Chair: Sumith

Minutes

1. Participants:
   • Amaraweera, Sumith, Xiaohui, Tsering, Rahman, 8con, Kondo, Dihan, Joan
2. Agenda:
   • Original
     1. Discuss what to do with the assigned tasks with no progress
     2. Prioritized work assignment
        1. Fellowship Announcement
        2. Tentative Camp Schedule
        3. Potential Speakers
        4. Sponsorship
        5. APNG promotion @ ITU Telecom Exhibition
     3. Next online meetings (Note that discussion point 3 was missing)
        
        
   • Added
     • Prof. Lee (APNG Chair) (Took this point first in discussion)
        
3. Prof. Lee (APNG Chair)
   • Joan contacted Prof. Lee to invite her to the committee meeting since she was online on MSN.
   • Prof. Lee has informed that she has already resigned from APNG Chair position and Tommy-son will handle the matter.
   • Committee decided to wait for Tommy-son’s response on this matter (which was expected via email).
   
   
4. Discuss what to do with the assigned tasks with no progress
   • Committee agreed to give two (2) additional weeks for the committee members who haven’t completed the assigned tasks to be completed. Some of the important items are:
     1. Comments & Suggestions (Sagarika)
     2. Visa Issues (Lihying)
   • Fellowship announcement will be delayed for another 2 weeks due to the unavailability of CFP in the following WG
     1. Internet Technology (Dihan)
     2. E-commerce (Rahman)
     3. E-learning & Live E! (Hikata-son)
   
   
5. Fellowships announcement (with CFP)
   • Committee agreed to offer following two types of fellowships in addition to usual full APNG fellowships.
     1. Partial fellowship (for the participants outside China)
     2. Local fellowships (for Chinese)
   • It was expected to have much higher participation for the 9th Camp in this way.
   • Partial fellowship
     • Will be same as full fellowship except the air fare for participant out side China.
   • Local fellowship
     • Will be same as partial fellowship (except accommodation for Chinese?)
   • Committee wanted to make the complication minimal for selection criteria.
     
   • Aadit was assigned to draft the selection criteria and is expected to alter the Fellowship announcement accordingly as the Fellowship coordinator.
     
   • Xiaohui was assigned to support Aadit task by doing a rough budgeting for each type of fellowship.
     
   • Deadlines
     1. Fellowship & CFP Announcement 20-Oct-06
     2. Fellowship Application Closing Date 31-Dec-06
     3. Fellowship Evaluation 28-Feb-07
     4. Selection Announcement 03-Mar-07
         
6. Tentative Camp Schedule
   • Should have time for each speaker.
   • Xiaohui & Tsering will work to upload the tentative camp schedule on the web.
      
7. Potential speakers
   • Decided to get some speakers attending APAN.
   • Each committee member was expected to suggest names within one week of the meeting.
   • Some keynote speakers will grab from sponsors.
   • Camp Chair/Tommy-son will decide the speakers. Camp committee will only propose a potential list.
      
8. Sponsorships:
   • Decided to alter the request letter removing the fact that tentative schedule is on-line.
   • The list of documents to sent was finalized.
   • Committee discussed to put APNG committee member resumes/biography/names on the sponsorship request letter and dropped the idea.
   • Tsering was asked to update the information about the APNG committee members with more details.
   • Each committee member was requested to provide a contact point for APNG activities in their countries.
      
9. APNG promotion @ ITU Telecom Exhibition
   • No application was received by the meeting date.
      
10. Next Meeting
    • Date: Saturday, 4th November 2006
    • Time: Same as previous
      1. Japan and Korea (GMT+9:00): 21:00pm
      2. Taiwan, China, Malaysia and the Philippines (GMT+8:00): 20:00pm
      3. Thailand (GMT+7:00): 19:00pm
      4. Bangladesh (GMT+6:00): 18:00pm
      5. Sri Lanka (GMT+5:30): 17:30pm
      6. Nepal (GMT+5:45): 17:45pm
      7. Pakistan (GMT+5:00): 17:00pm
    • Venue: Yahoo Messenger