O/D Meeting 01/17/2017

CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL

In attendance:

José Josh Wilcox Nathan Armentrout Ben Hibben Charles David

BUSINESS AS USUAL:

1 - Financial Report (Good/Bad/Ugly)
- We have money about $40,000 in bank. $20,000 has been earmarked.
- LGE is $1200 for February.
- Maybe we should redo our windows?
- Maybe buy a smart thermostat (Daniel)
2 - Membership Generation/Retention (How Much and How Well?)
- On the upswing recently.
- Membership by the month
  - Sept 66
  - Oct 67
  - Nov 66
  - Dec 69
  - Jan 71
- Do we need to advertise more our voting-exemption?
- Jason wants to begin a regular newsletter. (Check back in next meeting)
3 - Equipment Report (Broken report, space upgrades/downgrades assessment)
4 - Education/Programming Report (Outreach efforts, workshops, special events -- metrics & general effectiveness, as reported by those responsible)
- What is the difference between Meetup, Facebook, lvl1.org, google groups, etc?
  - how do we know where people come from?
  - What do we intend to do about how to keep people posting things on these things.
  - How do we get people looking at our wiki page about how to make a workshop?
  - Do we want an aggregating service to push information out to multiple services, on a time schedule??
  - Do we want a virtual assistant?
  - Brian will organize a social-media meeting. Jan 24???
    - Flicker v/s instagram?
5 - Happening Report -- a calendar check to make sure things are current, contacts are listed; also, a time to introduce new events & their details

BUSINESS FTW:

1 - LVL1 Election in January: Plan for engaging membership (Danielle)
2 - End of the Year Check-up: Anything we need to prep for?
3 - "WTF, LVL1?" -- Attendees bring up misc things they think should be addressed.

ADJOURN

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