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Meeting Notes from Tucson SPIN organizational meeting 01/27/00
Gene Hall opened the meeting and Introductions were made around the table.
Communication
 | General discussion was that there are a lot of companies producing software in Tucson. |
| Bob Keys believed that the Daily Star had a list of top software companies, he offered
to track down a copy. |
| Discussion also continued that the Tucson Business section may offer free advertising
for our type of organization. |
| Anthony King offered website and domain name through his consulting company. |
Meetings
| The agreement was for meetings to be once per month on Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. |
| Elaine Fisher offered meeting room at Sunquest (4801 E. Broadway). The regular
conference room has seating for around 40. Also, Sunquest has recently purchased Charles
Restaurant (Wilmot & Speedway) which has a larger meeting room. Elaine said that she
would have to check on evening use of the rooms. |
| Anthony King offered Ventana Conference Room, which has seating for about 20. |
| Wally Pipp and Gene Hall agreed to check at U of A for alternate sites. |
| Agreement was made that Food would be purchased. Email RSVPs would determine the amount.
Donation for food would be made at the door. |
| We agreed that the first meeting should be in March. |
| Wally Pipp "volunteered" to speak, using the forum as a dry-run for the
presentation he will be giving at the Software Technology Conference in May 2000 in Salt
Lake City, Utah. The title of his presentation is: "Software Process Improvement
Pays". |
Committee Assignments
| Kurt McMillen and Ginger Tonkin-Sugimoto agreed to work on the Charter. |
| Mike Palmer and Tom Lienhard agreed to work on designing a Website. |
| Wally Pipp and Cindy Mansfield agreed to work on Program Planning |
| Gene and Cindy will continue to be co-coordinators of the Tucson SPIN until elections
can be held. |
Next meeting
| Another coordination meeting will be on Thursday, Feb 10th, 6-8 p.m. at Ventana Medical
Systems (3865 N. Business Center Drive). |
| $5.00 will be requested from each to cover food. |
| We agreed that only those already involved will be invited to attend this meeting. |
Membership
| Wally Pipp and Gene Hall agreed to check U of A and Pima College for potential members. |
| Wally Pipp and Kurt McMillen agreed to check if any coworkers had contacts with
potential members at Fort Huachuca. |
Miscellaneous topics
| Everyone agreed that topics at the meetings should not be exclusively "Level
4" topics. Everyone can gain from "Level 2" topics, also. |
| Everyone agreed that we wanted to have topics that could "generate interest"
within our own companies. We don't want this group to be exclusively SEPG folks, but to
include software developers and software professionals. |
| Gene Hall agreed to see about financial support from Raytheon. |
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