Latest revision as of 20:16, 9 July 2020

Agenda

Announcements/new business - 5m
Dire Financial situation - 5m
lease renegotiation / other lease options - 10m
- No word yet from Oxford on our most recent proposal. Joe will get in touch by phone. DONE
AHA Bank account - proposal to get Nate on the account. Will need to reach out to Mike to coordinate. Long-term might be nice to look into other banking options, such as credit unions.
plan for solvency: classes, members, sponsors-20m
- James wants us to reach out to members to teach some simple classes (nothing super elaborate that requires a ton of planning)
- Use the mailing list (mailchimp) to get more publicity
Online classes/call to do more - 5m
- As above, reaching out to members to share their skills is critical a this point
- Space improvement day - getting more people involved, having plenty of tasks that are easy to get started on with a shallow learning curve.
- Reaching out to other orgs is a high priority. Lots are trying to figure out their next move, so this is a good time to reach out.
Tech items:
- Wiki migration planning
How to add new members during COVID-19 - 10m
- "Abbreviated" membership process -- get people into the shop, semi-supervised
- Online classes to get people trained on machines

Thing that needs to be done
- People/Workgroups responsible
- Deadline/Estimate
Reach out to Michael P. - Joe DONE
Add guide to wiki on "how to get started teaching a class" - James, by August
Friendly email/reach out to others in the building - Mike (PENDING)
Evaluate voting options on election process improvement thread - Nate, two months before the next election

Volunteering
- Need to get things running again, see if anyone would like to teach a class during the downtime
- Start contacting volunteer/reduced rate folks by mid-next-week.
- list of volunteering ideas started
- How/if to track how much people are actually volunteering?

Accounting
- Stay with freshbooks or switch?
- Use accounting software to track individual member payments? Joe's research says that Homeowners associations and German Club use this method. Both are billed yearly, however
- Interim solutions: better spreadsheets with documentation

determine how people can qualify on new tools during COVID-19
- Online/video class followed by brief in person qualification?

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 * Dire Financial situation - 5m
 * lease renegotiation / other lease options - 10m
-** No word yet from Oxford on our most recent proposal. Joe will get in touch by phone.
+** No word yet from Oxford on our most recent proposal. Joe will get in touch by phone. DONE
 * AHA Bank account - proposal to get Nate on the account.  Will need to reach out to Mike to coordinate.  Long-term might be nice to look into other banking options, such as credit unions.
 * plan for solvency: classes, members, sponsors-20m
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 ** People/Workgroups responsible
 ** Deadline/Estimate
-* Reach out to Michael P. - Joe
+* Reach out to Michael P. - Joe DONE
 * Add guide to wiki on "how to get started teaching a class" - James, by August
-* Start email thread on volunteering - Joe DONE on matrix summary on wiki [Volunteering Ideas]
 * Friendly email/reach out to others in the building - Mike (PENDING)
-* Evaluate voting options on election process improvement thread - Nate, by end of this week
+* Evaluate voting options on election process improvement thread - Nate, two months before the next election
 = Running List of Projects =
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 *** Nate home automation class
 ** Critical to do these since we have no other income at the moment, besides dues.
 * Volunteering