CSSC Operating Team Call
Conference Call 002
Monday, February 15, 2010
7p.m.- 8:30p.m. PST
Call in #: 712 451 6000 x 697449
In attendance: Corie, Lauren, Pam, Ryan, Ashley, Zen, Rosie, Joy, Tiffany, Tessa, Holly, Allison
Absent:
Facilitator and before call greeter: Corie
Note Taker: Lauren
WELCOME 7:00 PM to 7:05PM (5 min)
Welcome, so glad you could make it. We’re really excited to hear how people have been and what progresses they’ve made on their goals. For any of those who weren’t on the call last time we can go through the etiquette very quickly. Pam do you want to do that.
Call Etiquette from Pam:
1) Get comfy
2) Have notebook and calendars at hand
3) Be respectful and listen.
It’s been two weeks since our first Operating Team call and our progress continues to be very strong. We’ve sent out our first newsletter, we’ve convened the Organizing Team for the first time, we now have a general flier to publicize CSSC, and the Board has made strides in developing its media kit as a tool to raise funds for CSSC. This call will be focused on sharing updates and discussing how we are all doing with our goals and if we need support to help achieve them.
Tell them whats happening ask if anything has anything to add
Zen wants to add: board ideas, but he will include in updates round.
INTRO ROUND 7:05 PM to 7:25 PM ( 15 - 20 min) I estimate about 10 people will be on this call. 1X10=10 min Let everyone know that they have around 1 minute to talk and ask them to keep an eye on their time. Plus time for questions at the end.
• N to S round - UCD (Lauren), SRJC, SFSU(Ashley)(Allison), CCSF(Zen), Stanford, Cal Poly SLO(Tessa, Sam), UCSB, Cal Poly Pomona(Rosie), UCLA, LAVC(Joy), UCSD(Jared), SDSU(Holly)(Kenzie)
• Name
• How you are doing - want to really know how you are doing
• Role in operating team
• What is a very loving thing that someone has done for you? (Not restricted to romantic interests. Loving acts by friends, family, and complete strangers are all accepted.)
Lauren - Co-Chair, Lauren is excited about her new computer, great for taking notes for this call. Lauren’s mom came and cleaned her apartment and helped her move.
Ashley - Co Editor for the Newsletter. San Francisco has been having beautiful weather. Ashley’s mom sent her 3 valentines this year.
Allison - Stressed about a chemistry test tomorrow. Her mom sent a valentine’s day care-package and birthday present.
Zen - Board member, Zen has been putting together activities for Earth week and is doing lots of planning this week. Zen is hoping to go to Sweden this summer for an intensive, he’ll be WWOOFing in Sweden. One of Zen’s thoughtful friends helped him pick out a gift for his significant other.
Tessa - Online Communities Manager, Tessa is also trying to WWOOF this summer. Tessa just got back from Strengthening the Roots convergence, got to see a bunch of friends from home.
Tiffany - Council Call coordinator, Really sick. 
Tiffany went to Venice beach with friends for Valentine’s Day.
Corie - Co-Chair, Corie is doing good and bad and has lots of things to do. Last night Quentin went to a hippie dippy valentine’s day yoga session even though he didn’t want to.
Rosie- Co Editor of the Newsletter. Rosie had a super busy week and presented TGIF to their AS group. She is proud of the newsletter. Rosie’s big brother does an excellent job of taking care of her in rough times.
Joy - Leader of the regional coordinators. Just done with her first week of school, Joy is excited about the new things that her club is doing. Her sister sent her a care package and a sweet note.
Sam - Regional coordinator, Sam had a great weekend at the Strengthening the Roots convergence. He was able to make an announcement at the conference about Statewide CSSC. He had a good valentine’s day.
Pam - Adviser Extraordinaire, Pam had a great day at the farmer’s market, played pickup lacrosse game, and is working at Dorothy’s office. Pam had a stranger wave hi and tell her to smile.
Holly - Website co-director. Holly has been working on her campus org’s website. Holly recently went on a field trip and to the Strengthening the Roots convergence. Her mom sent her a vegan cupcake cookbook.
Ryan - Adviser Extraordinaire, Happy everyone is here. Ryan had a weekend with his brother and went on a snow hike. His girlfriend showed up unexpectedly at his house after a 3 hr drive for Valentine’s Day
QUESTIONS - Are there any questions before we start our updates? Nope.
DISCUSSION OF UPDATES 7:25 PM to 8:10 PM (Corie and Lauren will share updates of those who could not be on the call) 45min/10 = 3 min
• S to N round
• Each person has about 3 minutes, to share:
o Progresses that they’ve made on their goals that we discussed last call
o Next steps for the next two weeks
o Tell us if you need any support, collaboration, or outside opinion
o Do you have any requests of the whole group
Holly - Everyone got their bios in. Headshots and bios will be on the website at the end of this week. Holly is excited about the launch of the new website in early march. The new platform will be much easier to use and is hoping that all of us will be able to interact with the website more. If you have any campaigns that should be included on the website, let Holly know. She is looking for collaboration, questions and comments once the website is launched.
Kenzie - Coordinators for ultimate civics, made a series of goals but has been thrown for a loop with the supreme court ruling (read about that here if you don’t what she is talking about). Kenzie has changed directions but Ricky Ott is confirmed for the convergence.
Jared - Wants to have a series of teams to work on the convergence. Strengthening the Roots was great. One team would be responsible to email to speakers. Let Jared know if you are interested.
Joy - Has complied a list of nearby schools, and has been planning and inviting schools to a regional potluck on march 14 in LA. Joy put together a spreadsheet data base for us to add in info that we know about nearby schools.
Tiffany - Call date has change Sunday march 7th at 7pm. As of right now the call is going to have a space for campus updates, why they want to get from cssc. She wants to work with joy on the call. Tiffany is working on the call agenda. She wants us to find a new name for the council call. Also what is the function of the call? Tiffany will talk about this after the OT call in two weeks. *Note: we will incorporate this into the next call agenda, so it will not be after the call. Pam’s feedback: awesome work to all and is looking forward to that conversation next call.
Corie - Working on one on ones, working on facilatating the call. Corie is looking forward to the website and next steps are to continue on one on ones.
Rosie - Got out the newslette. Thanks to Ryan, Keep the content coming in! Next week will be helping Ashley with editing content and will be learning more about the software for democracy in action. Tiffany is concerned about recieving the letter, Ryan suggests making sure it is not in a spam folder. Everyone gave a shoutout to the newsletter.
Sam - Learned a lot at Strengthening the Roots. He was on the Regional coordinator conference call last week. He is excited about the flier that Tessa designed. From the flier, a local community college has been in communication with Sam. Sam wants to get his info to Holly for the Website
Tessa - Been doing a lot of outreach, flier, getting people to join facebook, and trying to get people from Humboldt State to join the CSSC. Tessa has been researching other ways to reach target audience (maybe with art?). Next steps: Talking to more people, getting flyers on every campus, concerned about spam from website. There will be a CSSC awareness week coming up. Tessa asks that we change our profile picture during this week. More info will be coming about this event. There will be a CSSC outreach week coming up in March. Feedback Pam: Suggestion to connect with the regional coordinators about outreach.
Zen - Board update. Media kit is in the final stages. It will be released soon. They are focusing on board development, looking for influential players for the board. Tim and Zen are working on letting people know how the board works and functions. Still working on finding more sponsors. Zen is always willing to answer questions about the board.
Ashley - Glad the newsletter got out. Next steps: need a lot of content!, please send to [email protected], goal is to learn how to access democracy in action to help Ryan with his work load. Corie: when the content be in by? Response: the next deadline for content will be march 3rd the newsletter will be out march 10.
Allison - Working on compling a list of bay area schools. Related to the newsletter - have started a water tour related to the energy tour, posted on the newsletter and have gotten contacts from all over!
Lauren - worked on putting together call and also trying to figure out how to get the four of us to better communication lines.
Michael - Has contacted ESLP at UCSB, UCLA, UCSC, and UCSD.
Pam - have been doing one on ones, been working with kenzie on the ultimate civics, connecting with powershift, been working with michael on eslp, and brainstorming fundraising ideas. Trying to bring Nico back into the CSSC, maybe as a advisor role to Jared.
Ryan - Has updates galore! Has been working with his brother on the new website with now functionality. it is going to be really easy to edit and work with. It is also going to be really good lookin’. Look for that in March. will have a teaching and editing period before the full launch. Ryan is really excited about the open rate - 24% open rate - industry average is ~1%. Can look at the click rate on democracy in action. Wants to create a communal timeline which would be great for the newsletter, calls etc. Helping his ladies. Trilled about all the progress that has been made.
KUDOS 8:10 to 8:15pm- Pam explains
• Like we’ve talked about before, these calls are a positive feedback loop for all of us to support each other and to stay motivated by sharing our work.
• We’ll use the next five minutes to do popcorn style shout outs to anyone’s work in the past two weeks.
Kudos are a space for anyone to speak up and give positive feedback for people on this call for the good work that they’ve done.
Lauren - Tessa good work on facebook ideas and ways to contact people
Tessa - Ryan thanks for collaboration on outreach
Corie - Tessa, Rosie, Ashley, and Ryan great job on the media
Ryan - Thanks to Joy for organizing the organizing team.
Pam - Ashley and Rosie and Ryan for an amazing job on the newsletter. Then she thanked everyone else. She might have teared up at some point.
Ryan - Thanks to Corie for facilitating.
Any other announcements?
Allison - Please let folks know about the water tour. The info website will be on the notes. And here they are: The California Water Tour is now accepting applications. Apply Today!
https://sites.google.com/site/californiawatertour/file-cabinet
Corie - Looking for people to help Jared with emailing potential speakers. Tessa and Rosie stepped up!
Ryan - Technical: the operating team email still doesn’t work. Eventually, we will get that working. If you want an @sustainabilitycoalition.org email, let Ryan know.
CLOSE OUT (ROUND AND THANK YOU) 8:15 to 8:30 PM (15 minutes)
• N to S
• How are you feeling about moving forward in the next two weeks?
• Are there any last minute requests for collaboration or support?
• How do think this call went? (Since this is a safe space please feel free to share what you think and how you feel on a deeper level)
Ryan - Very happy with how the call went. Ryan gets reinvorgoated with every call. He will be connecting one on one with people between calls.
Lauren - call went well, and she is glad that everyone is doing such great work. She is excited for the new website and all of Holly and Ryan’s hard work.
Ashley - very proud of the work being done. Excited about the next newsletter. wants content!
Allison - feels like things got accomplished compared to other conference calls.
Zen - we’re doing some really great things. has been really busy but wants to figure out how to get norcal to socal for the convergence. Excited about Student Empowered Advocacy, wants to tear down the barriers to state level advocacy (If you are interested in this or are interested in planning a trip to the Capitol to do activism, contact Jay Erker at [email protected]). Always open to bringing things back to the board. Board has closed out last year and is looking forward to this year.
Tessa - Call went really well and it’s nice to hear from everyone. Good luck to everyone in the next two weeks.
Sam - Very excited about what this group is doing. wishes that he had more time to dedicate to statewide organization.
Pam - Call went well, great job facilitating.
Joy - Everyone is doing an awesome job and is excited to contact other schools and for the call.
Holly- Getting really excited about the convergence. Ricky Ott is confirmed. Holly wants any ideas - regardless of feasibility - about the website.
Corie - Exicted about the convergence, might go down during spring break to help out with planning.
FINAL NOTES
Any announcements
• Lauren can summarize collective next steps
• Ask if any crucial steps were left out
• So the next Operating Team call will be on February 28th at 7pm
• Until then we encourage all of you to have some one on ones outside this space and with Lauren and I.
• Thank you so much for being on the call everyone! I hope your holiday was fun and relaxing.
