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Androda
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Dec 1, 2024 - #1

November 30 2024 Board Meeting


Attendance:

Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce (Branchus), Jacob (Androda)

Absent:

Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian)

Agenda:


Item 1:

Holiday Gaming Sessions / Game Server

Notes:
  • Last year's gaming sessions were fun, so let's do it again
Action Items:
  • @eric will review the available game services, set up more as desired, and message around about them

Item 2:

Merch Store

Notes:
  • Our existing merch store is a very manual process, which we want to move away from
  • Post ideas for the merch store!
Action Items:
  • @Branchus will make an account with a new merch provider and poke around to see if it looks like a better system

Item 3:

Checkup On Moderator Meetings / Followup

Notes:
  • Most moderation actions are happening on Discord, with very few issues at all on the Tinker Different forum
  • Overall things are going well, we want to have a culture where the forum and Discord can "self-police" and people are OK bringing up issues
Action Items:

Item 4:

Board Elections

Notes:
  • Group A's term is over at end of 2024
  • Elections Process Debate, last year wasn't as organized as we would like
    • Two weeks to "put yourself into the running", ending December 16th at 00:00 GMT
    • Two weeks for voting, ending 00:00 GMT January 1st
      • Multiple-choice poll for voting
  • The Treasurer position, by unanimous vote, is being moved to the Administrative Group starting January 1st 2025
    • Official Governance Policy Wording is currently being written
Action Items:
  • @Branchus to create a thread for the Board Election "Running" announcements
  • @Branchus or @Androda to create the official voting thread
  • @Androda to coordinate creation of the official Governance Policy Language around the Admin Group

Item 5:

Donation Drive

Notes:
  • A Donation Drive was discussed at the last Board meeting
  • We want to remind people that Tinker Different is run by donations
  • We want to give people a badge on the Forum for donating
    • As a Phase 2 we could give people a role in Discord for donating
Action Items:

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