PEOI Board of Directors July 2, 2007

Dear board members,

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Starting this year, board meeting are conducted in My discussion on PEOI.
To participate in the discussion you must be registered and logged in.
Please verify that you have no problem logging in (if you do have a
problem, contact me right away).

In addition, for those interested, we can conduct an optional
conference call using skype. My address at skype is
john.petroff@skype.com, but you need to notify me when you want to
conduct the conference call.

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The agenda items for July 2007 online board meeting are
presented below.

Item #1- approval of the minutes of March 2007 meeting.
See https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/minutes/minutes07-03.html

Item #2- outstanding open education course author award committee:

As reported in March 2007 board meeting minutes, the authors award
concept was virtually unanimously supported. Now action is requested,
both in terms of who will participate in the committee and how the
committee should conduct its activity. The details of how to seek worthy
candidates, publicize the award, set selection criteria, set deadlines,
will all be decide by the committee members themselves. PEOI's Bylaws
Article 5 requires that subcommittees be created by a resolution of the
board of directors, that sets its goal and method of operations. Thus,
the following resolution is proposed:

Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 1

"PEOI's course author award committee is thereby created with the goal
of presenting at least one worthy candidate for the award per year to
PEOI's board of directors, with a minimum of three board members, at least
one online meeting two months prior to each PEOI's board meeting per
year, and minutes of each meeting submitted to PEOI's complete board
thereafter."

One person Mihai Charmihai has already expressed an interest. At least two
more persons are needed. I remind board members that PEOI's

Applications and nominations are invited on participation in committee

Item #3- funding outstanding open education course author award committee:

As can be read in PEOI's board meeting minutes, the idea of having a
money award for outstanding course author was supported by most because
without it the award would be far less attractive. Volunteers needed to
carry out funding solicitation which probably can be mostly online.

Item #4- appointment of new board members:

Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 2 appointment of Mara Jevera Fulmer as board member
see <A HREF="https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/cv/cvfulmermarajevera.pdf" >cvfulmermarajevera.pdf </A>
see also her registration as staff #2441, and the illustrations created by her
students for ESL01EN Chapter (in "Upload images"), and that she uploaded for them;
Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 3 appointment of russanne low, Ph.D. as board member
see <A HREF="https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/cv/cvlowrussane.doc">cvlowrussane.doc </A>
Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 4 appointment of Rollins, Jack D., Ph.D. as board member
see <A HREF="https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/cv/cvrollinsjack.doc">cvrollinsjack.doc </A>
also see his registration as board member #2451 in "My group"
Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 5 appointment of Marjan Etemadi-Shad as board member
see board member #2452 in "My group"
Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 6 appointment of prasanth kumar as board member
see <A HREF="https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/cv/cvkumarprasanth.doc">cvkumarprasanth.doc </A>
Resolution proposal 2007-07 # 7 appointment of CJ Kalin, Ph.D. as board member
see <A HREF="https://www.peoi.org/About/Abouten/board/cv/cvkalincj.doc">cvkalincj.doc </A>

Please refrain from voting yes for more than five applicants.

Item #5- removal of board members:

Resolution proposal 2007-07 #8 removal for absences of Simon Rosin as board member

Item #6- next online board meeting:
November 2007

Please note that failure to completing response in My discussion
by July 31, 2007, will constitute a non-participation in board
meeting that may lead to removal from the board.

John Petroff
Chairman of the board

In order to facilitate discussion among 26 board members, here is the list of
email addresses in this distribution:

Board member list as of July 1 2007
1- Kenneth Barden <kenneth_barden@yahoo.com>
2- Rinku Bhattacharya <RinkuB@aol.com>
3- Mihai D Caramihai <m.caramihai@ieee.org>
4- sean chen <chxysean@yahoo.com>
5- edna eufemio <edna3dime@yahoo.com>
6- Frank Geerling <frankmgeerling@hotmail.com>
7- Johannes M. Glas <jmglas@hotmail.com>
8- Cauvery Sachdeva Handa <kaveri_princess@hotmail.com>
9- Jeanne M. Henry <jmhc_co@att.net>
10- Thirumagal Kanagasabai <thirumagal.kanagasabai@utoronto.ca>
11- Carol Law <carol.law@rogers.com>
12- Kimberly Louis <kimberlylouis@gmail.com>
13- Poi Kee (Frederick) Low <fred@starhub.net.sg>
14- Lynley Mackay <lyn-praid-crc@bigpond.com>
15- Olaf Noetzold <olaf.noetzold@gmx.de>
16- Anupam Palit <apalit3@yahoo.com>
17- Michael Palmer <mp043@hotmail.com>
18- Shahid Ali Panhwer <shahidalipanhwer@yahoo.com>
19- John Petroff <petroff@pronetisp.net>
20- Allison Raymond <aliraymond@aol.com>
21- Simon Rosin <simonism@simonism.com>
22- Krishna Seeburn <kris_seeburn@intnet.mu>
23- Romina Sengara <romina_sengara@hotmail.com>
24- Joseph Varghese <slightlykirix@gmail.com>
25- Minh Vo <mhvo2001@yahoo.com>
26- Patsy Wilcher <patsywilcher@yahoo.com>

Note that the following applicant was notified that they were
elected to the board in March 2007, but failed to register at PEOI:
- Maxime Émond-Richard