Board meeting notes 2010-04-26

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Attendance

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

John will draft and 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?