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WSS-ACSM MINUTES May19th, 2005 www.wss-acsm.org Attendees: Acting for WSS-ACSM
Chairman Dave George Jon Warren moved that the
April minutes be approved. April minutes were approved. He also suggested that Tim
become Secretary/Treasurer for the interim until we fill the Treasurer
position. Tim acknowledged that Bob
Bonaker from GeoLine has posted updated minutes and reminds us that other pages
are out of date. We discussed some of the content and it was agreed that Tim
should ask for feedback for making improvements to the WSS-ACSM web content. Tim attended a lunch
meeting at the 2005 WAURISA Conferene in Tukwila. WAURISA is the
“Washington Urban and Regional Information Systems Association”. Consistent
with Chairman Dave George’s efforts, on behalf of WSS-ACSM he informally volunteered
the services of WSS-ACSM to help provide a venue for the 2006 WAURISA conference.
We will need to follow-up and bring this forward at our next regular meeting. Ken Swindaman representing
LSAW has asked WSS-ACSM to consider contributing annually to their auction,
possibly at least this year’s auction. We agreed to bring this forward for action at the
next regular dinner meeting. The next WSS-ACSM meeting
will feature a vendor presentation along with dinner. We agreed that
this might help our regular meeting attendance while providing an educational or
informational program. Jon Warren mentioned in
order to help bridge the gap between survey and GIS professionals, that we
should consider formal recognition at annually at the LSAW conference. We can recognize a
surveyor for accomplishments within GIS as the “GIS Surveyor of the Year”, then likewise a
person from the GIS profession for accomplishments
within surveying “GIS Associate Surveyor of the Year”. Ken Swindaman and
We closed the meeting at
8:15PM. Next Meeting: Thursday, June 16th, 6:00PM REGULAR MEETINGS ARE ON THE THIRD THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH
AT ANGELO'S RESTAURANT IN Informational Attachment to Minutes: VENDOR
PRESENTATION HAS BEEN SCHEDULED PLEASE
REVIEW http://www.wss-acsm.org
Bring
your comments or suggestions to our next dinner meeting; 16 June 2005 or
return an email to Vendor
Presentation: "Aerials
Express" has agreed to demonstrate their product which is somewhat
unique as it combines lightweight GIS software with data. The
vendor presentation is NOT a product endorsement. This presentation is
for information and educational purposes. Dinner
and presentation - $30.00 - pay at the door RSVP by Tuesday, June 14 to
(tim.leach@muckleshoot.nsn.us) appreciated. For
directions visit www.wss-acsm.org
and click meetings. Following
is a short critique of the existing web pages. Please glance at the
site and bring your ideas for changes to the next meeting. (We should
probably start with small simple changes first.) WSS-ACSM
Web Page Content Comments: Post
WSS-ACSM by-laws (Ken Swindaman). Contacts
Page -
Verify WSS-ACSM address? -
Update Dave George contact information GeoLine Positioning Systems, Inc. -
Update GIS Manager 253.876.3182 Fax -
Update Treasurer to show “unfilled” (Jon Warren) Links -
CPS-GIS Bulletin Board -
WAURISA Applications - Change
“Membership for National ACSM is through member organizations at: http://www.acsm.net/members.html -
post “Washinton State Section” form here Events -
Post LSAW Events Publications -
American Surveyor Magazine? -
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