Rede Meeting Minutes 11 August 2008

Redesfolk Present: Dan, Phil, Ana, Jag, Jenn

Previous meeting's minutes unanimously approved.
Previous meeting's actions reviewed and discussed briefly.

I. Þing Location
Group divided on whether or not to make Þing 1 day event, or continue with 2-3 day event.
Pros on 1 day event: Less food/kitchen trouble, especially if site lacks kitchen; less risk of heat being a problem; easy way to ensure event remains local (eg: local large building such as UUCH).
Cons on 1 day event: Difficult to include sumbl, seidhr; less time for non-administrative events, particularly blots and workshops; little time for community-building (social time, everyone working together to ensure the multi-day event runs well, etc.)

We are also split on how far away a 2-3 day event could be.
Pros: If proposed site is near the mountains, it might be cooler; further distance away offers broader choice of sites/facilities/costs.
Cons: Þing business meeting should be easy to get to/attend.
Steph to come to next Rede meeting with
more info on "local" sites.
Dan to email hof-members, asking about:
folk's preference on 1 day vs 2-3 days, preference on distance; Dan also to recommend folks join Hof-talk and answer there.

II. Upcoming Year
Logo: Dan to pull together a membership meeting OR a Hof-talk discussion to brainstorm logo imagery and choose volunteers to do the artwork.
Website: Steph, Stacey, Jag, Phil and Ana to look at the website and begin the update/revision process. Steph to make list of all outdated info, content errors, and aesthetic changes and send them to Jag. Stacey agreed to help edit content.
501(c)(3): Jag will continue working on 501(c)(3) preparation and Phil volunteered to assist as able.
Land Fund: Cynthia will providing CSQ's example of Land Fund wording, and Dan will e-mail a version out for review/discussion.

III. Hof Storage: A list of Hof items will be generated for Hof items. Dan will begin the list and ask others to add to it. The can then be reviewed at a later meeting and a storage solution recommended.

IV. Budget: Phil presented handouts of corrected budget from 2007-08. It was determined that a cash-flow table would complete the previous year's budget, and corrections will be made and approved at the next Rede meeting.
Budget 2008-09 was approved pending the decisions regarding Þing 2009.

V. Business Cards: Business cards are available from either Dan or Ana.

VI. Conflict of Interest: A Hof CoI statement needs to be added to the website and incorporated into the Rede/Hof wiki.
Reminder: Phil, Jag, Ana, Stacey- Please remember to add the CoI statement to
the wiki and/or HOf website, as part of 'web presence/tools' plans.

VII. Browsable Rede Minutes / wiki: Hof-member, and Rede-only access wiki's discussed. The general concensus was that this would be a good way to centralize minutes and increase their browsability. If implemented, we agreed to use it.

VIII. Notes:
Phil needs to grant Jenn access to website for posting Minutes.
Jenn needs to submit bio to Phil/Jag/Ana for the Rede member listing on website.