Ed Tech Committee
Crowne Plaza, SF Airport
April 9, 2011

1.            Attendees – KC Boylan and Terry Elverum

2.            Approval of Minutes – reviewed notes from previous meeting, not yet submitted. Terry will follow up and submit minutes from January 2011.

3.            Old Business

A. Committee membership—need for tech saavy members who are early adopters or heavy tech users. Spoke to Josh and Jeff about the importance of finding new members for the committee who have a level expertise in order to support actions in a variety of areas . Be certain that members who are interested notify the local president to nominate.

B.           Committee purpose and current actions—reviewed the purpose or responsibilities of the committee as identified on the CFT website.

i.             Collective bargaining –formulating recommendations on collective bargaining issues and contract language.

ii.            Tech for organizing—reviewing current emerging technologies to organize members for union activities and political action. (The following examples represent current users and potential opportunities…

1. Flash mob phone banking—prepaid cell phones with pre-programmed numbers for legislators
2. Social networking options (Twitter/Facebook/Blogs)

iii.           Conduct Technology training—discussed

1.            CFT publications—creative common license and open source

2.            Ed Issues, Gregg Solkovits, requested a joint meeting to discuss open sources issues (Alquist Bill).

4.            New Business—and ACTION

A.           Conduct needs assessment—committees priorities should be determined by members need. Committee members reviewed the draft survey distributed by Terry in March—KC will forward a revised version to the committee members by the end of May. Terry will follow up with other CFT surveys to look for tech crossover questions.