Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
January 17, 2023 – 1200 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Jim Reed
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Satoshi Yasuda
Interpreter: Rita deHart
Meeting Agenda
Roll Call—Martha took attendance by using the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen.
Welcome—Frank Bauer
Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and stated that ARISS accomplished a lot in 2022! It is exciting to know that we have such outstanding volunteers working as a solid team from all five ARISS regions (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, and Europe). It is exciting to see the breadth and depth of what we are accomplishing in education, in human space flight and in amateur radio. We act as one. ISS National Lab and NASA recognized ARISS as a top research and education outreach entity in 2022.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA [Decisional]
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on December 20, 2022, Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Stefan made a motion to accept the minutes. Darin seconded that motion. The minutes were adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
2. 2023 Face to Face meeting status update – Oliver Amend [Informational]
Oliver reminded everyone that the 2023 Face to Face meeting will happen from the 18th of April through the 20th of April. He requests input of items to put on the conference agenda be submitted now or via email. The agenda shows three days of meetings but we may extend into Friday (April 21) to wrap up discussions.
Ciaran stated that Phil Crump has offered to come to the conference to talk about HamTV if we want. Frank said that would be good.
Glenn asked about a list of hotels for the conference. Oliver said he will send that list soon.
Frank said that delegates and officers should reserve Friday, April 21, for strategic discussions of ARISS 2.0. They should adjust their travel plans to stay at the conference through Friday. Oliver stated that ARISS 2.0 is an important concept to discuss.
Regarding ARISS 2.0, Frank said that we are now being called an ISS implementation partner by ISS NL and by NASA. As a ‘facility’ (or implementation partner) on the ISS, ARISS will sometimes be asked by outside organizations to “implement” STEM education opportunities (school contacts) or employ our on-board systems to perform experiments. Some of these activities will totally align with our interests. And some might not. MarconISSta from TU Berlin is an example of one experiment that aligned with our interests. We are actively working with Axiom now to host school contacts and, hopefully, to include our hardware systems on their Space Station Modules. We also see that folks want to use our antennas to receive various signals. The important question we need to ask is: How do we prioritize these opportunities in the future? Which do we select? In some cases, will we have a choice? How will we staff the hardware integration effort required? Or the operations infrastructure needed?
Oliver said that ARISS-I will discuss these aspects on the F2F meeting.
3. Social Media – Jim Reed ARISS-USA Social Media [Informational]
Jim stated that he is the new social media leader for ARISS-USA.He wants to coordinate and standardize social media posts across all regions.
Social media views have increased five-fold recently.His focus in his posts are student contacts, fundraising, and volunteering.
Twitter is the most popular platform for ARISS.Facebook is the second most popular platform with 8500 followers.Instagram has 500 followers.Mastadon also has 500 followers.
We need to standardize what we call ourselves on different platforms.Twitter will refer to us as ARISS-Intl, for ARISS-International.He wants to reserve ARISS Space and ARISS STEM for non-ARISS and educational activities.
Jim said that he is glad to work with the team to maintain a standard branding name.Frank thanked Jim.Glenn thanked him for this great presentation.He continued by saying that you (Jim) want more content for all five ARISS regions.How do we do that?Jim replied that each region should start posting local info about school contacts and this can be picked up internationally.
AOB (Any Other Business)
Frank said that Rosalie compiled a Quarterly Report for our sponsors that Frank presented to NASA last week. That document contained many great photos of happy, excited, and engaged students, however, we cannot share these photos unless we have signed media/talent release forms on file for each student in those photos.
In each quarterly report, we usually focus on two US schools and two international schools. Look at all the educational activities going on! You can see the excitement in the faces of the students at the British School in the Netherlands, the St. Lucia Convent schools, and at the Argentine school in Antarctica. Many times we don’t have signed media release form for contacts like these. This means we can’t post those photos on social media sites, in documents for our sponsors, or materials that help us better communicate our program to others. Please encourage your region’s schools to send signed Talent Release forms in to correct this situation. The release forms are available on the ARISS web page.
Frank thanked Rita for being the interpreter for this meeting. He concluded the meeting by saying “Stay safe. I look forward to seeing you on the 21st of February.”
Next Meeting February 21, 2023 1200 UTC
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
January 17, 2023 – 1200 UTC
Participants:
Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Darin Cowan
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic
David Jordan
Keigo Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Jim Reed
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Satoshi Yasuda
Interpreter: Rita deHart
Meeting Agenda
Roll Call—Martha took attendance by using the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen.
Welcome—Frank Bauer
Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and stated that ARISS accomplished a lot in 2022! It is exciting to know that we have such outstanding volunteers working as a solid team from all five ARISS regions (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, and Europe). It is exciting to see the breadth and depth of what we are accomplishing in education, in human space flight and in amateur radio. We act as one. ISS National Lab and NASA recognized ARISS as a top research and education outreach entity in 2022.
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer, KA3HDO & Martha Muir, W4MSA [Decisional]
For the ARISS-International Monthly Meeting on December 20, 2022, Martha recorded the minutes and distributed the file to ARISS Delegates prior to this ARISS-I meeting. Stefan made a motion to accept the minutes. Darin seconded that motion. The minutes were adopted without dissent and will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS-I webpage.
2. 2023 Face to Face meeting status update – Oliver Amend [Informational]
Oliver reminded everyone that the 2023 Face to Face meeting will happen from the 18th of April through the 20th of April. He requests input of items to put on the conference agenda be submitted now or via email. The agenda shows three days of meetings but we may extend into Friday (April 21) to wrap up discussions.
Ciaran stated that Phil Crump has offered to come to the conference to talk about HamTV if we want. Frank said that would be good.
Glenn asked about a list of hotels for the conference. Oliver said he will send that list soon.
Frank said that delegates and officers should reserve Friday, April 21, for strategic discussions of ARISS 2.0. They should adjust their travel plans to stay at the conference through Friday. Oliver stated that ARISS 2.0 is an important concept to discuss.
Regarding ARISS 2.0, Frank said that we are now being called an ISS implementation partner by ISS NL and by NASA. As a ‘facility’ (or implementation partner) on the ISS, ARISS will sometimes be asked by outside organizations to “implement” STEM education opportunities (school contacts) or employ our on-board systems to perform experiments. Some of these activities will totally align with our interests. And some might not. MarconISSta from TU Berlin is an example of one experiment that aligned with our interests. We are actively working with Axiom now to host school contacts and, hopefully, to include our hardware systems on their Space Station Modules. We also see that folks want to use our antennas to receive various signals. The important question we need to ask is: How do we prioritize these opportunities in the future? Which do we select? In some cases, will we have a choice? How will we staff the hardware integration effort required? Or the operations infrastructure needed?
Oliver said that ARISS-I will discuss these aspects on the F2F meeting.
3. Social Media – Jim Reed ARISS-USA Social Media [Informational]
Jim stated that he is the new social media leader for ARISS-USA.He wants to coordinate and standardize social media posts across all regions.
Social media views have increased five-fold recently.His focus in his posts are student contacts, fundraising, and volunteering.
Twitter is the most popular platform for ARISS.Facebook is the second most popular platform with 8500 followers.Instagram has 500 followers.Mastadon also has 500 followers.
We need to standardize what we call ourselves on different platforms.Twitter will refer to us as ARISS-Intl, for ARISS-International.He wants to reserve ARISS Space and ARISS STEM for non-ARISS and educational activities.
Jim said that he is glad to work with the team to maintain a standard branding name.Frank thanked Jim.Glenn thanked him for this great presentation.He continued by saying that you (Jim) want more content for all five ARISS regions.How do we do that?Jim replied that each region should start posting local info about school contacts and this can be picked up internationally.
AOB (Any Other Business)
Frank said that Rosalie compiled a Quarterly Report for our sponsors that Frank presented to NASA last week. That document contained many great photos of happy, excited, and engaged students, however, we cannot share these photos unless we have signed media/talent release forms on file for each student in those photos.
In each quarterly report, we usually focus on two US schools and two international schools. Look at all the educational activities going on! You can see the excitement in the faces of the students at the British School in the Netherlands, the St. Lucia Convent schools, and at the Argentine school in Antarctica. Many times we don’t have signed media release form for contacts like these. This means we can’t post those photos on social media sites, in documents for our sponsors, or materials that help us better communicate our program to others. Please encourage your region’s schools to send signed Talent Release forms in to correct this situation. The release forms are available on the ARISS web page.
Frank thanked Rita for being the interpreter for this meeting. He concluded the meeting by saying “Stay safe. I look forward to seeing you on the 21st of February.”
Next Meeting February 21, 2023 1200 UTC
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