<div>Thanks for taking the minutes. Sorry I was not able to join, my house is very chaotic with three kids at home and trying to work full-time so I was fighting with my baby to take a nap during the meeting. I will try to make it to the next one.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:25 PM Brian Buhrow <<a href="mailto:buhrow@nfbcal.org">buhrow@nfbcal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello. Here are the minutes from the March 28, 2020 meeting.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Brian Buhrow, President, NFB San Jose Chapter, NFB of California<br>
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Meeting was convened via Zoom, due to Corona Virus, by President Brian<br>
Buhrow at 3PM on Saturday 03/28/2020.<br>
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1. Attendees: Jamie Principato, Nanci Amolsch, Brian Buhrow, Tim Elder,<br>
John Vandervort, Kyle Garcia, Brian Quintana and one member from the At Large Chapter who<br>
lives in the East Bay.<br>
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2. Brian thanked Jamie for hosting the Zoom meeting.<br>
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3. Discussed the agenda item we didn't have today. We were to have a<br>
person come to our meeting from Samsung to discuss the possibility of<br>
making an application for the blind. Brian discussed the notion of trying<br>
to gently, but firmly, persuade him to think about how he might go about<br>
getting Samsung to make its existing product lines, particularly its line<br>
of home appliances, more accessible. The NFB has been trying to get the<br>
Access Board to promulgate a set of accessibility standards for home<br>
appliances. Currently, this is Bill H.R.3929. Brian will report on its<br>
status in a future piece of e-mail.<br>
When we know we will meet again, we will reach out to Samsung to see<br>
if they are still interested in attending one of our meetings.<br>
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4. Last month, Brian brought up the idea of trying to form groups of<br>
members, and non-members, who want to get together to learn a particular<br>
skill. Ronit said she'd never barbecued before on a gril and would like to<br>
learn how to do it. Jamie reiterated that she'd not done it either, as<br>
did several others at today's meeting. We will take it as an action item<br>
to plan a meeting this summer, or when ever we can get together again, to<br>
have a barbecue at a park and teach each other how to grill food.<br>
Other things folks said they wanted to learn to do:<br>
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O Learn how to change a tire on a car.<br>
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O Learn how to make table legs for a table.<br>
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O Learn how to solder.<br>
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I know there were other ideas that I'm failing to mention. Please<br>
feel free to add ideas to this thread so we can figure out the best way to<br>
orchestrate a teachine methodology.<br>
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5. John Vandervort would like the chapter to fund raise. This is a very<br>
important thing for us to be doing. If you have ideas on what we might do<br>
to raise funds that would be fun and, hopefully, profitable, please send<br>
them along.<br>
We will discuss them at our next meeting.<br>
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6. If you haven't done so, please listen to the two Presidential releases<br>
from March 2020. The second release concerns the steps NFB is taking to<br>
work with the changes brought by the Corona Virus. As of this writing, the<br>
National Center is closed and no face-to-face meetings are occurring at<br>
this time. There will be a live call in session on Thursday April 2, at<br>
5PM Pacific, 8PM Eastern, where members can call in to listen to the<br>
national leadership discuss how we can continue our work of outreach and<br>
advocacy in the time of Corona Virus. Details for this meeting will be<br>
posted in a separate e-mail.<br>
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7. right now, our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Saturday April<br>
18, 2020 at 3:00PM. Given that it is highly unlikely we'll be back to<br>
business as usual by that date, it is most probable that we'll have that<br>
meeting via Zoom as well. However, we'll post details as the date<br>
approaches.<br>
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8. Adjourn.<br>
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