President tasks: 1/12/98 - 2/28/98
- 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
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