July 1 2024 Executive Board Meeting Notes
- Attendance: Ross Cowman, Chris Pramas, Beth Damis, Rei Kong, Lyla Ross, John Grant
- Agenda:
- Check-ins
- Notes Review
- Commitment Review
- Membership Level Review
- Student Membership
- Events Calendars
- Wiki Access
- Discord
- Commitment Review
- Notes Review
- Approved.
- Commitment Review
- Rai will have old notes uploaded to wiki for next meeting for review - done for last week
- Group will review and approve old notes at next meeting - done
- Ross to put together a list of who has access to our digital accounts + set up a way of tracking “digital key holders” on airtable - in process
- Ross will connect with John Grant (on FB) via Beth introduction - done
- Membership Level Review
- Review of membership levels and copy
- Guest memberships?
- Free and gives some access to a few channels in discord
- Offers some connection to org without paying for full memberships
- Potential names: Individual Non-Voting Membership? Supporting Membership? Community Membership?
- Should they be able to participate in a committee or workgroup?
- Not for now
- What about folks that are no longer/not currently in the industry? (Retirees, industry “alumni”)
- Change Professional Membership name to Voting Individual Membership
- Change Affiliate name to Corporate Affiliate
- Changing Guest membership to Supporting membership
- Proposal: Create a supporting Membership level that is free?
- Unanimously approved.
- Student Memberships?
- Could we offer a student/new professional level membership?
- Shows that we value new contributors to the industry?
- How to define “student”?
- We want to make our industry approachable
- Is this potentially more for “new professional” folks
- Or “equity discount”? - marginalised identity or hardship, self-identified
- Allow people to also donate to equity fund during checkout/other
- Proposal: for a self-identified equity discount of 50% (for folks belonging to a marginalized identity or experiencing financial hardship)
- Unanimous approved.
- Events Calendar
- Google calendar linked to TGA gmail account
- All secretaries have access
- All meetings in one place
- If someone wants to join a meeting, talk to the secretary and ask for an invite https://www.tabletopgamealliance.org/events/
- Wiki Access
- If not able to access wiki and you should be able to, contact Ross
- Discord
- With soft launch, moving to Discord
- We’ll start having all of our text conversations there
- If you have proposals, let Beau and Ross know
- Commitment Review
- Ross to finish setting up a way of tracking “digital key holders” on airtable
- Beth to complete Code of Conduct review
- Ross to make changes to membership level names
- For anyone who is getting corporate memberships, send Ross their employees so he can get them set up
- Meeting adjourned 5.23pm
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