Board Meeting January 17th and 18th NYC
From FreeCulture.org Wiki
Meeting
2009/01/17-18th
MeetingAttendees= Driscoll, Cducruet, Brendan Ballou
Contents |
Agenda
- T shirts For Sale
- Incorporation / 501c3 Status
- Reimbursements
- Elections
- Post-conference report
- Wheeler activity for chapters
- Free Culture Conference 2009
- Discussing Organizational structure
- How the board offers support to SFC teams
- De-geeking outreach for new chapters (esp. to arts / humanities)
Meeting Minutes
January 17, 2009
Brendan, Christina, Elizabeth, Fred, Kevin
T Shirts
Incorporation
- Acquired EIN via IRS online.
- Submitted Articles of Incorporation to Mass.gov
Reimbursements
- 25 submitted
- 10 reimburse left waiting for missing info
- emailed all 35 folks individually
- gathered missing emails
January 18, 2009
Elections
- Plan to hold elections in Spring
- Feb 14 - nominations open
- Feb 29 - nominations close
- March 1 - 23 - campaigning (design an offering to the free culture community)
- March 24 - first day to vote
- March 31 - last day to vote
- April 1 - winners announced
- Somewhere between April 1 and May 1 - transition meeting
- May 1 - new board takes power
- Use Selectricity
To Do
Elections
- Create a nominations page
- Write email to solicit nominations in early February (KD)
- Talk to Mako about Selectricity (KD)
Conference
- internal post-conference report (FB)
- topics:
- fund raising efforts
- reimbursements
- communication methods
- conference layout - 2 day method worked well
- external conference report to approach with fundraisers (FB and CD)
- confirm conference location (CD)
Wheeler Declaration
- developing status report card (KD ~February)
- outreach to chapters - can we get them to start asking questions for their campus (everyone)
Outreach
- Draft of how to set up a chapter (BB)
- suggested events
- Movies
- Grading your school
- Free Textbooks