Date: August 16, 2021
Time: 1:30pm MST, 4:30pm EDT
Location: via Zoom
Meeting Type: Regular Meeting
How Called: Standing meeting
Convened: 4:40 EDT
Attendees: Barry, Maryanna, Katherine
1 Minutes
Approval of July minutes
2 Information Sharing
- Review partner description update status: Human IT & iFixit descriptions sent for approval (response requested by 7/30). Email sent to Independence First about dropping them as a partner. (response requested by 7/23). IBSA updated 7/23. iFixit response received & updates made 8/2, Human IT approved & updated 8/9
- Web page updates: Grant Searching, Conferences, Public Policy Initiatives, Training, Research, Racial Equity, COVID-19, EBB State by state, new & upcoming
- Partner Updates: Removed Independence First & Lutheran Social Services of North Florida as partners, since neither offer computer services any longer
- Updating Partner info — next By Katherine. See Latest two updates to read through, make suggestions, then we can contact the organizations to run it past them.
- Chester County Digital Inclusion Initiative. Working on SCCON committee for digital inclusion initiative. Signed up as RSVP volunteers, Barry is working with a trainee to use Oasis curriculum. Both will be involved in training the trainers, and Katherine volunteered to help distribute American Rescue Plan funds within the county. The form didn’t ask for qualifications, though.
3 Action Item Status Updates
Walking through Action Item List and noting updates. In the minutes, this will record items closed during meeting.
- Closed 8/7/21 – Opened 7/12/21. For EBB, Barry will check if there is a state by state summary. If not, we will start to create one. Since no one was creating one, we did, including US non-states like Guam. Criteria was not a service provider. Also came up with good links for each area.
4 Time and Location for Next Meeting
Next meeting — Sept 20 5:00 pm MST, 8:00 pm EDT via Zoom,
5 Adjourn
Adjourned: 5:25