Board Meeting Notes 2018-03-20

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start: 7:05 pm

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Andrew C
  • Jennie P
  • Adam S
  • Kathryn B
  • Sam C
  • Ed B
  • Sky N

• Other Members
  • Jason S
  • Andy S
  • Ray D

Agenda

• Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
• Consent Agenda
• Committee Reports
• Read mail
• Financial/membership report
• Review the PayPal and banking transactions
• Member leaving reason reports
• Check RT queue
• New business
  • Distribute most recent drafts of Bylaws documents to Bylaws group members (past and future); schedule next live meeting; request that all participants read each document "cover-to-cover" before attending.
    • We have most recent draft
    • Sam will email everyone below
    • Jonathan B
    • Will M.
    • Deanna M
    • Jennie P
    • Kathryn B
    • Andrew C
    • Ed B
    • Sam C
  • NOMCON. Are we sending someone to the Nation of Makers Conference this year? I think the topic has been discussed, but at this point only informally. I would prefer that we were presenting at the conference rather than just attending, but it may be too late for this year. Also, it often takes one initial attendance to get the lay of the land. There are some tracks that seem interesting and relevant to us (https://nomcon.collectiveinnovation.com/). I think it's too early to make a specific proposal on attendance, but I'd suggest a five-minute discussion followed by vote on whether I should go put a formal budget and proposal together.
    • Adam will put together budget and proposal
    • People are interested
  • Wild Apricot switchover/communication plan. Want to get a sense of the timing here and also flesh out the communication plan. Nothing complicated, but basically want to figure out what blog posts I need to write and which newsletter(s) to include them in. I think we can work this out in five minutes.
    • Updates from Sky
    • Adam will add initial announcement to next newsletter
  • Newsletter status update
    • High open and click rate
    • Low unsubscribe rate
    • This indicates good reception by people that received the email

• Old business

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

• Previous meeting's minutes need to be approved

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

Mail

• need to check

Financial Report

• Chase Checking:
• Chase Savings:
• PEX:
• PayPal:

Membership Report

• Starving Hackers: 398
• Full Members: 133
• Total Members: 531
• Quorum: 45

Votes

Board meeting adjourns at not yet pm