[GSA Council] Motion for GSA accessibility

[Parth Chandarana]

Abstain

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 10:03 AM Krupa Rajani <kripa.rajani92 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Against.
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:35 AM Fatemeh Ahmadi <
> ahmadi.fatemeh2011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
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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/>*
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