Meetings/2010-01
Date/Location
- January 26th, 2010
- 7:30pm
- Shop
- Eat before, or bring food with.
- All members
Agenda
| Topic | Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| Review of Board Action Items | Chairman | Action Items |
| Treasurer's Report | Treasurer | Action Items |
| Netadmin Report | TBD | Action Items |
| Facilities Committee Report | Facilities Committee | Action Items |
| Project | Chairman | Action Items |
| Publicity & Events | Publicity Chair | Action Items |
| New Member Recognition | Secretary | |
| Decide next meeting date | Chairman | |
| Update "Action Items Closed Since Last Meeting" Redmine Filter 'Closed' date to be today's date | Chairman | |
| Change Door Code | Secretary | |
| Reclaiming former board member metal keys and changing of the door code | Chairman | |
| Pig Roast update | Omegix | |
| Donation Recognition System | Omegix |
Discussion
- Lease: When is the official end date? Do we want to call and make sure he is good with us re-upping the contract in April vs. finding out we have to leave 4 weeks before the lease expires?
- Who are the new members added since the last meeting? How many members do we have now?
- simoncion
- dusty
- cherryblossom
- ladymerlin
- bendersgame
Potential Member Query: Who's the board?
I was explaining the process for becoming a new member to some potentials at the shop. One of the troubleshooting tips they offered was that they didn't know who the board members were. Would the board be willing to place a photo of themselves on the wall or on the website? Omegix 22:19, 20 January 2010 (CST)
- I'd prefer wall instead of website. Brimstone 08:25, 21 January 2010 (CST)
- Isn't that the point of the sponsor system? To get to know people around the shop? They'd still need majority approval of the board members to get elected, and two members isn't going to do that for them. Brimstone 08:25, 21 January 2010 (CST)
- Telling potential new members who the board is only helps to undermine the process of getting to know people at the shop. This process was put in place so that board members would have the opportunity to get a feel for someone prior to voting. By telling them who the board members are they can then go directly to those people and try to get them to sign their application instead of interacting with everyone. As far as brimstone's comment about "two members", technically the two board member signatures on their application is sufficient to grant them membership in the event that all other board members abstain from voting, which has happened. --strages 10:15, 21 January 2010 (CST)
Donation Recognition System
Perhaps we could have a type of public recognition that someone is financially supporting our organization? Public recognition for contributions could encourage donations overall, from both members and community supporters.
I've heard that descriptive levels\labels work well for this kind of system.
A copper membership might be anything under $100 a year
A silver membership might be Anything between $100 and $500
and so on.
Corporate donations will likely enjoy the special recognition on a contributors page of the website. It wouldn't be unreasonable to put up a banner thanking a corporation for a $5000 gift on the website for a time period.
For personal donations, little thank-you services make the fact that others are contributing visible, and encourage others to donate.
We could also brainstorm some perks that come with being a certain level of donor, like recognition on the front page of the site,
or custom greets from Ackis in the channel. For keyed members instead of "Unlocking for Member" ackis could say something the member requests like "His awesomeness [Member] has graced the presence of the Make Shop."
