CSVTK General Assembly 2010
5. October 2010, 19:00 at Novotného lávka
Announced in advance via LinkedIn and email

Minutes recorded by Brad Schmidt, reviewed by Samuel Titěra

Attendees: Patrick Keegan, Pavel Škopík, Samuel Titěra, Fred Williams, Brad Schmidt, Florian Nadge, Pavel Vrecion (7)

Fred calls to get proxy votes for Bartos Goszewski, Michelle Michaels and Anna Rosenberg giving him 4 votes total including his own.
Samuel gets one additional vote by proxy on behalf of Matt Kemp

There are 11 votes present in the room which is half of the 22 paid members. We have a quorum

11-0 vote to approve financial state of CSVTK

Review successes of the first year:
 - 4 blog posts to the site
 - 1 certification seminar given
 - 1 new member as a result of blogpost
  - Guest speaker from SIGHCI at one of our meetings
  - presentations at all of our monthly meetings, attendence averaged 8-10 per event including non-members and over 100 attended meetings throughout the year.

11-0 approval of agenda

11-0 Approval of Auditors approval

11-0 approve termination of all current officers before electing new ones.

11-0 approve open show of hands election

President Pavel Vrecion 9 votes Samuel Titěra 2. Pavel V. is the new President

VP1: Pavel Škopík 6 votes, Aliya Kurmanbayeva 4 votes,  Patrick Keegan1 vote. Pavel Škopík is first VP.

VP2: Fred Williams 9 votes, Patrick 2 votes. Fred is VP2

Secretary: Brad Schmidt 8 votes, Samuel 3 votes.

Treasurer: Samuel 9 votes, Aliya 2 votes. Samuel is the new treasurer.

Patrick Keegan and Matt Kemp are the new auditors by 11-0 vote.

Objectives for 2010-2011:

 * Conduct an anonymous salary survey. Details for implementation TBD
 * Continued monthly presentations/lectures (at same time and location if possible. eg: 2nd Wednesday of the month 19h at??)
 * Content goal: 1 article to the website per member. Samuel offers admin rights to those who want it.

Presidents vision for new year:

 - 200 paying members by next year, 20 active members.
 - Diversify current SW centric group to include medical, scientific, CAD/PLC and industrial and academic writers as well as technical trade journalists

Patrick proposes motto: "Better communicating of difficult ideas"

Long term goal: to increase the visibility and recognition of the tech writing profession in CR.

Proposal to translate/have newsletter as bilingual (CZ/EN)

Vote 11-0 to adjourn.

Post meeting Pub consumption: 9 litres.