Cascadia Wikimedians/December 2017 board meeting

Annual meeting -- Seattle Public Library Capitol Hill Branch

Attending:

Brian / user:Bri, treasurer

Lane / user:Bluerasberry (via teleconference)

Treas (Brian) announced that the insurance for Wiki Cascadia as a nonprofit organization lapsed at the end of October. Wiki Cascadia need to re-up

Minutes

January event - MLK Day - Wiki Day, 15 January
- We plan something at UW
- Mako is involved since the October meeting and will be providing a room at UW
Cascadia.wiki needs a new host; our provider is going under wiki.wiki
- We should be able to maintain the .wiki domain
- Ray can have it hosted from star-community.org's service
- $15 annual will be paid by Ray as an in-kind donation
Notes on general interest, future directions
1. Local issues coverage - how to improve? Should it be part of our mission?
  - Lane on NYC coverage: NYC is target rich. We could have some response to something. Cascadia is different. What should we do? We need an organizer; if it's personal interest this leads to organizers.
  - How do we go about deciding what our priorities are?
  - When we (NYCers) have decided to do something, we want to be of interest to multiple projects and multiple people at the same time. Suggest including a host (e.g. library) who is also interested. Do something once and "claim credit" multiple times.
  - Professional interest -- librarians, professors, museums -- people who get paid are "a lot more motivated" to make sure it goes well -- it is hard to get solid volunteer time.
  - How to report and disclosed wrt paid editing, paid involvement? Think about staff time of librarians as being compensated labor.
  - Hypothetical - Google API writeups? It is not hypothetical, a commercial organization offered Wiki NYC 25k dollars to present Wiki events at universities to encourage student editing of an academic topic, en:virtual reality. Wiki NYC did not accept this because of lack of infrastructure to meet expectations, but many aspects of the proposal seemed positive.
  - Joe says it's key that the money doesn't come with strings attached wrt content.
2. We are interested in filling in history of the region more than companies … history of (Cascadia topics)
  - Future directions
  - We should revive the WikiProject Seattle topics and expand them.
  - Help keep GA articles de-listed
  - Improve the Seattle Architecture article
  - en:Chin Gee Hee could be another
  - Next year (2019) will be the 150th anniv of Seattle incorporation - we could look for City participation in items of interest

Business

Bank balance $316.18

Board

At halfway point for terms

Mako

Pine

Ray

Terms ending this year Dec 31 2017

Bruce

Joe

Brian

Interim appointment

Another Believer

Board reappointments: Ray moved that Brian, Joe, Bruce be reappointed; Lane agreed; terms renewed until EOY 2020 (three year term)

Offices: Current officer appointments are unchanged by motion

Advice from an accountant who is Ray's acquaintance: Advised that we keep using Xero for a publicly accessible/viewable document; Would be better for us than doing it on paper; Cost would be about $9 per month; We think the accounting file is still there ready to "rehydrate"

Expected income: Amazon smile; United Way (don't know exact month)