Organization for Transformative Works – Board of Directors
Minutes of the meeting: September 09, 2019, 17:00 UTC
Present
Claire P. Baker
Danielle Strong
Jessie Casiulis
Kristina Busse
Lex De Leon
Natalia Gruber
Priscilla Del Cima
Guests
Aatreyee
alex
Alyndra
Ania
Aruna
Briar
Capi
doughtier
foldedchip
GoldenFalls
Goodwin
hhertzof
ioana
IZZY
james
Jen Frantz
Katherine
Katrin
Kirsten Wright
Lena
Rebecca Sentance
Maya
Morgan
Nele
Nina Iwuchukwu
Ori
Paula
Riza Firdausi
Sarah
Si Emily
Stephanie Godden
Yoruwara
Zoë
Decisions taken since the last meeting
Administration
- Approved last meeting minutes.
- Approved the 2019 budget and the budget update.
- Approved various state filing fees and representation expenses.
- Approved a payment request for our 2019 Director & Officer liability insurance.
- Approved payment for the first half of the 2018 audit fee.
- Approved the new goals for the Organization’s next Strategic Plan.
HR
- Approved Volunteers & Recruiting’s draft of a recruitment plan for the entire org.
- Approved the induction of new chairs for Communications, Volunteers & Recruiting, Open Doors and Tag Wrangling!
- Approved new staff for AO3 Docs, Support, DevMem, Systems, Translation, Volunteers & Recruiting, and Strategic Planning.
Infrastructure
- Approved a payment request for additional work on the AO3 Ruby update.
- Approved the payment to move redis on to a dedicated server which would allow for easier maintenance on our mysql servers.
- Approved DevMem’s request to create a Con Outreach work group.
- Approved payment of the annual elections software fee, and support fee.
- Approved payment for TWC’s website hosting for its online journal.
Legal Committee
- Approved Legal’s request to submit a panel proposal to San Diego Comic Con.
- Approved Legal’s request to file amicus briefs in a case called ComicMix, about a mashup between Dr. Seuss & Star Trek (“Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!”).
- Approved Legal’s request to send a submission related to New Zealand’s review of its Copyright Act.
- Approved Legal’s request to join in an ad that oppose some bad proposed New York right of publicity legislation.
- Approved Legal’s request to sign on to a set of lawmaking principles surrounding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which provides a safe harbor for platforms such as the AO3 for user-posted material for things like defamation and obscenity, the same way that the DMCA does for copyright).
- Approved Legal’s request to join a letter to Congress opposing new copyright legislation that would create a “small claims” court inside the Copyright Office.
- Approved Legal’s request to join an amicus brief drafted by Public Knowledge in the case of Smith v. Drake.
Open Session
- Meeting officially began with welcoming the new members of the board, Kirsten Wright and Rebecca Sentance, whose terms will begin October 1.
- That was followed by thanking outgoing members Priscilla Del Cima, and Kristina Busse for their service and hard work while on the board.
Board Officers
- Elections were held for President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
- Since the Treasurer is held by the chair of the Finance Committee, that will remain Yuechiang Luo. The vote to approve was unanimous.
- Lex De Leon was nominated to take over as Secretary, and again the vote to approve was unanimous.
- Natalia Gruber was nominated to be president, and again the vote was unanimous.
Other Topics
- There was a brief celebration of winning the Hugo Award.
- Congratulations to AD&T for their co-creator deploy the previous day.
Closed Session
No items
The meeting was adjourned at 14:50 UTC
Minutes approved by the Board on 28/06/2020