[GSA Council] Motion for GSA accessibility

[Fatemeh Ahmadi]

Hello all,

I am also against. As mentioned previously in our Policy Committee meeting
this is not an efficient way to get more students involved.

Regards,
Fatemeh





On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Angelica Restrepo <
angelica.restrepo1992 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Against.
>
> (I know that you have been working hard on this Rouzbeh. Unfortunately, I
> think that before adopting a motion allowing a podcast to be broadcasted,
> there should be a set of guidelines that defines what kind of information
> can be disseminated and how — we wouldn’t want it to turn into an opinion
> platform).
>
> Thanks,
> Angie
>
> On May 3, 2018, at 7:55 PM, Rouzbeh Ghouchani <ghoochani.roozbeh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> The point is that GSA members who are graduate students might not have
> time to attend the GSA council meetings while they are productive in their
> studies during the day. And as far as I understood by talking with some of
> the GSA members, some of them do not completely understand what is going on
> in the minutes which is so brief in my opinion. By releasing the podcast,
> they can listen and well-understand about GSA council decisions in their
> liesure time, like at night, or when they are on their way to home or to
> school.
>
> I did not mean recording the meetings which was rejected by the Policy
> Committee, I said GSA can explain the minutes in plain language for GSA
> members to listen in their liesure time.
>
> I am open to other solutions.
>
> Best,
> Rouzbeh
>
> On Thu, 3 May 2018, 14:29 Geoff Weissbach, <geoff.weissbach at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry, I'm against this motion in terms of use of resources, we would
>> be asking them to do podcasts of meeting minutes for meetings students
>> don't even care enough to attend, instead of actual improvements to house
>> management and student activities.
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2018, 1:58 PM meeting facilitator, <
>> meetingfacilitator.gsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Motion:
>>> BIRT to improve GSA accessibility, the executives do research on the
>>> other student organizations on campus or elsewhere in terms of
>>> accessibility. Provide specific emails and business cards for directors, do
>>> meet and greet in all Faculty buildings. Prepare podcasts in which the GSA
>>> council meeting minutes are explained in plain language for GSA members at
>>> most 10 days after each council meeting, and validate the CSU media model.
>>>
>>> Moved: Rouzbeh
>>> Second: ?
>>> For:
>>> Against:
>>> Abstain:
>>>
>>> Instructions: Someone please second this. Also, reply back with For,
>>> Against or Abstain. I will close this motion on Tuesday 8th of May.
>>>
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*Yours Sincerely,*
*Fatemeh Ahmadi*
*M.Sc Student at Concordia University *
*Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering *
*http://fatemeh-a.com/ <http://fatemeh-a.com/>*
*f_hmadi at encs.concordia.ca <f_hmadi at encs.concordia.ca>*
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