Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes-2015-04-07

Attendees

Mapathon

Finances / 501(c)(3)

We have a real Wells Fargo account now.
Everyone should add themselves as signers, involves going to a local WF branch. Ian will prepare.
Ian deposited sponsorship checks into this new account
Money from regions account will be transferred over,
No updates from Debbie. Ian will touch base.
Ball is not in our court for taxes, but is for 501(c)(3)
Everything for 2013 is in order.
Alex will fill out budget prediction forms and get those over to Mark, this is the last thing in our court.
Randy Hale still has full access to Regions accounts and has helped us out when we got locked out, nobody else lives close to a regions branch.

Communications

Clifford and Charlotte started a discussion around improving communication with the objective of growing the community, people who map, everywhere.
Move beyond the traditional map enthusiasts, GIS professionals.
Diversity - attract more people from underrepresented groups in OSM.
Charlotte has background as a journalist, thinking about reaching out to journalists but also teachers, small businesses.
Alyssa asks if there is already a set of goals, a plan.
Charlotte offers that writing and spreading press releases is cheap.
Mapathons in the local news. Charlotte could support with finding.
Bottom up approach would work to get the human interest angle, have local groups stand on their own with our support.
Build local lists of press outlets.
Can we use missing maps to grow the community?
First project: organize a missing maps mapathon in your local community. We supply a support package.
Clifford and Charlotte to organize and get back to board with a plan for July.

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