I updated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Upcoming_events with this.
Already, Another Believer & Blue Rasberry have indicated that they plan to attend remotely / by video there. Yours, Peaceray On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cascadians, > > Let's plan on having our first board meeting on or around the semi-regular > Seattle meetup day, which would be Tuesday, January 13. > > I was planning to postpone most of my further work on Cascadia until > February, but I just learned today that there's a WMF funding deadline that > requires us to have our initial budget submitted by the end of January *or* > wait until May if we want WMF funding. I'd like to get us underway sooner > than May. I apologize for the rush. Today was the first that I heard of the > deadline. > > Tentative agenda items: > > * Bylaws (Peaceray and I have been drafting these; we'll send out a copy > soon for public review). > * Officer appointments by the Board. > * Website agreement with Top Level Design > * Program selection and funding for February through July (tentative) > * Startup budget for February through July (tentative). We can submit > supplemental requests in May or later. We can also submit requests to WMDC > for smaller items, and we can include a relatively large request for > reserve funds due to the funding blackout period.) > * Authorization for initial legal registrations, service purchases, and > other contracts. > * Additional agenda items forthcoming. > > To accommodate board members who are away from Seattle on that date, Mako > has graciously agreed to provide us with access to the Internet via UW so > that we can video conference. > > Let's plan on having a relatively long meeting (maybe 6 PM to 10 PM?) > although hopefully we'll move fast enough that we'll be done by 9 PM. > > For non-board members: there won't be confidential business at this > meeting and you are welcome to attend. Although only Board votes will be > counted, your good-faith comments and questions are welcome. > > If any board members cannot make that date and time, please let me know. > Also, if you plan to attend via phone or Google Hangout, please let me > know. Reminder: we will meet at *UW*, not at Cafe Allegro, exact location > to be determined; we will also have Google Hangout available so that people > can attend remotely. > > Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you! > > Pine > > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> > > > > > > > > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not > know.* > > *—Catherine Munro* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >
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