| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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| 7:01 | Role call |
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| Approve minutes of last meetings |
| - Approve June minutes - approved as presented
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| July Board/August General Membership Meeting Items |
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| 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)
- Dream: Creation of member creates Slack invite, sends welcome email, lists upcoming NMOs, etc.
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| Open House Hosts/Tour Guides |
| - Please consider helping out with this important task.
- We have regular Open House hosts in Leesburg (Jennifer ChuKen Fuenticilla) 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 checklists)
- Peat and Jen. (Stosh out until May) Keith Sampson (out Jan & Feb, Scott will check up on him)Keith Sampson are backups, Mark willing to pitch in.
- Jody Smith and Anthony Lesink and Diane Painter as emergency subs
- Scott will make announcements for additional volunteers
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| New Member Orientation |
| - July DatesSchedule August dates
- Had no coverage for July 10, Mark is covering July 24.
- July 17 in-person session
- Schedule August dates
- Next regular schedule is August 7 and 21 online - who can cover these dates? Mark on August 21.
- 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.
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| 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
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| New Member Liaison Program |
| - Report from Liaison lead: Not present
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Website gift card linkage status |
| Pending Scott's documentation |
| NMO Slides |
| Updates: Jen Chu has safety slide ideas. Mark has ideas too, meeting Monday. |
| Schedule Next Meeting |
| - Normal schedule would be: August 9, 2023 at 7PM.
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