Date

Attendees

  • Scott Newman -

  • Dawn Martin
  • Tim Cotter
  • Peat Biby
  • Jennifer Chu
  • Scott Silvers
  • Mark Millsap (8:20)

Goals

  • Provide forum for membership issues to be raised, discussed, and resolved

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes

Role call


Approve minutes of last meetings


  • Do we have minutes from December (Jen Barlev said Jennifer Chu might have them?)? No minutes
  • Approve January minutes - approved
  • Approve March minutes - approved

April Board/May General Membership Meeting Items
  • Charts for March (s/b a/o March 31, actually a/o April 10) - 152.2 FTE (down from 155.2)

Wild Apricot Data Review
  • Resumption of efforts to validate Waiver, Slack, August, and WA data (Needs admin access in WA - Scott N. will research)
  • RFID for building and tool access vs. Phone App

Open House Hosts/Tour Guides
  • Please consider helping out with this important task.
  • We have regular Open House hosts in Leesburg (Jennifer Chu) and Purcellville (Stosh Kowalski), but sometimes they need backup/relief.
  • If you are interested, you can attend the regular Open Houses in both locations to get comfortable with the requirements
  • Draft Tour Outline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Tamq4JB4TTy9_PSQmFr0K1ga91xH_DKkfIrPxTiJLI/edit?usp=sharing, please Comment/Suggest 
  • Mention in Newsletter
  • Typical Open House questions - New members wanting open classes,
  • Tour Outline hardcopy for the spaces
  • QR codes for tools (usage) 
    • Peat and Jen. (Stosh out until May) Keith Sampson (out Jan & Feb, Scott will check up on him), Mark willing to pitch in.
    • Jody Smith and Anthony Lesink and Diane Painter as emergency subs
    • Scott will make announcements for additional volunteers

New Member Orientation Instructors
  • Please consider helping out with this important task.
  • We have a regular instructors, but sometimes need backup/relief.
  • If you are interested, please sign up for and attend the regularly scheduled New Member Orientations.
  • Research contacting NMO registrants to determine class interests.
    • Jen B & Jen C. Saadiq (moving?) 
    • Peat willing to step up. Dawn Martin willing to help.
    • NMO in-person vs. live
    • One on one NMO
    • WA list of members w/out NMO
    • Can WA signup auto-schedule NMO and add Slack invite and August access? Cause new members to land at a page of instructions.
    • Updated NMO slides
  • Schedule June dates
    • Next regular schedule is June 12 (Mark) and 26 (Peat), in person - will discuss in May

Vice-Chair Position
  • Please consider helping out with this important task.
  • I am looking for someone to help share the load of the Membership Chair.
  • Requires the ability to commit to some amount of time on an almost daily (or every other day) basis to learn and help manage the operations of this committee
  • No experience necessary, I am willing to train the right candidate

New Member Liaison Program
  • Who is leading? Squirrl
  • Who are liaisons? 
  • Tracking?
  • Status?
  • NMO updates - Scott

Onboarding/Offboarding process
  • Current process?
    • Jen C onboards
      • sends Slack invite
      • Sends welcome email
      • Adds to spreadsheet to make sure multiple people know status
    • Offboard
      • Deactivate Slack
      • WA access
      • Google access
      • ...
  • How are August and Slack deactivations currently handled? - John Dubelko/IT Committee are handling these now.

Email monitoring
  • Who is handling which duties?
    • New member onboarding - Jen C
    • Prospective new members - 
    • Hire a maker - 
    • Brainstorm on possible approaches...
      • Form based inquiries from the website (Google forms, email subject tags, etc...)
      • Assign volunteers in lanes (multiple per lane, with mentorship)
    • David Lang no longer active - remove from info@

membership@makersmiths.org account
  • Who has access to this? Mark Millsap and Michael James.
  • How is it presently used? Not presently used. (confirm)
  • Open to any ideas for its use.

Schedule Next Meeting
  • Normal schedule would be: May 10, 2023 at 7PM (Adjourn 8:40)

Action items

  • Post in #volunteers_needed - Scott Newman 
  • Research Post Join-Us landing page
  • Add next meeting to Calendar