Regular Member Meeting 2011 09 13
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Note: This page serves as the 2011-09-13 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).
Time and Location
September 13, 2011
Meeting called to order at __07:xx__ by:
Members Present:
Others Present:
Quorum met?
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Regular Member Meeting 2011 07 12 Regular Member Meeting 2011 08 09
Director Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report (Tim Slagle)
Here is the Aug 2011 financial summary: File:HacDC Financials Aug 2011.pdf
We were about $100 behind in August despite adding some members - now at 46 paying members. We gained two (soon to be) members (Sean Rutledge and Bill Babson), lost one member (Micheal Epstein) and had one non-paying member who will be dropped next month.
I cancelled our QuickBooks Online subscription after dumping all the data to printouts. The spreadsheets I am maintaining should cover what we need for tax reporting.
We paid a $20 chargeback fee because a (now former) member decided to get his July 2011 dues payment back from the credit card company instead of contacting us and asking for a refund or replying to the emails I sent. If you need to cancel your membership or have any questions about your payments, please contact me ([email protected]) or any of the officers and let us know. Please don't contest the charges or file a dispute with PayPal without talking to us first!
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Toast
Brad B
Member Reports
Tim Slagle
I (re)applied to Google Grants and we were accepted this time! We now have an AdWords account with a $329 daily advertising budget. I created a sample ad but we could do a lot more with this - specific ads targeting projects and classes. Does somebody want to manage this? If you have something you want to promote, think of the ad text and keywords and we can set up a Google ad for it.
We can also get other Google benefits including a YouTube channel and a Google Apps account. Applications are in progress and input is welcome, but we are looking at giving HacDC Apps accounts as a member benefit and moving mailing lists over to Google Groups (so individual members could set up their own mailing lists).
I made a YouTube channel for us: HacDCvideos ("HacDC" was already taken.) Right now there are just playlists of the videos other people have posted, but we could eventually have recordings of projects, classes, and events.
Old Business
New Business
New Members
Adjournment
Adjourned at: