- Responds to AW-Germany, telling them that we are not interested in organizing petition drives, but that we would sign any petitions that are compatible with our mission - Calls Suzanne Kassem. - Drafts a short statement of support on the European Troika mission in Algeria. - Drops from bylaws the two requirements of Party and Government from the membership provisions - Adds to the by-laws the 2-weeks notice for BOD resignations. - Checks on taxes situation. - Send mail to Lamine about the cartoons. Direct mail to AWI. - Contact Larbi and Djerroud. - Will issue a message to algeria-net every Monday. - Will update the tasks list every Friday. - Write a letter to Senator Leahy ("we appreciate, applaud ..." urge them to pursue their action). This will be our Public Statement for the week. - Call for action (related to Leahy). Give a form letter to people, and put a copy on our web. - Send a message to CBS to ask them for a transcript of 60 minutes - Send a message to Miss Magazine to get an article from Salima Ghezali - Send a statement to CBS incorporating Karim Boughida's feedback - Send information to l'Humanite - Respond to a few more inquiries - Get agreement from the BOD on a general statement to send to people requesting information on who we are, what we do ... - Call the Berkeley law school to: 1 - Get basic info about asylum process, to be posted on our web page 2 - Tell them about us Issue: they deal with human rights, but we need advise on copyright and other practical things. - Front web page: redesign it. Trim it down. With only 3 links: 1 - Link to items of interest for the outside world (owned by Karim) 2 - Link to an administrative page (bylaws, ... - owned by Abdenour) 3 - Link to a Library page ( archives, scholars, ... - owned by Ahmed) - Work on a new archives page (long term) - Put together the first version of the administrative page Abdenour will take it on from there - Put a picture about Algeria in the background of web page (Ahmed's suggestions: white background, no images) - Send a list of links to Hammoudi about how to petition to the IRS to receive a non profit status - Test the AWI membership application form - Send a response by the end of the week to Ali Hannat Idea: Ali to think about bylaws to add chapters structure No committment, no discouragement - Send to Hammoudi the URL of the IRS (tax exempt matters) - Build Karim's homepage - Think about how to organise archives versus activities in the Library web page