EMSBoDMeetingMinutes090821
Eugene Maker Space Board of Directors meeting September 8th, 2021
Note: These minutes have not been approved by the BoD yet, this is a draft
Call to order
6.23PM Attending: Karen, Beata, Ben
Approve this agenda
Motion: Ben moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the agenda as amended.
The motion was seconded by Beata.
Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.
Approve previous minutes
Motion: Karen moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the minutes from the August BoD meeting as submitted.
The motion was seconded by Beata.
Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.
Reports
President's report
Nothing to report.
Secretary's report
Nothing to report.
Treasurer's report
Accounting for 09/09/2021 Bank $2900.32 PayPal $144.62 Patreon $32.04 Sum: $2976.98 Outstanding Payments: Bennett (Rent) $1500.00 Remains after payments: $1476.98 (diff from last month +$50.77)
Old Business/Action Item Review
Karen will update burn rate number on whiteboard at shop
Done!
Ben will see if he can improve the new user flow
In-progress.
Karen will send some correspondence she's had with new and potential members that may help direct this effort.
COVID-19 status review - Open Hack closure status
The State of Oregon has re-implemented indoor mask mandates due to a big uptick in infections (largely due to the the Delta variant). Karen has updated the text on the website to reflect our new mask-mandate status in compliance with state rules until further notice.
Karen to update website and door notes re: COVID
Done.
Piotr find out when we get billed for Meetup again
We just got billed. Karen wrote some text for the Meetup.com membership to discuss the future of our Meetup.com integration and presented it to the board for approval and got good feedback. She will post the announcement to our Meetup.com membership and report back on results.
Piotr will look into Patreon integration into Slack options as part of assessing whether we want to stay on this tool
Ongoing.
Karen will put election based events into calendar on a recurring annual basis
Done.
ACTION: BoD will Election planning.
Next item is October 1st, call for nominations. Karen will use the eugenemakerspace GMAIL account to let all eligible voters know about this.
ACTION: Karen will Reach out to eligible voters (including manual payers) to inform them of the nominations.
New Business
Wiki
Michael expressed concerns about the long term maintainability costs & stresses of MediaWiki. He suggested considering using an off-site service like fandom to host our Wiki. We discussed some ups and downs and decided to continue the conversation offline to figure out which direction we wanted to go.
Open Hacks
Karen requests some kind of RSVP plugin for Slack for identifying people to host. Ideally, it would provide some kind of feedback/messaging to let folks know when one had been identified.
ACTION: Ben will Find some kind of Slack plugin for identifying Hack Hosts.
Adjournment
Motion: Ben moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors adjourn.
The motion was seconded by Karen.
Motion passes, the vote was {{{4}}}.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:03PM.