Our Networks 2020 Check-in 2020-01-25

📅 Date: Sat, Feb 15, 2020 @ 14:00-16:00
🙋 Participation: in-person
👪 Attendance:

sarah
garry
dc

Agenda

Pick a date
Funding/budget expectations
Organization structure
Capacity, Organizer?
Colours?! Look and Feel

Notes

Pick a date

Some back-of-paper ranking
- Aug 7-9
- Aug Week 4
- July Week 2
- Sept Week 4
- July Week 1

Funding/budget expectations

Decision to revisit applying for TAC (Mar 02), OAC (April 30)
- todo: co-work at upcoming session on grant
Research on CAC Digital Strategy Fund (rolling deadline)

Organization structure

We are within exemption limit given budget, not in place where need to do HST etc...
Last year flagged question of org structure b/c it can limit liability, open funding channels, might be required by budget
Discussion that we'll be inline with last 2 years budget: ~$16,000
Informal structure working, we have banking set up.
Decision to sit on formalizing structure if main benefit would be around insurance

Capacity, Organizer?

Areas: Exhibition, Social media, Website, Design, Vision/CFP, Mesh(?), Social, Swag, Sponsorship, Livestream
Concern with Ben gone we've lost a lot of capacity around livestream (and ties to mesh communities)
Could see 1-2 other organizers joining team to ensure we have capacity.
Decision: invite two folks, looking for one with avail mostly in Toronto. Hopefully they could attend our next call!

Colours?! Look and Feel

Parked, but had some brainstorming at the end!

TODOs

garry: lock down dates
dc: add notes to repo
dc: add dates to calendar
dc: draft orga invite email
dc: prepare for next meeting: orga responsibilities, milestones
all: add photos to: https://share.mayfirst.org/f/5874287
gi+dc: jam on site on IPFS