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Scott Newman 

Goals

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

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes

Role call


Approve minutes of last meetings


  • Approve May minutes - 

June Board/July General Membership Meeting Items
  • Charts for May 

Wild Apricot Data Review
  • Resumption of efforts to validate Waiver, Slack, August, and WA data (Needs admin access in WA - Scott N. has made some headway with the API)

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
  • Schedule July dates
    • Next regular schedule is July 10 and 24 in person - will discuss in June
  • Additional Volunteers wanted
    • 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.
  • Can WA signup auto-schedule NMO and add Slack invite and August access? Cause new members to land at a page of instructions.

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
  • Report from Liaison lead: 

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 - Scott N.
      • Process as documented in Membership SOP

Email monitoring
  • Who is handling which duties?
    • New member onboarding - Jen C
    • Prospective new members - STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS HERE
    • Hire a maker - STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS HERE
    • 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) I think this makes the most sense as a starting point for current conditions, thoughts?
      • Scheduled duty?
    • Nate Jaenichen and Cody Johnson offered to help. Scott N. will reach out to coordinate details

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: July 12, 2023 at 7PM

Action items

  • Post in #volunteers_needed - Scott Newman 
  • Research Post Join-Us landing page
  • Add next meeting to Calendar
  • NMO link on Mobile links to January Slides - See Tim Cotter for details.
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