Staff/Volunteers

BACE general meeting – Wed March 13, 2013 @ Noisebridge

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Attendees:  Amber, Carl, Greg, Daniel, Evan, Johnny,  Leslie, Lisa,  Mark, Megan, Pauline, Rick, Sarah, Seth, Vandana, Victoria, Wendy

Report Backs

• Amber and Carl set up support@bace
• Seth got a Thank You for a donor
• Carl, Amber and Rick participated in a user feedback session (with volunteers) for move to original branch
• Greg has been working on the blog (security, clean up, etc.)
• Rick has a party coming up at St Francis Sq. in May

Mountain View launch for new Timebank (Vandana and Pauline)

• Will focus on healthy aging in place and an intergenerational approach to building healthy communities.

Sarah and Victoria need folks to take a survey for a new mobile app. for Timebanks

• will be open source and awesome

Johnny on video and Outreach

• needs an assistant to work on video + has a 1 minute video on how to make a cobb oven
• Earth Day Festival, wants BACE to table, April 20^th 1 – 6, civic center location, wants help with skillshares.

Outreach Reports

• Greg – Bay Area Sharing Economy? SF Professional Career Networking?
• Creative Currency – forward email to list
• Evolver Bay Area – forward email to list

Timebank Retreat Priorities (a raw vote on priorities from a pop-corn session)

• structure – 7
• responsibility – 4
• accountability – 3
• what are we doing badly? – 4
• diversity – 3
• member agreement, liability – 3
• education – 2
• board member rotation – 1
• grow capacity – 1
• make meetings better (food) – 1
• grassroots led organization – 2
• what is our goal – 8
• nature of leadership – 1
• take stock of resources – 4
• what are our needs – 3
• working groups (tech, admin, outreach and inreach) – 4
• localize the BACE Timebank – 3
• organizational partnerships – 4
• strategy and tactics – 5
• scaling up/scaling down – 0
• day to day operations/policy/operations

Timebank Retreat Announcement will go out to Timebank, Facebook, blog, etc.

–notes taken by Rick

Reportbacks:

• New email addresses
• Hayes Valley Farm bug still not fixed
• Case of mysterious disappearing profile still unsolved
• Amber presented at the Community Living Campaign

Goals for the next year on the Timebank:

• Carl – new website up and rocking
• Seth – less chaos, more professionalism via the new website
• Megan – get confidentiality up and running
• Claudia – get more involved, plug into the community
• Amber – get TB available to folks without computers and redefine structure (who we are, how we do it)
• Ricardo – demonstrate how we function as a region, making TB more sustainably run and bringing TB to folks without computers via Warm Houses

Items

• January POSSE party – not gonna happen. We’ll focus on February.
• Focus more internally
• Bank account – not open yet, Amber still needs more info
• Got $400 donation!
• Ask for thank you gift / card via the Timebank
• Tech help needed – usability testers needed, content revamp needed. Weekends are good for folks. Incorporate Aaron Shwarts Memorial Hackathon for TB tech? Usability test at Noisebridge.
• 2 hour usability test at Noisebridge Fri, 1/25 1-3pm.
• February 17 for retreat, time and place TBA
• Start working together beforehand more meaningfully.
• Rick and Amber will work on content.
• Get orgizational-minded folks from the TB to come to retreat
• Wayne offered to help with organization stuff.
• Increase diversity of voices at the table at the retreat
• Create tools to make it easier for people to plug in to the TB, spread the word, etc.
• Rotation of duties
• Is the privacy issue fixable technically? Future issue after launch. Is commenting enabled on the blog? Post a request for blog tech guru.

— notes by Seth

Howdy folks. We’ve been having some tech issues this past week. Things should be resolved now, but we apologize for the inconvenience.  On a related note, if you know a friendly Ruby on Rails developer who wants to get involved with a super cool project (rhymes with “Mimetank”), please drop us a line at timebankinfo@sfbace.org.