Board Meeting Logisitics:
March 13, 2008
5:45 PM
Jive Software 317 SW Alder St Ste 500
Present:
Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky, Selena Deckelmann, Adam Duvander, Audrey Eschright, Paul Biggs, Justin Kistner
Absent:
Josh Bancroft
Updates:
Progress on 501(c) (3) status (Paul)
- Conflict of Interest Policy up for review by Board
- This is to make sure that the money we spend isnÂt done in personal interest
- Paul/Selena met with Becky Blumer from Hands on Portland
- Going to contact TACS for some help with our filing
- Working Session output — document published to the google group
- Need to re-write bylaws and focus on our core mission, rather than idealistic goals
- Next step: READ EVERYTHING ON THE WIKI
- Schedule a working session
Votes:
Go / No go on Legion of Tech Garage Sale idea (Raven)
- Vote: Approved — unanimous
Go / No go on LoT Kickoff Party assuming we have someone to approve costs (sponsorship) (Selena)
- Status: Gotham, Side Door, Lucky Lab ?
- Vote: Approved (unanimous)
- Selena, Justin, Paul to work on this project
Sponsor a survey of the Portland tech community to learn more about our demographics (Audrey–already working on this, would like to put the LoT name on it)
- Status: We donÂt know as much as weÂd like about the local community, Audrey would like to lead this effort.
- Vote: Approved (unanimous)
Updates:
Finance Committee Update (Todd)
- Startupalooza Sponsor $ update (March 29) $1600 in pledge, $800 outstanding (need $1000 more)
- Ignite 3 Sponsors $ update: Beerchips, Ziba design, Toonlet: $800 pledges
- Ignite 2: We received all of the checks from Ignite
- Barcamp sponsors: $750 pledged ($500 outstanding)
- Bank Balance: $2018.68 (Net $918 reserves)
- Fiscal year: Tentatively planning to make it the end of September
LoT Logo Coloring (Justin)
- New Logo discussed
- Will vote over email
Ignite3 Updates (Raven)
- Urgently need a date in June
- Week of June 16th at the Bagdad
- Todd to check in with them about Tuesday/Wednesday
- Working with Igal on the registration system
- Lessons learned: could use some extra time to preview the slides
Startupalooza updates (Todd)
- All the speakers are in!
BarCamp updates (Dawn)
- Things are underway, waiting on sponsorship money to decide how much food
Discussion about needing to set some working meetings to hammer though some startup stuff
- Bylaws revisions
- Narrative
- WORKING MEETING: 3/18/08, 6:30pm SIDE DOOR
Opens:
Ideas to make these board meetings more efficient.
- Per person updates
- Send updates ahead of the meeting – 24 hours before the meeting
- Conference calls for subcommitee meetings
When to meet with Steve Gehlen?
- Working session with available board members in the next week scheduled
NXNW – We think this would be too big to do as a community event, so LoT will not offer to coordinate this potential event.