Sunday  1pm – 5pm Home of Larry Roeder

26128 Talamore Drive, South Riding (Chantilly), VA 20152

Email: roederaway@yahoo.com   Phone 703-867-2056, Website:  www.foreignpolicyforchange.org

Dress Informal:  This will be an outdoor bar-b-que.  Feel free to bring drink, salads and food to be bar-bqued  If weather deteriorates, the meeting will be held inside.

1.       Introductions and Agreement to the Agenda. Larry Roeder

2.      Pilot Project Involving Dulles Airport.   The Working Group has been exploring how to enhance America’s image abroad, including a pilot project at Dulles Airport to improve the experience of entering foreigners..  Larry Roeder and Tim Buchholtz are managing this project and need volunteers for what is expected to be an expanding project.  Speaking at the event will Sally Harvey of Traveler’s Aid, a possible partner agency.

3.      Update on the Somalia Project:  The Working Group has been discussing a joint project with USIP, the United States Institute for Peace which could involve two joint-events.  Separately, there have also been discussions about doing a Peace Rally in 2009 or next summer.  The later idea has political, financial and legal implications which need to be fully understood before we move forward.  Mustafa Omar and Larry Roeder will lead this part of the agenda so that the entire Working group is aware of what has been happening explore where the Working Group wants to go in the future.

4.      Future Topics:  Led by Larry Roeder, Bring recommendations on future foreign policy topics, e.g .Afghanistan, .climate change, human rights, the spread of democracy.  All topics are open.  As an example, Basant will now focus her attention on opportunities for local civic projects that relate to foreign affairs. This will be an entire new project to be discussed in the June member’s meeting.

5.      Update on the Working Group website.  Per the request of the working group, we have migrated our website to a dedicated url called www.Foreignpolicyforchange.org.  Before coming to the meeting, please study the content.  This agenda item will take place indoors.  Larry will discuss the history of the website, its content and links to MBO and NING.  Before moving forward, we want to determine the Working Group’s views on the existing website to determine which content should remain as part of the existing website and, going forward, the new website"   We also want to know what would be in the public area and what in the internal area. It was agreed at the last member’s meeting in April that Aaron Edlow would coordinate a new look and feel for the site and add new functionality.  This will be the topic of a separate discussion at the June Members’ meeting. In the mean time, Aaron will announce the creation of a webteam in May and needs volunteers to join.  As with all of the teams, Larry will continue to act as overall working group coordinator, in order to make sure the different teams fit together in a strategic way.  Some issues will be coordinated with him, others with the working group as a whole.

6.      Venue and time of the June Meeting