SAWE Canada Chapter

Executive Meeting Minutes – Monthly Teleconference

Access to Gulfstream/UoJ Training Pack
- - ACTION: Rod to continue to follow up with Damien
    - UPDATE: Damien e-mailed back after initial contact, and doesn’t mind sharing information with SAWE Canada Chapter, however Rod hasn’t received anything yet, so Rod will follow up.

As it is too late to plan a full technical conference, it was discussed to use a fall social networking event to promote discussion of the survey and get further honest feedback from members of the mass properties community
- CLOSED (Aug 7): April will update the website (www.sawe.ca) with the the chapter survey results summary (link below), and include a heads up to the mass properties community about a potential social gathering in the fall to follow up the survey and to network with others in the profession
  - http://www.sawe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Chapter-Survey-on-Communication-and-Events-May-2019.pptx
- ACTION: Darren collecting suitable dates
  - Possible Dates?

Jerry Ramos has agreed to host a GTA social at his place
- ACTION: April/Rod/Whidy to decide on two possible dates that work best for GTA social gathering, and will send out an e-mail to membership to receive feedback on preferred date.
Ideas for Venues or Outings? ie: Blue Jays Game?
- West (Focal – Chandan Deol)
  - UPDATE: Chandan has contacted members in the West Region, and is awaiting replies.
- GTA (Focals – Whidy Kiskunas & Jerry Ramos)
- Montreal Area (Stuart Norris)
- ACTION: Executive needs to finalize a DATE and LOCATION for these social gatherings so an invite can be sent out – Budget is $30 pp.

ACTION: Executive to review comments from Survey and Action. Specific actions to be listed below in future minutes.
- ACTION: To encourage participation and feedback, Executive to Plan a social networking event – in progress
- ACTION: Robert will update membership list and provide latest e-mail distribution list of membership to the social planning focals and to April for minutes distribution.

ACTION: To help encourage website traffic and utilization, April to e-mail members a link to the monthly minutes, directing them to the website – Ongoing (www.sawe.ca).
ACTION: Executive Members to create a self biography on career experience, reason for joining SAWE, conference experiences and what it meant to you, papers you found useful, etc.
- Career experience, why joined SAWE, any conference experience and what it meant to you, what papers have you found useful, etc.
  - Darren has completed one
Old Question from Minutes Past: What would be some beneficial information that we could post other than news and board minutes to make the website worthwhile? Should we have some sort of library only available to current members of presentations, papers and useful tools that are used by our members?
- - Useful links
  - AGS, FAA W&B manual, etc
  - Trip reports from conferences
  - ACTION: Board members to generate lists of links and other useful publicly available documents that would be good to add to the website to generate interest (before Sept meeting)
  - ACTION: Board members to send April previous conference trip reports from the past. These will be filed on the website in the documents section. A link will be provided on the main page. These are invaluable to show evidence of conference value to employers when requesting to go to a SAWE conference.
    - Chandan and Lindsay’s are already on the website (will put in documents folders with others)
    - Whidy
    - Rod

Starting in September, monthly meetings will be structured like the following:
- 12-12:30 Technical
- 12:30-1pm Chapter Business (Canada and International)

Remind Members to Register for SAWE Blog – on upper RHS of sawe.org website
- Click on blog, and the register link is on the RHS.
RP9 Development – Data Exchange
- ISO 10303 – SAWE RP9 – Data Exchange
- Looking for Voluneers, Contact Sebastien-Verian Herda
Mass Properties Certification – Monthly Discussions to create a MP certification in 2 year timeframe
- It was clarified that the goal is to actually have the first companies certified by 2027.
- - Contact Andy Shuster or John Hargrave if interested in participating
    - General Certification
    - Specialized Certification
    - Three levels of certification are now being considered
    - Canada Chapter has some concerns about the expectations being too high within the levels
    - ACTION: Darren to circulate the three levels definition table to the Executive to get some feedback, and the executive to provide feedback to Darren.