Cascadia Wikimedians/December 2017 board meeting

Annual meeting -- Seattle Public Library Capitol Hill Branch

Attending:

Ray / user:Peaceray, president
Joe / user:Jmabel
Bruce / user:SounderBruce
Brian / user:Bri, treasurer
Lane / user:Bluerasberry (via teleconference)

Treas (Brian) announced that the insurance for Wiki Cascadia as a nonprofit organization lapsed at the end of October. Wiki Cascadia need to re-up

Minutes edit

  1. January event - MLK Day - Wiki Day, 15 January
    • We plan something at UW
    • Mako is involved since the October meeting and will be providing a room at UW
  2. Cascadia.wiki needs a new host; our provider is going under wiki.wiki
    • We should be able to maintain the .wiki domain
    • Ray can have it hosted from star-community.org's service
    • $15 annual will be paid by Ray as an in-kind donation
  3. Notes on general interest, future directions
    1. Local issues coverage - how to improve? Should it be part of our mission?
      • Lane on NYC coverage: NYC is target rich. We could have some response to something. Cascadia is different. What should we do? We need an organizer; if it's personal interest this leads to organizers.
      • How do we go about deciding what our priorities are?
      • When we (NYCers) have decided to do something, we want to be of interest to multiple projects and multiple people at the same time. Suggest including a host (e.g. library) who is also interested. Do something once and "claim credit" multiple times.
      • Professional interest -- librarians, professors, museums -- people who get paid are "a lot more motivated" to make sure it goes well -- it is hard to get solid volunteer time.
      • How to report and disclosed wrt paid editing, paid involvement? Think about staff time of librarians as being compensated labor.
      • Hypothetical - Google API writeups? It is not hypothetical, a commercial organization offered Wiki NYC 25k dollars to present Wiki events at universities to encourage student editing of an academic topic, en:virtual reality. Wiki NYC did not accept this because of lack of infrastructure to meet expectations, but many aspects of the proposal seemed positive.
      • Joe says it's key that the money doesn't come with strings attached wrt content.
    2. We are interested in filling in history of the region more than companies … history of (Cascadia topics)
      • Future directions
      • We should revive the WikiProject Seattle topics and expand them.
      • Help keep GA articles de-listed
      • Improve the Seattle Architecture article
      • en:Chin Gee Hee could be another
      • Next year (2019) will be the 150th anniv of Seattle incorporation - we could look for City participation in items of interest

Business edit

Bank balance $316.18
Board
At halfway point for terms
Mako
Pine
Ray
Terms ending this year Dec 31 2017
Bruce
Joe
Brian
Interim appointment
Another Believer
Board reappointments
Ray moved that Brian, Joe, Bruce be reappointed
Lane agreed; terms renewed until EOY 2020 (three year term)
Offices
Current officer appointments are unchanged by motion
Advice from an accountant who is Ray's acquaintance
Advised that we keep using Xero for a publicly accessible/viewable document
Would be better for us than doing it on paper
Cost would be about $9 per month
We think the accounting file is still there ready to "rehydrate"
Expected income
Amazon smile
United Way (don't know exact month)