Board Meeting Notes 2022-11-01

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Meeting Start:

Attendance

  • Board Members
    • James Lamken
    • Joe Mertz
    • Paul Ocampo
    • Jesse Seay
    • Fidel Galano
    • Donzell Gordon
  • Other Members
    • V (Remote)
    • Books
    • Tam
    • Jim L.
    • Alicia
    • Brian B.
    • Andrew W.

Agenda

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

Consent Agenda

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

  • PR
    • Nailing down a brand strategy
      • Pull together brand attributes during the next 5th Tuesday Potluck as part of early exploration phase.
        • The hope is that all the area hosts will show up.
      • Paul asks what the end goal is?
        • Final product would be a brand document, so that there is a clear starting point to avoid false starts for future PR efforts.
    • Will start posting videos of the makers with the goal of posting one per month.
  • Treasury Team
    • First (only?!) budgeting meeting for 2023 will be scheduled in the next couple of weeks. Current estimated time November 12th.
    • Donzell asks about the COVID EIDL loan
      • Last we heard "we were approved but the federal agency that was running the loan program disbanded"
      • Donzell and Joe think this is a good thing.


Membership Report

  • Number of Members:'491'
  • Quorum:'49'

Review the PayPal and banking transactions

Freshdesk

Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com

  • Nothing of interest
  • V and Scott will both be out of town for two weeks.

New Business

  • V is the scholarships person. They talked about scholarships
    • 8 People have scholarships that have expired, but are still "active" in WA
      • None of them have logged in to WA
    • 14 Vacant Scholarships, in theory
    • V will reach out to all of the current applicants, and all of the expiring scholarships, and see who is still interested.
      • The board will vote to approve / not-approve members at the next board meeting.
  • Fidel wants to know about the budget for the February PS:1 - Black Edition event
    • Team for the event will be meeting next week to discuss.
  • PS:1 Annual Meeting of the Membership to be held on Tuesday, November 29th at 8:00PM in the Lounge.
  • Jesse is ready with a thing to do, and is irritated that Paul is not going around the room shaming people.
    • Jesse has an event she wants to do, but is worried about getting people to attend.
    • Paul punts the getting people to the event to Alicia.
  • TVs can be damaged by flying candy.
    • Jesse contests this "fact"
    • More experimentation required


Old Business

Votes