2014 01 25

Agenda

• 2013
  • Settled into new building, garage sales, money ups and downs and ups
  • New staff members, increased traffic
  • Big thanks to contributors
  • What we’ve learned
• 2014
  • Review of bylaws, revisiting board elections
  • Process documentation and solidifying our base further
  • Where are we going? Setting goals and getting on the same page moving forward

Present

Tom Hagman, Art Oglesby, Eric Holscher, ?, Munir Nassar, Wes Christopherson, Peter Scheie, Butch, ?, Natalya Portnow, Brian Dunnette

Discussion

• External Board
  • Why: Give general direction/advice (need to define roles/responsibilities?); keep us accountable (esp. for e.g. grants)
  • Some possible candidates from within org. - do we need people with outside experience (esp. e.g. legal, nonprofit, accounting)?
  • How do we select board - election by staff/volunteers?
  • Examples of other FG Boards:
    • http://wiki.freegeekvancouver.org/article/Board_of_directors
    • http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Board_of_Directors
• Scaling up?
  • Need better organization (esp. for incoming computer storage)
  • May need more space long-term
    • Could probably get within building - e.g. "kitchen" space, (part of) garage?
    • Financially and logistically, moving not ideal (at least when lease is up in spring 2014)
  • CTEP volunteers? Would need to provide supervision, defined training program, and money for their stipend
• 2013 Look-Back
  • High Points
    • Garage Sale
    • Increased financial reserves
• 2014 Ideas
  • Better/more marketing
  • More communication of finances (and better system for tracking, e.g. sales tax)
  • Better sharing of workload & information
  • Better documentation & training