SRN Executive minutes – April 2019

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Minutes SRN EC Meeting

Wednesday 24 April 2019 at 21.30 Vienna Time

Attending: CSB (chair), JF, PR, CT (minutes), AZ

Excused: MMcV, CM

  1. Approval of the minutes 190327 (last meeting)

approved

 

  1. Next Conferences:

Information about the SRN Call for Conferences. Timeline (CSB, CT)

One official bid by Brazil so far, three other ones are in the works. One will need until mid-May, one will need some months.

Thus we decided to extend the deadline. The new deadline is May 27th, it will be communicated via our mailing list.

 

  1. Porto Conference

Registration is now open

We should encourage people to register

JH will put a reminder on social media.

 

  1. Web

Do we have statistics of the users?

No access to web statistics so far. How many people are visiting our website?

AZ will get the information.

Discussion about stats and usefulness of specific social media (FB, Twitter, Instagram, youtube, etc.)

We have to find out if the Porto organizers have a person, who is responsible for communication and social media and maybe stream and/or film some keynotes/presentations even if it is only audio.

 

  1. Awards

Steven Price: news about suggestions for the Article Award? (PR)

Steven will think about possible candidates. We might have to remind authors that self-nomination is allowed.

 

Next meeting: Wednesday 29 May 2019, 21.30 Vienna Time

End of meeting: 22:30