Board Meeting Notes 2012-02-07

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting started at 07:10 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Patrick Callahan
• Shawn Blaszak
• Ishmael Rufus
• Eric Stein
• Steve Finkelman

Agenda

Old Business

• Did Eric ever get access to our dedicated server?
• Update on Lindsay's proposed "Intro to hand sewing (including e-textiles)", and "How to dress like a man" classes.
• Update on Avner's proposed a group rate for classes in brewing at the "Brew and Grow" around the corner.
• Update on the space hunt: Progress towards LOI?
• Budget for moving
• New_Member_Procedure: Eric made a wiki page
• Teaching a class procedure: Tim started a wiki page.
• New_board_handover_procedure: Tim started a wiki page
• Any other procedure -> wiki page needs?

New Business

• Financial/membership report full starving members in total
• Flourish Workshop (flourish is March 30-31)

Minutes

• Eric still doesn't have access to the server
  • Ryan was contacted and said he'd give it to Patrick to give to Eric
• Lindsey still hasn't set dates for her classes
• Avner is still interested in setting up a Beer brewing class but hasn't set up a time/date for the class yet.
• Brian has completed the LOI for the new building.
  • it has been looked at by Brian's qualified friends
  • Tim has signed it.
  • The official new address would be 3519 N. Elston
• We need to set up a budget for the move and build-out
  • Tim is starting to set up a thread on the mailing list
• We may need to renew our non-profit status with Home Depot
• Eric made a wiki page about the new member process
• We need to improve our response time for approving moderated messages to the mailing list
  • Eric will look into alternative solutions
• Tim made a wiki page for a potential procedure for teaching a class
• Eric suggested we create "working groups" to work on specific projects
• Tim created a wiki page for the procedure for an outgoing board to hand over power to an incoming board.
• Ish gave the report on membership count and financial status
• We will be switching the web page to another server which we have direct control over.
• Flourish wants us to run a hardeware hacking class March 30th and 31st. They may be willing to give us money for it.

Meeting adjourned at 07:45 pm