Attendees: Farrukh Najmi, Abid Hussain, Waseem Ullah, Zubair Niazi, Raza Khan, Mahmood Bashir
- Old business
- None discussed
- Review minutes
- July 2, 2019 meeting minutes approved
- July 6, 2019 meeting minutes approved
- Proposal for creating an Endowment Fund
- Discussion whether to invest in low risk bonds or indexed funds
- General agreement to talk to Javed Iqbal H/1978 to get advice on options
- Discussion on whether to charge a membership fee
- Zubair shared that July 6 annual meeting attendees felt we should not charge a membership fee at this time and instead focus on increasing membership
- We may revisit membership fee issue in future but deferring for now
- All features requested by AANA were implemented for new registration form and page by Waseem’s team with high quality. Kudos to Waseem and his team
- Suggestion to compare notes with the Abdalian Association of Canada web site
- Zubair will be calling members to update their registration
- Farrukh will work to get screen sharing for next meeting
- Farrukh will send a third email to get entry liaison
- Need to use an issue tracker to track tasks for pweb site in a prioritized mannerWeb committee & communication: Following tasks were identified in priority order
- Discussing on AANA local Chapters
- Need a web site page listing the registered chapters and their liaison (Farrukh to create)
- Possible chapters: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, Chicago, DC, South Florida, North Florida, Greater Boston
- Invite chapter liaison to attend AANA meetings
- Meeting adjourned at 10:10 PM
- Next Meeting: September 5th, 2019 9PM Eastern