Meeting Results - Please Reply

[Alexander Honkala]

Hello,

As mentioned I would at the last board meeting, I sat down with Josh to go over everything keeping AHA running to reorganize it a bit and relieve the weight on his shoulders. The following list is the outcome of this discussion. If you're getting this email, it means that this list contains something directly pertinent to you and that you ought to reply in the name of AHA. Here we go:

1) Accounting

Action = ask Jess what she needs to take on more responsibilities with accounting

Action = ask Jenn when she can meet to do accounting and what she can do without you

    Jenn can you do this soon?

2) Classes

Action = ask Dana if she can take over planning classes at AHA and her after-school thing and completely own it

    I have already asked her; aside from needing to step away for a few days after the camp, she is down for this

Action = move BF to 2/3 pay for coordinator and 1/3 to AHA with volunteers up in the rest, coordinating with the School of Education would be helpful as we can offer Internships

    Need to talk to Kimberfla about this to see what contacts she has in the S.Ed. to find Interns

3) Shop

Action = establish 1 day/month as a space improvement day to finish out Dogfort et al

    Does the 1st Sunday of the month work for everyone?

Action = coordinate venting locations with landlord, then hand off ventilation project to Schvartsman entirely

Action = delegate ownership of the organization of one section of the shop to Superusers (not officers) to check it weekly; suggested Dan for electronics, Naomi or Emilio for crafts, Moga for Dogfort

    Need to ask each of these people if they'll do it; Superusers report to Shogun

4) Involvement: Membership, Officers, and Board

Action = shift all management of membership currency to the Executioner

    Where you at, Executioner? I ain't seen anything from you for July

Action = experiment with having a general meeting right before the board meeting

    Thoughts?

Action = re-adopt GTD methodology for board-wide tasks like this 501c3 application that we're currently fucking up

    Nate can you lead the GTD?

    Ox, can you find us a Noisebridge founder to talk to with this?

Action = require a monthly GTD from all officers to see where they're at

Action = re-instate a specialized role for each board member

Action = bring on shift volunteers from AHA's community instead of just DOps

    A bunch of DOps volunteers are about to go back to school, so we'll be left high-and-dry unless we schlep this

5) Promotion

Action = learn what the hell a press release is, put together a press packet

Action = Facetweet more, guys

6) Goals

What the fuck are our long-term goals, guys? What is success to AHA?

7) Longer-Term Scheduling

Action = define what annual events we need to be at, and plan for them

[N Y]

Hello? Is this thing on? Sound off, folks! We've got some work to do and
some of these items are on a deadline.

Josh, I would like to take a look at the book you got re: 501c3 status
-- I will be in tomorrow if possible, or Sunday as we agreed on for
sure. Based on that info, I will go ahead and contact one of the
resources you found from NEW. It sounds like we might be OK with
regards to our submission date, so there's that at least.

Directors: Have you taken a moment to compare our 501c3 draft with the
Noisebridge, Harford, etc. apps? Your thoughts?

-- Nate Y.