Agenda
Meeting: May 26, 2013 8:00 pm Eastern Time, 5:00 pm Pacific Time
(meetings are generally the fourth Sunday of each month)
Conference Number: 605 475-4333  code 919728
Webconference Site: Joinme.com (used only if necessary, meeting number given on phone)
Committee Members

Invited Members 
CHAIR -     CJ Rhoads (cjrhoads@taijiquanenthusiasts.org)
VICE CHAIR Gary Giamboi (garysbusiness@gmail.com)
SECRETARY Matthew F. Komelski (komelski@vt.edu)
Eric Imbody (eimbody@earthlink.net)
Kathleen Levac (kathy@relaxedandalert.com)
Alan Graham (info@alangrahamdc.com)
Lauro Medina Jr.  (laurojr4@yahoo.com) 
Maryann P. DiEdwardo  (diedwardo7@Rcn.com)
Invited Guests 
Robert Brown (b2bolin@olypen.com)
Garth Henry <'hgarth60@yahoo.com'>

(Friends of R&E committee)
Michael Hopkings McComiskey (mmccom1946@aol.com)
Mark R. Reinhart NMT, MMQ (tuneup@ptd.net); 
Ali Wolf (info@nqa.org)  
Shirley Hildreth (qigongforwellness@cox.net)
Mark Melchiorre (mark@melchiorre.com)
Vicki Dello Joio (vicki@wayofjoy.com)
Tom Rogers (fiveninechi@gmail.com)
Annie Roberts (qigonghealing@comcast.net)
Roger Jahnke (DrJahnke@HealthAction.net)
Bernard Shannon (Bernard@medicalqigong.org)
Chris Bouguyon (Chris@simplyAware.com)
Michael Winn (winn.dao@earthlink.net)
Susi Rosinski <reikisusirosinski@yahoo.com>

Meeting Topics
(We will quickly go over all topics, spending only a moment or two, to be sure we want to cover them in detail in today's meeting before beginning any discussion on any one topic.)
Committee Membership Invitation
The chair officially extends an invitation to join the committee to Robert Brown.  He has attended at least three meetings and has been active in some of the projects.  If Robert accepts, he will be immediately voted in.
Re-Approval of Committee Membership Policy
The membership policy was approved at the November 2012 meeting, but the wording was never taken out of the minutes and put into its own document.  When CJ did that, she found some minor grammatical errors, and would like the committee to re-approve the membership policy with the revised wording.  (Nothing material has changed).
Committee Website
When the NQA board revises the NQA website, it has been discussed that the NQA Research and Education Committee would get their own space to post information.  In the meantime, CJ has tried a couple of different locations for committee information, none of which have been very successful.  As a short term stopgap, CJ will be uploading all the committee files (agendas, minutes, policies, etc) to an FTP site on the HPLConsortium.com website.  The link to access it is:
ftp://hplconsortium.com/
The username is nqare and the password is NQA%20re 
You can download a free program called Filezilla to get to it (https://filezilla-project.org/), or use any other FTP client you wish to use. 
International Research Agenda Progress
-WikiProjects discussion  (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Multidisciplinary/Qigong)
-Prework: Please review information on WikiProject Guidelines  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject)
-Please consider what you think we should put in our Wikipedia updates & discussions 
-Tasks for this Wiki Project:
1.	Take each of the topics in this list and create the link for the Wikipedia pages that would link to it.
2.	Fill in the rest of the fields regarding why we want to start this project.
3.	List the people on the "team" and define roles and responsibilities.
4.	Set a date to actually create the template to start the project. 
5.	Assign someone to copy the template and start filling in the basic information.
6.	Assign someone to go into each of the related fields and post the cross reference to the other terms on our list.
7.	Demonstrate how to do these things.
-Collaborative Relationships - time to work on this?  WikiProjects page will be up and running by next month.  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmE2KHQFlfsddGlOODA5cFBEUzY0VUJfOGxvRVotTkE

Annual Conference
-Any plans for R&E activities?  
-Anything happening on Sunday evening?  Can committee meet in person?
Education: Direction and Projects - (Gary & Eric)
-Further Progress on Teleconference Education session
-Any other activities planned?

Potential Parking Lot Items to retire: (Items on hold, either waiting for a decision or some previous project to be completed).  
	Article Co-Author Wanted (Is there any interest in finishing this?)
	Grant Opportunities and NQA R&E positioning  (anyone care about this?)
		http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/grantix.htm
	Attracting Researchers and Academics - - no response yet from Board (shall we assume no news means no?)
	NQA Conference in July 2013 - response from Conference Committee  - no. 

Check Minutes From Previous Month for To-Do's prior to meeting
NEXT MEETING: April 28, 2013 8:00 pm Eastern Time, 5:00 pm Pacific Time
(meetings are generally the fourth Sunday of each month)