[SJAAboard] January 19,2008 - Draft Meeting Minutes

[Gary Mitchell]

Mark Wagner wrote:

> Rob Hawley (SJAA) wrote:
> 
>>That is a good point.  I need to think about this for a bit.  We need something that will create a maintenance-free permanent log with writeonly
>>access.
>>  
> 
> 
> Perhaps a reasonable approach to documenting reports and form data in 
> the board minutes would be to refer to them by footnote.
> 
> The footnote could lead to a pdf document of that footnote number.  Example:
> 
> If footnote 1 referred to the loaner telescope status report, and it was 
> for the board meeting of January 19, 2008, the link could be to:
> 
> http://www.sjaa.net/fn080119.1.pdf  ( fn = footnote, 080119 = board 
> meeting date, 1 = footnote number)
> 
> That would get around potential 55 character limit Craig suggested.
> 
> I'd also suggest an  HTML document whenever possible, as they are 
> usually more space efficient than a pdf.

Straight text is even more efficient.  ;)

In the old days, one would simply attach the document to the written
on paper minutes.  It seems the electronic version needs a little fine
tuning.

Gary