brandon Lieu
Carole Ibsen
Nicole
Cody
Jon

Approval of Minutes from July 17th Meeting: Brandon:
-          Approved.

Review & Completion Status of Action Items from July 17 Meeting Minutes – David Ibsen:

No.
Action Item
1
To-Do (Due July 30): http://hsummers.blogspot.ca/2013/07/flags-july-17-2013.html

Instructions: The Flag Words are referring to the 5 traits listed at your top 5 motivators. You are to do this (Flag Word, Definition, and Support Statement) for each of the 5 words. Then use all 5 to create the personal mission statement.
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Comments/Completion:
·         Support statement: what do you need from others to support you in your definition of your word
2
TODO by next week July 24:

• New post for comments about the PAC presentation (Good points/Lessons Learned).
• Summary to be written by Brandon and submitted to Alison.
• Mehmet send link to everyone for video of PAC presentation so that everyone can review and test if recording was successful.
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Comments/Completion:

Summary of Action Items – FACTS Meeting – DATE: From July 24

*Please look at the highlighted text

Meeting Notes
           
Dave shows the new draft for the FACTSnet website

*Next Tuesday July 30, meet at 4PM (will end later)à We will go through personality
Action Required (Alison, Dave): get here by 1:30

August 7th
·         Meeting starts at 1:30PM
·         Seminar starts at 7PM
·         We will have 1.5 hour break (dinner)
o   We may order in food
·         Action required (Brandon): Create and email letters to invite guests
·         Action required: (Alison): Create poster for seminar
·         Action Required (Mehmet): Send out emails to database that Melody has created
§  this for dialogue information and how the 2013 Adaptabilities/Disabilities Seminar(ADS) will be modelled after
·         Look at “Local conversations May-June 09”
o   Conversation kit
o   Action Required (Alison, Brandon and Damian): Explore blog
o   Action Required (Alison): use Inspiring Education- Heritage Conversation and convert it to “FACTSnet Adaptabilities/Disabilities Dialogue” and format it to fit our dialogue session on Aug 7
§  Use Inspiring Education guidelines
·         Action Required (Brandon) will work on content of it
o    Activities: Participants in groups will work together to form a summary and comment so we can all look at it
o   Will give participants a number so they can participate anonymously if they like (number will also tell you which group you are in)
o   Action Required (Brandon): Revise list of things to bring: Lamp
o   Action Required (Brandon): Begin sending put
o   Question for dialogue: What do people with learning disabilities want, especially in regards to summer employment?
o   Talk to Alliah and Kim to figure out their presentation

Damian can do the entire thing on introducing the blog
After David introduces FACTSnet, he will show the blog for dialoguing and Brandon can introduce it along with the question: What do people with learning disabilities want, especially in regards to summer employment?
Feedback from recording of PAC seminar: the video quality was ok but not the best (signing was viewable but kind of hard to follow from the video)
Interpreters bring for Aug 7:
§  Lamp (will be placed beside interpreter)
§  Video Camera
Personal Development Session
·         Worldview The Unshakable Truth Network
·         Next Week:
o    Action Required (Everyone): Flags no bags
§  Mission Statement
§  Relational Summary
§  Plan for baggage handling 
§  Suggestions for next year (Per. Dev. 2013 comments Saturday).   Alison summarize.  (everyone must make a comment)

·         Action Required (Everyone):

·         New post for comments about the PAC presentation (Good points/Lessons Learned).
·         Action Required (Brandon and Alison) Summary to be written by Brandon and submitted to Alison. (post on FACTS Summer
·         Mehmet send link to everyone for video of PAC presentation so that everyone can review and test if recording was successful.
·         Action Required (Brandon): See if can work on last week of August instead of Aug 11-17

Preparing for Next Summer
·         Procedures for next year - what do we pass on?
·         We will have a post for each of these sections so please comment in the appropriate post
o    Action Required (Alison):  create a post for each of the following bullets listed below
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Summer jobs 2014 (in Hsummers)
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Job competition and interview
o    Action Required (Alison): comment on Start up
o    Action Required (Mehmet): Revise Time sheets for next yearà everyone has been doing good
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Daily reportingà everyone has been doing good
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Goals and plans summer, weekly, dailyà some people have been doing good, some not so much
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Weekly availability sheet
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Agendaà we are getting better on it
o    Action Required (Everyone): comment on Meetingsà we are improving (such as recording, anymeeting)
o    Action Required (Brandon and Alliah): comment on Information Seminars (constituency and professional)
o    Action Required (Everyone): create a journal of what you have done this summer
§  one post on what you did for your constituency
§  one post for what you did for FACTSnet
§  (ex. Brandon talk about disabilities and leadership)
·         Have job competition a week ahead
·         Mehmet has made an index “Internet Download Manager” that has all of the FACTSnet posts
·         Action Required (Mehmet): make a link to “Internet Download Manager
·         Action Required (Everyone): send a link of ALL of your blogs and send it to Mehmet to index
·         Discussed possibility of creating a FACTSnet student group at the U of A
o    Action Required (Brandon): Look into creating a student group for FACTSnet

o    Action Required (Brandon, Damian, Melody, Alliah): decide if you would be interested in it