Meeting on Saturday February 7. (Minutes by Manoj)
The following people attended the meeting:
Amrish, Vijay, Shankar, Sumathi, Vinay,
Hansa, Subashree, Ravi Gangavarapu, Raghu,
Vikas, Sridhar, Amit, Pragati, Manoj.
1. Asha Fellowship proposal for Anu and Krishna.
Sridhar presented the Anu/Krishna proposal, which was presented in
the last meeting. In the last meeting it was agreed in principle
to support them. It was discussed again and those present agreed
with that decision. It was decided to fully fund the Fellowship
for one year, or until Asha Fellowship group decided to fund them.
Asha London is also looking into this proposal. Asha Fellowship
support usually last for 2 or 3 years.
2. SUPPORT.
Sumathi made a presentation on her visit to SUPPORT, and a
proposal from them. The chapter shall consider various aspects
of the project, with out now considering funding their proposal
ourselves. Everyone should send any questions to Sumathi, who
will try out find the answers. We shall discuss this project again
at a later meeting.
3. Asha Scholarship
Sridhar updated the chapter on some confusion prevailing in sending
funds to Asha Scholarship Project (run by Asha Chennai). Asha Princeton
has been acting as a conduit to funds for other Asha Chennai project,
from other Asha sources. This has resulted in some confusion, and we
have not yet sent $1000 sanctioned in February 2003. This will be sent
out soon. There is also a proposal for continued support, which needs to
be discussed.
It was decided that our chapter cannot be officially involved with other
projects of Asha Chennai, and we should not have money from other
chapters/individuals send to these projects via our chapter. Also
Sridhar explained to the chapter that Rajesh, as the steward/Asha Star
has arranged funds from different sources for the Asha Scholarship
project. This money can be considered Asha Princeton's contribution,
and can be routed through the chapter's accounts.
4. Due to lack of time, it was decided to postpone the discussion on
Chilla and Manoj's site visit, to the next meeting.