SAWE Canada Chapter

Executive Meeting Minutes – Monthly Teleconference

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
- ACTION: 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 may be able to host a GTA social at his place, since its no longer plausible for Whidy Kiskunas to host due to personal circumstances
Ideas for Venues or Outings? ie: Blue Jays Game?
- West (Focal – Chandan Deol)
- 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: 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: Robert to provide latest e-mail distribution list of membership

ACTION: April will send out link to meeting minutes to the entire membership with Robert’s latest e-mail distribution list (current membership)
- Career experience, why joined SAWE, any conference experience and what it meant to you, what papers have you found useful, etc.
- ACTION: Darren to send an action to 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.
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 June meeting)

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

Discussion of RP100
- ACTION: Executive and all interested to download off of SAWE website for discussion

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
- - Contact Andy Shuster or John Hargrave if interested in participating
    - General Certification
    - Specialized Certification