When and Where
July 29th 2006, Shoreline park, Mountain View, CA
Organizer
Srinivas Hanabe
Who Attended
20 people of various batches from 1998 - 2002.
Meeting Agenda
- Assess current growth and discuss future growth strategies.
- Discuss social/business events that anyone is interested in
hosting and publicity for these events.
Minutes
We had our second meeting last week. 20 people showed up - a jump from
the week before where 15 attended. We discussed ideas on how we could
go about building/improving the alumni chapter here. Thanks to everyone
who came and contributed their ideas. Here is the summary -
- Alumni members see value in bringing influential people to talk
to the alumni.
- People want to get information on career choices. It would be
great to be able to talk to someone who has already done what your goal
is. Sometimes it just enhances perspectives on whatever the current
career path is. We should start a career perspectives program for the
alumni members.
- It will be good to have bios of all members on a website.
- BITS alumni video conference with professors and school execs in
India regularly. They have a strong alumni here. We have to learn some
lessons from their organization.
- All questions from students in NITK should be directed to the web
forum - nitkforum.org/smf.
This will be the tool to use for the student
mentoring program.
- We should have meetings once a month from now on. The meetings
should have some events -boating etc., after the brainstorming.
We have two social events coming up - one is on Sat Aug 05 (boating)
and the next is on Sat Aug 12th.
We are also putting together a career initiatives program. Stay tuned
for this announcement.