Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes/2020/04/29

Attendees

• Alyssa
• Minh
• Martijn
• Maggie
• Dani (joined late)

Actions from previous meeting

• Previous meeting minutes -- Approved unanimously

ED Update

Community

• Podcast featuring Maggie / Alyssa;
• Celeste Reynolds new member of TeachOSM steering committee
• 4 mappy hours held, one more tonight
• Community survey results being posted on blog

Organization

• budget is coming along but not finished, tracking down expenses etc
• Maggie will share results from more calls with Alan Gunn before next meeting
• Maggie Working with Ian to find new system for membership
• CoC met 4/28. Back and forth with commenters

LC

• Some comments came back from OSMF
• No next actions on our part

SOTM US

• CfP out
• We want to have the conference in person, online not on the table at the moment
• Alyssa suggests virtual should remain on the table
• No financial outlay to speak of yet
• Working on backup dates
• U of AZ will decide about fall classes end of June
• Concern about losing the income
• We haven't made any money from SOTM US in years
• Planning committee makes the operational decisions around SOTM US

New Business

Budget Draft

• Aiming to spend 100k less on SOTM US this year
• Need new ideas for fundraising
  • New donation page in place
  • Companies are still willing to donate, anecdotally
  • Do we need actual programs?
  • We're 'competing' with OSMF for funding
  • Membership restructure
• We need to find out the pieces of information Gunner mentioned
• We need to figure out priorites together with ED to ensure there's time to spend on the budget pieces

Informal Meeting

• Maggie to set up informal meeting week of 11 or 18

Adjournment

On time