Board meeting notes 2010-06-07

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Agenda

Old Business

• Bylaws
  • Finishing up bylaws to present to attendees at next meeting
  • How long should we leave the bylaws out there for attendees to critique?

New Business

• Social Media
  • Twitter
    • More tweets, we need content on our account
    • Select individuals to post tweets, provides a diversity across town
    • Discuss with Joe about any SEO general rules to consider for tweeting
  • Flickr
    • It ranks very well, but if we've been slacking
    • We have uploaded some of the crap photos in between the good ones
    • We haven't named, tagged, or described most of them
    • How will it work for us to be ranked at all if it has no keywords to build off of
    • Chris needs to be the one to upload photos to the official account, filter out duplicates and bad ones, and put in some meaningful names to them
    • Lumpy has created us a group on Flickr, we need to make sure it is properly setup
      • It needs our logo
      • We need to make sure we have the ability to administer it
      • Figure out what is needed so that members may add to it, that is the purpose of the groups is so that multiple accounts can upload to it
  • Facebook
    • Chris was doing an excellent job setting up the few events we'd had thus far, we want to make sure that keeps happening
    • The one problem was they were not making it out to people including fans
    • We need the events up there but it needs to be propagated, figure out how to make that happen
• Finances
  • We have dropped in the number of people who were contributing, this is going to set us back at least a month if not more
  • We made the mistake of originally stating that we were starting dues
  • Dues imply a sense of "you must or else" and we don't want that
  • We need to attempt something of pledges (i.e. I pledge X amount of the next 12 months) by informing everyone that we will be discussing with each if and what they can possibly pledge one on one
  • We need to continue to discuss the need of money at every meeting until everyone understands how vital it is
  • It comes down to the fact of how many people are actually there to try and obtain a space, if that is no longer of interest to people then why bother with the group since that is what we started it for
  • Everyone in the group needs to understand the budget necessary to run things and needs to be involved in the choosing of a space
  • If they know of a realtor to contact then they need to get the info to us
  • If they know of a potential space then they need to get the info to us
  • When we are looking at spaces, we need to let everyone know so that if they wish to show up, they can join in on viewing it or at least we need to make sure it is documented heavily to come back and show everyone

Notes

Comes to Order @ 8:50pm

• Move Bylaws to the Wiki for general group discussion
  • Print Bylaws to discuss at the Meetings
• Possibly buying shot glasses to sell at defcon
• Social Media
  • We have facebook, twitter, we need to use it more