Hampedia Revitalization Project Minutes

This page contains notes from Hampedia Revitalization Project meetings.

Saturday, February 11th, 2017
Airport Lounge, 2:30 PM

Agenda



 * Minutes taken by Samuel Edwards
 * Discussed Hampedia history - advisory and management board previously in control of Hampedia; we think it could be less complicated
 * TX suggests Hampedia can act as vector for info not filtered by the administration; gives space for radical student positions without college endorsement so that college federal funding won't be threatened
 * Next steps: form board, give tutorials to general Hampshire population
 * Stuff we've tried: Approaching CLA to register Hampshire Bureau of Information as official student group (they turned us down)
 * Hampedia seen as just courseware; info side of Hampedia seen by faculty/staff as failed project and courseware as outdated project - we want to challenge that
 * Courseware aspect is not what we're interested in reviving, but rather using Hampedia as information center
 * Upcoming meeting with IT to potentially move Hampedia to school servers
 * Establish regular open meetings for Hampedia
 * Two meetings next, one on the Thursday after Advising Day and one on Saturday a week from today (Sat aimed at students in APL, Thurs aimed at faculty/staff in Kern) - future frequency of meetings TBD
 * Send separate daily digest ads for both faculty and students
 * Ideas for spreading the word: tabling at Saga or in library lobby, Facebook events
 * Yik Yak suggested but then turned down as it is a fualty way of advertising (implication of trolling/lack of planning)
 * Postering seems too much labor for little reward, but Aidan, Alice suggests some postering may be done if we're making flyers anyway but it shouldn't be our main focus
 * Tabling in library Thursday
 * Faculty meeting should talk about shift away from Hampedia as courseware and why
 * Last slide: what can you tell us about Hampedia?
 * Made list of specific faculty/staff to invite (Roxy Matuszek, Jim Wald, Steve Dillon, Bob Meagher, Josiah Eriksen, Ira Fay, Tim Zimmerman, CASA deans) and delegated who would contact them
 * Thursday after advising day decided for meeting aimed at faculty/staff
 * TX suggests we ask for Kern food funding from Roxy
 * TX makes poster (color), Aidan, Alice prints
 * TX will compose daily digest messages (Sam sends them out)
 * Sam will create Facebook events
 * Reserve spaces for Kern and APL; reserve table on Ad Astra
 * Advertise meetings on Hampedia; update Hampedia Revitalization Project page (Aidan, Alice and Sam will do this together)
 * Sam looks into Saga tabling; Aidan, Alice library and Kern
 * Meeting adjourned at 3:40 PM

Attendance

 * Samuel Edwards
 * T.X. Watson
 * Aidan, Alice West