MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING
February 22, 2014, 19:00 UTC
PRESENT: Andrea Horbinski, Anna Genoese, Cat Meier, Eylul Dogruel, Franzeska Dickson
GUESTS: Elliot Oberholtzer, Hana Lee, james_, Jessica Steiner, Lady Oscar
ABSENT: sanders
DECISIONS TAKEN SINCE THE LAST MEETING
1. Board approved new staffers for DevMem
OPEN SESSION
1. Board agrees to update basecamp with meetings.
2. Committee updates
- Wiki is preparing to have the first meeting of the year
- Fanlore has reached 500,000 edits last week
- Systems is improving AO3 databases and notification systems. Systems was also dealing with new relic issues, backups, and an issue affecting challenges, and collaborated on a rebalance issue with AD&T senior staff.
- Abuse has been having some internal policy discussions. The 2014 Abuse roadmap is almost finished.
- Translation is currently training their new people and preparing for the April drive.
- Comms is continuing to work on the AO3 1 millionth events, as well as some events around the 500,000 fanlore edit.
- SP is writing the reports on Abuse, Comms, DevMem, I&O, and Web. They also plan to send the Support survey out for review soon.
- DevMem are busy inducting 5 new staffers and have their first meeting of the term 2/23
3. Documentation project.
- Election officer is ready for review
- Secretary document is ready for next step
4. Board issues tracker is being worked on.
CLOSED SESSION
1. Board discusses personnel issues
2. Board agrees to bring in a facilitator for discussions
POST-MEETING UPDATES
Finance Report
8-Feb | 22-Feb | Change | |
BoA | 100431.81 | 97493.67 | (
2938.14)
|
PayPal | 7317.64 | 9620.7 |
|
CD | 10123.93 | 10127.37 |
|
Total | 117,873.38 | 117,241.74 | (
|
Expenses for the two week period:
- analytics for Archive
- Quickbooks
- Cross Reference fees for TWC
- server hosting
- mail forwarding
- premium shipping
Geeky data:
- 196 donations for February to date for a total of $3370
- $139.14 in fees paid to PayPal.
- The average donation size has gone up to $17.19, with 15 February bringing in 52 separate donations alone.
1. Application for Directors & Officers insurance is being prepared
2. 2014-2015 Budget is being drafted
3. External-facing Finance FAQ is being drafted
4. Internal-facing Finance FAQ is being drafted, likely to be sent for review before 31 March
Minutes approved by the Board 16 March 2014.