Date: 27th December 2006
Time: start 10:30 pm - end 12:30 am
Attendance: Muiz, Jaa, Hassan, Thaa, Annu

Purpose of Meeting:
This meeting was held to follow up on what was discussed on previous meeting and to brainstorm about various ideas floated by CC members.

Minutes:

• Availability of minutes. Annu raised the question whether to have the meetings available to the general public or for members only. Decided that minutes should be available to everyone who wants to view them.
• Checked whether Eid/New Year greeting cards have been sent as decided earlier. Jaa confirmed to post them as soon as Post Office reopens. Eid greetings and New Year greetings to be put up on the website.
• Forum. Discussed member registration and registration to the forum and photo gallery. Decided to put Go-Teach project, voluntary sub-committees and fund raising events up for discussion on the forum so that members can give their ideas and comments. Jaa agreed to get around to implementing the registration A.S.A.P. Jaa to add registered CC members as moderators on the forum. Annu/Thaa raised the issue of some members being unable to register due to problems with their student accounts. Noted the need for alternative/manual registration allowance facility. Jaa assured provision for manual registration within the system by the time it goes live.
• Eid celebrations. Muiz raised the issue of how Eid celebrations competition will be judged. Discussed prizes and decided that all participating teams should send in a report and pictures of the event to the CC and that the CC members will discuss and decide on a winner.
• Rosemont. Muiz informed that Dr. Shafiu will be handing in the updated Rosemont regulations in two weeks. It was decided that a news article should be published on website to inform all members that the one month period for commenting on Rosemont will start only after Dr. Shafiu finishes in the report and its published on the site.
• Website articles. All CC members agreed to participate in writing articles and hand them over to the webmaster (Jaa), who will do the final publishing work. This is to reduce the workload for Jaa. This way the workload is divided equally among the members of C.C. Members agreed to write reports about events, activities etc. happening in their area.
• Contact details of Mr. Hamid Sodig, Ministry of Education, were handed over to Muiz so that he can contact him about MSA budget.
• It was agreed upon that all CC members should be aware of all communication relating to MSA as it will reduce confusion afterwards.
• Muiz raised the issue of following up on the updates to the MSA constitution. Muiz to get a digital copy of the updated constitution from Fazeel, make it ready to be published on the website and put on forum for member input.
• MSA Register. Agreed to continue on with the CC attempt to compile a member register.
• Financial reports to be obtained from Naaz as soon as Ahmed Shareef hands it to her. Reports to be forwarded to the Ministry of Education and published on website thereafter.
• Fund raising. Fund raising to be discussed in separate, dedicated meetings early Jan. Jaa suggested for preliminary work regarding fund raising to be started immediately. Annu and Thaa agreed to check out some places in London and to get cost estimates on venues for the Maldivian Film night. Muiz agreed to find out information about renting Dharubaaruge or some place else for the Seminar to be held in the Maldives. Other ideas to be explored.
• Wrapped up meeting after setting up date for the next meeting.

Taken by: Hassan Khalid (Secretary)