CCSC-NW Regional Board meeting
Saturday, October 9, 2004
13:15 – 14:30, Willamette University

Board Members Present:
	David Wolff (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Jenny Orr, (Willamette U.),
	George Hauser (Pacific Lutheran U.),
	Phil Prins (Seattle Pacific U.),
	Mike Panitz (Cascadia Community College),
	Carrol Zander (U. Washington Bothell),
	Fritz Reuhr, (Willamette U.),
	Brent Wilson (George Fox U.),
	and miscelaneous guests from the conference.

PP opened  the meeting at 13:15

1.PP: Introductions
1.Current Officers
2.Future Officers: Panitz, Hamil
3.Board Treasurer and Editor up for election in the spring
2.CZ: Update on 2005
1.Things going well
2.Conference committee:	
1.Conference: Carol Zander, University of Washinton Bothell
2.Site: Mike Panitz, Cascadia Community College
3.Papers: Sharon Tuttle, Humboldt State  University
4.Panels & Tutorials: Adair Dingle, Seattle  University
5.Registration: George Mobus, University of Washinton Tacoma
6.Program: Rob Bryant, Gonzaga University
7.Speakers: Bill Erdly, University of Washington Bothell
8.Vendors:
9.Student Posters: Arnie Berger, University of Washington Bothell
10.Webmaster: Ed Gellenbeck, Central Washington University
3.PP: Brent is THE database person
1.DB is up and running
2.Registration chair must coordinate with DB chair (Brent)
4.PP: Dates and Locations of future conferences
1.2005 at Bothel on 10/14-15/2005
2.2006 at EWU
3.2007 at Linnfield
4.2008 at somewhere in NW Washington
5.For authors we now have
1.Electronic Submission
2.Document Templates
3.Electronic Reviewing
6.RB: We are one of only three regions to get more than 100 at a conference.  What else can we do to get more people?
7.PP: Paper quality is up due to large number of submissions
8.General discussion on new things to do:
1.Student papers 
1.More than half in favor of this
2.None opposed
2.Programming contest
1.Few supported this; it's a lot of work
2.Eastern does a contest and could help if we do it
3.Question: How can we schedule things to facilitate student participation as well as papers and programming?
4.MF: Can we do something non-competitive instead of a contest?
5.MD-T: Can we open things up to "demonstrations?"
6.PP: Could we do two levels of papers/presentations?
7.FR: Could we do a collaborative project like the mathematical modeling contest?
8.How can we continue this discussion?  Everything suggested has many problems: bulletin boards, mailing lists, newsgroups, ...
9.DW: What about adding a nifty assignments session, perhaps in Birds of a Feather?
10.PP: Send all your ideas to himself at pprins@spu.edu.