ASHA: Meeting minutes for 11th Feb

[Subramanya Sastry <sastry@cs.wisc.edu>]

Attendees: Annapurna, Chandru, Charu, Kamal, Meena, Murali, Navin, Param,
           Subbu, Venki, Vidhi, Vidya, Vineeta, Vishal, Vinod

- Next week, Naveen will give an update about hooking up with SECC.
- Vineeta presented some preliminary quotes for T-shirts and polos.
   She'll follow up on this and provide more information at a later
   date.  There was also some discussion about whether to go with
   100% cotton or with 50% cotton T-shirt/Polos.  It was felt that
   it would be good if the T-shirts are ready before the Asha conference
   in June/July.
- AID-Milwaukee is organizing a L.Subramaniam and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
   concert sometime in April/May.  We decided to sell tickets here at
   Madison without any guarantees about the number of tickets we'll sell.
   We'll let AID handle all the publicity.  We'll use any publicity
   material they have in publicizing the concert at Madison.
- Vidhi discussed her impressions of her visit to the various Asha project
   sites during her recent vacation in India.  She had been to the
   Little Stars' School at Varanasi.  She felt that Asha Pandey was
   doing a great job, but was having a lot of difficulty in getting
   funds released (they are right now stuck up due to to some foreign
   exchange regulations).  Solutions are being worked with the help of
   Sandeep Pandey.  She also discussed her impressions and opinions of
   the Ballia project in UP and the AID-Bihar (not to be confused with
   Association for India's Development) project.  This also generated
   a lot of discussion about the project and about Asha's ideology in
   general - about the nature of projects we fund - formal/non-formal.
   Vidhi felt that most of the good work being done in the field of
   education was in the area of non-formal education.