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Participants

Jessica Trites Rolle

Nikki Marshall

DANIEL DANFORD

Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)

R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed)

Agenda/Minutes

#	Topic (Leader)	Desired Outcome Pre-Meeting Notes and Links to Supporting Resources	Meeting Minutes
1	Anti-Trust (Project Manager or Meeting Facilitator)	Each participant indicates that he/she understands and agrees to abide by the AgGateway Antitrust Policy, or leaves the meeting.	All agreed to abide by antitrust guidelines.
2	Minutes Taker	A minutes taker has been selected.	Jessica Trites Rolle will take minutes.
3	Meeting Minutes	Unapproved minutes of previous meetings are approved. 2020-03-19 Communications Sub-Committee Meeting	M/S/P
4	Open Tasks	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) will finalize the Ag Lab/Soil Testing flyer R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed) to complete ADAPT Timescopes Implementation Note Jessica Trites Rolle - contact Nathan Stein, Pix4D, to discuss Nathan or Pix4D (re)joining	See activity below
5	Pending Action List	Communications Sub-Committee Pending Materials Development List Review list again and add new items (if any) Identify final priorities from pending materials list and move to the next agenda as action items
	Current Activity Key Discussion Items	Timescopes Implementation Note "Guide to business and developer information/tools" (where to find, what's available, etc.) Review ADAPT website during call: identify initial changes to move to "matching" main AgGateway website Infographic: 1 and 2-page documents Key for current AgGateway volunteers to use with company leadership for keeping AgGateway in the budget - critical in this down economy with budget-cutting, cancellations, virtual-only conferences, etc. Infographics and accompanying stories with targeted audiences in mind "What AgGateway has accomplished and connected" AgGateway Stakeholders and Deliverables Map v2.pdf "What AgGateway is/does (vs what it is NOT/does NOT do)" Turn the above into one-page or two-page doc that show the work AgGateway does, all the areas it touches and the cost-benefit of EACH action - the VALUE proposition in detail and story form: For the Infographic portion, use illustrator to create In the supporting 'story' portion, give detail that tells the cost-benefit Can use for current members and new/recruitment - people are looking at budgets and costs in closer than ever, we need to defend our value	R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed) has two interns who will be able to assist with ADAPT implementation notes and other ADAPT documentation work and "guide to business and developer information/tools" activities. ADAPT website: adaptframework.org Update news items - keep it fresh monthly limit number of news items listed to the most current 3 to 5 only - Jessica Trites Rolle contact Ben Craker (Unlicensed) to discuss Infographic - get latest version START WITH (separate documents): "What AgGateway is/does (vs what it is NOT/does NOT do)" Allow members to have short, clear discussion with others in organization Allow members/staff to talk with prospective members "What ADAPT is/is not" what is AgGateway? who is part of the org? what is it working on? what's already done? how do you use the tools? C-suite/Exec versus technical/detailed versus farmers Different industry area (rail, grain, equipment, irrigation, etc.) means different focus meet the person where they are! tailor focus to what a prospective or current member is trying to fix/solve/accomplish Create suite of views members can pull from: general irrigation - PAIL proposition value canvases (borrow from that work) soils (also has proposition value canvases crop protection/seed company view FMIS view etc
6	Event Calendar and Speaking Engagements	Communications Sub-Committee Conference/Event DRAFT Calendar 2020 Review calendar, add any new items (virtual or potential future in-person conferences) Items due in April: Paper on soils (Corina Ardelean and R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed) working on) - may request proofreading assistance ASABE paper on PAIL implementation (usual team plus someone from ASABE and Irrigation Consortium) ONGOING: Jessica Trites Rolle to provide events to Nikki Marshall for SmartSheet calendar when someone is presenting/hosting a booth and including AgGateway in the discussion	International Conference on Precision Agriculture moved to June 2022 ASABE annual meeting - will monitor to see if postponed AgGateway European Region - meeting on ADAPT AEF Plugfest canceled
8	New Business	Discuss items not covered above.
9	New Tasks	The group has reviewed what tasks were assigned during the meeting.
10	Next Meeting	The group agrees to the next meeting date and time.	14 May 2020 at 11 a.m. US Central Time
11	Adjournment	The meeting is adjourned.	30 Apr 2020 at 12 p.m. US Central Time

2020-04-30 Communications Sub-Committee Meeting

Meeting Information

Agenda/Minutes