Board meeting notes 2010-04-26

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Agenda

Old Business

• Continue discussion of new dues demographic
• Continue discussion of Midsouth Makers, members, and tables at cons

New Business

• Financial Report
• An answer for Rick
  • Rick proposed something to us, and we have gone two weeks without providing him a response, one needs to be given and soon
• Bringing old people back
  • Meetings attendance has dropped
    • Why?
      • Ultimately as the board, we are responsible
    • Who has not shown back up in a while?
    • What can we do to get them coming back?
  • Mailing List
    • Lets get people on it and active
    • Has anyone actually subscribed to the PSOne public list? It's teeming with activity
• Appearance
  • Current style of the main logo has been seen as too "old west" let's work on something sleek like the badge logo
  • Site colors, something is not right with them, let's make the theme match the badge logo a little better
• Promotional Stuff
  • We need something new, short, and sweet that describes us well
  • Something that covers a wide area of description with less wording
  • Our current flyer attempts to cover that wide area with too much
  • The design of our current flyers also is over used, everyone uses the "WE WANT YOU" slogan
  • Flyers, handouts, and other promotional stuff let's get creative
    • Like these Wallet Cards, Handouts, Flyers, Tri-fold
• Promotional Day
  • Let's pick a weekend that we all or several of us get together and go put up flyers and set out stacks of handouts
• Sponsors
  • Twin Cities Maker has one
  • Harford Hackerspace has four

Notes

Comes to Order @ 8:30pm

• John will draft an answer to Rick
• Make sure no one is left out of group conversations, don't want to alienate anyone.
• Membership, is low. Board should be communicating with people to find out why they haven't come back to meetings
  • Maybe send a monthly update with pictures from meetings to show people what they are missing
  • Some people may not be coming because they're waiting for us to get a space
• Group activities - Doing things as a group, movies, cook outs, dinner
• We have a lot of good ideas, but we need to execute them
• Potential Sponsors for the group
  • We wouldn't want to depend on sponsors to pay the bills
  • How would we go about it
  • Do we want sponsors?
• Our group logo
• We need something that isn't as busy, but eye catching