Committee: Outreach

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Committee Charter:

  • Establish relationships with government institutions to gain support for vtSDA.
  • Establish relationships with educational institutions and students to establish an effective workforce development system in the State of Vermont to support the software development industry.
  • Conduct research to implement these activities.
  • Identify grants for funding vtSDA activities and administer the implementation of these grants.

Board Contact:

Larry Keyes
lkeyes@mxdesign.net

Subcommittees:

Research
State Advisory
Workforce development

Priorities:

Research Sub-Committee:

  1. Find Vermont software companies
  2. Find Vermont software professionals
  3. Bucket for ideas that have not been dealt with
  4. Solicit relevant class programs for vtSDA research
  5. Find out what other states are doing for software companies
  6. Build Vermont Software Industry Directory
  7. Keeper of demographic information
  8. Annual Survey
  9. Evaluate Member Financing Review idea
  10. Peer review of software companies

State Advisory Committe

  1. Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) written
  2. Economic Analysis and Reporting of data vtSDA gathered
  3. Calling Kevin Dorn and others at Economic Development
  4. Outreach to Vermont and Federal legislators
  5. Gather information on Vermont State sponsored programs for vtSDA companies
  6. Software industry research done by state and feds
  7. Get Vermont State Government to purchase from Vermont
  8. State Lobbying
  9. Joint marketing with State

Workforce Development Sub-Committee:

  1. Workforce Development to train people for software jobs available
  2. Education outreach and curriculum development
  3. Scholarships