Re: [activities] Minutes of May committee meeting

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Mary Gardiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008, Anna Buttfield wrote:
>>           o No changes have been made to the constitution before, so
>> not sure of the process. Anna will investigate. This is urgent, as
>> there may be a time limit on this that we have already exceeded.
>
> Correction: there have been changes, in 2002 (mostly around not needing
> to give postal notice of certain things and being able to use email for
> them). However I have no recollection of how we went about registering
> the change so unfortunately this is just a factual correction, not
> useful.

Thanks :-)

>>           o There is a backlog of videos that haven't been recorded.
>> The old ones are on tape, we need to figure out how to get them off —
>> Michael will see if his camera can do it.
>>           o Matt Moor and Chris Degan probably have old video tapes —
>> Sridhar will contact them
>
> My understanding is that there may also be problems with copyright of
> the older footage, that the speakers may not have signed an agreement to
> release it, or, if they have, that the agreement might be lost.

That's a good point --- processing the old videos would be a serious
investment of time so we'd want to make sure we can use them.

Anna
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