Board Meeting - October 8th, 2018

Board Meetings
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Agenda

• Review of Action Items from last meeting

• Open Finance Website updates

• Membership Status
  • Now a weekly thread for late payments
  • Update membership application policies
    • Did we succeed last month?

• Warden positions to fill
  • Metal - Open

• Buzzkill

• Open House
  • October 20th
  • What still needs to be done?
  • Advertising
    • reddit
    • Cincinnati Discord
    • Made in Camp Week

• Long Term Planning
  • Membership Plans for the next 2 years
  • Location Plans for the next 2 years
  • Where do we focus growth? Members? Member Engagement? Capability?

• Newsletter

• Processes and Procedures
  • What can we improve
  • What is tripping us up?

• Re-invigorating Hive Culture
  • Ordo ex chao
  • Social Events
    • Movie Night
    • Board Game Night
  • Outreach
  • Reddit weekend happenings
  • Classes

Minutes

• Review of Action Items from last meeting
• There were apparently no action items
• Membership Report.
  • Two members have left this month
  • One erroneous cancellation has been reinstated.
• We intend to accept members faster.
• There are two pending memberships.
  • TODO - Ry to email pending members encouraging interactions.
  • Tim needs to submit paperwork
  • Doug to be accepted.
  • TODO - Ryan to scan and attach Doug's application.
• TODO Amend Join page to indicate that applications must be submitted from the physical space, or after talking to a member.
• Buzzkill
  • Ticketing system about to come online
  • Trouble tickets for equipment.
  • email broken to create a ticket.
    • QR code?
• Open House
  • Coming up October 20th
  • TODO - Will to post about Saturday cleanup
  • TODO - Will to post about warden hours.
  • Advertising
    • TODO - Greg to post on Cincy discord.
    • TODO - encourage demonstrations in progress
    • TODO - Greg to post open house page to wiki
• Made in camp is the week prior
• Reinvigorating hive culture
  • Consideration of a monthly email newsletter.
    • Needs an unsubscribe feature
    • Send only to active members
    • TODO - Greg to create newsletter.
    • Build newsletter over the month, send after each board meeting.
    • Consider asking Usman for a newsletter layout.
    • TODO - discussion to continue in #marketing slack
• PTDR to fly to above the lounge for temporary storage
• Board game night to be held off until after the open house.
• Kevin considering a wine and soft crafts event.
• Outreach
  • Meetup posting seems to have worked well.
  • Classes - Mask making class coming up.
  • TODO - Will to post a class template to the wiki.