Meeting+2010+Aug+5

Thursday 2010 Aug 5 8:30-10 1214 Jordan Hall, NCSU Campus
 * Wake County Nature Preserves Meeting**

Hess, Steelman, Ramsey away. Blank is likely to be out. **MEETING CANCELLED - items moved to Aug 19 Agenda**
 * Attendance Notes**


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 * PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE A FILM CREW AT THE MEETING TODAY for the Outreach Scholarship Conference video.**


 * Introductions as needed**

1) REPORT YOUR VOLUNTEER HOURS!! Toddi will bring volunteer forms for all to fill out. Scott will get them back to WRC. Let's start the fiscal year off right by making sure we all record our hours for the WRC. Please see this (old) note from Jacquelyn; she has asked that we send our forms to Jeff Marcus at jeff.marcus@ncwildlife.org or to the new person who will hopefully be assigned to work with us after she leaves. Dear Wake Nature Preserve Partners:

The Urban Wildlife Project I coordinate for the NC Wildlife Resources Commission is funded by a federal grant program called SWG (State Wildlife Grants). We receive SWG funds to assist us in implementing the Wildlife Action Plan (WAP), and the Wake Nature Preserve partnership's efforts are helping meet urban wildlife goals outlined in the WAP. Because the partnership is helping us address these goals, we can report hours and miles you all contribute to the partnership as an "in-kind" match.

To meet SWG funding requirements, we have to report "in-kind" contributions to the feds in June. It would be a huge help if you could fill out the attached form, and resend to me by June 1. Listed below are dates of this past year's meetings. On the form, you can list all hours/miles driven for meetings you attended on one line. You can also list hours/miles for any other activities in subsequent lines.

Here is the form for submitting in kind hours: [|InKindReportingForm.doc]


 * Note from Hess: Note that there is a "****Report Your Service** **" link in the navigation menu on the left of the wiki page. It contains the forms and several approaches to reporting service.**

2) DOMAIN NAME and LOGO-- updates from George and Shawn Charlie,

Thanks for this. I think we'll go with wakenature.org. The ncsu.edu idea is reasonable, because it's free, but we're trying to maintain an equitable partnership among the many organizations involved so that approach doesn't reflect that spirit.

My understanding of domain names is that we can register wakenature.org and, for now, have it send people to our wiki space at wakenature.wikispaces.org Then we can later change it to point to anywhere else we'd like once we create a better website. Is that correct?

Cheers, george

Absolutely, most domain providers will let you forward a URL to another domain, I've often seen this referred to as "making." Usually the way it works is that It won't let you "deep link" to anything in the website your forwarding to. So, while you're clicking around in the wiki, the URL stays the same in the address bar. And yes, you can change it to whatever else at a later date. Just wanted to mention that caveat involved in URL Forwarding/Masking. -Charlie


 * Recommendation from george:** (who will work to make this happen) (1) Obtain domain name wakenature.org and point it to the wiki. (2) Improve the wiki to give it a more public-friendly layout (as much as possible). This would likely involve "hiding" some of the more internal stuff so that it doesn't take up a lot of space on the front page. (3) Seek a class willing to help us create an official web site.

We have the money to pay for this, and I believe Charlie will help us get set up.

Right now, the wiki doesn't allow us to set individual pages for public and private reading. We can either show it all or hide it all. We'd have to pay more (increase from $50/year to $200/year) to get this feature. I don't think it's worth it - I think we can just put the more esoteric stuff off to the side where we know it is - if public users find it, so be it.

3) MOU-- update from Toddi Please see the Charter link on this page http://chathamconservation.wikispaces.com/

4) VOLUNTEER DAY-- Now scheduled for September 10. Meghan is checking with Sarah Slover. John is checking with John Stuckey and Tom Wentworth. Scott is checking with NHP folks.

What is the vision? What do we want to accomplish? What promotional activity should we be engaging in to make this a success?

5) ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY -- Meghan and Chris have discussed the need to deal with some of the lespideza in August before it goes to seed, and LaTroya is looking for additional filming opportunities. Chris is thinking about this as a staff + volunteer workday. Meghan to report further.

6) APPLICATION PROTOCOL-- update from George

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