August 2025

Overview

Zoom

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Meeting ID: 750 660 4772

Current Board Members

Wax, David, Aye, Lotus, Hatter, Whatever, Tovia, Hazmat, JaydeRaven

Board Members Attending

Wax, Hatter, Whatever, Tovia, JaydeRaven

Upcoming Board Meetings

  • Sunday September 14th, 2025 @ 8pm

Meeting Agenda

Review Prior Meeting Minutes

  • July board minutes for posting
  • Please reference  July 2025 
  • Motion to publish minutes Wax/Whatever
  • Voted unanimously to publish

Proposals

  •  No Confidence proposal  to complete work and vote in September
  •  Board Meeting Notes Review Procedure   also vote in September
  • Event procurement proposal still in process
  • Wax has reached out to folks, no replies yet
  • Generative AI proposal - tabling until post-Constellation
  • Culturally there seems to be a shift happening e.g. AI slop, "clankers"
  • Want to engage with the community first

New Business

  • ?

Old Business

  • Callbox replacement
  • All parts have arrived and construction is underway
  • New antenna mounting solution works well and is much more robust
  • Radios should be able to be stored in the boxes and only removed to be charged pre-event
  • Annual reports
  •  2023 Annual Report 
  • Just need P&L fix from Whatever, then ready to publish
  •  2024 Annual Report 
  • Schedule work session - 1 hour, let's work on it together!
  •  2025 Annual Report 
  • Initial draft document created
  • Radios replacement - complete
  • If radios are stored in callboxes, new foam not needed

Events

MALC

  • Wax sent thank email to anonymous donor

Playa Del Fuego

  • PDF Leadership retreat happened 8/1ish
  • Roughed out an event calendar with major events/comms/procurements
  • Board signed up to talk to landowners about
  • Road improvements
  • Once again asking for on-site storage
  • Marking city planning with spray paint (spray chalk is probably not water-resistant)
  • Lots of tech requests
  • Want to add "i understand this is a burn and will abide by the principles" as a checkbox when signing a waiver
  • Want a post-event Quail log to capture hours worked on site
  • Want to get away from emails for VRTP
  • Connecting part station/gate/greeters to give immediate feedback on signups
  • Want to train new embiggeners
  • Someone other than Wax should do the next one
  • Targetting Mar 3rd, Apr 1st in 2026 for ticket sales
  • Minor tickets upped to $15 to cover landowner costs
  • Leave them open throughout event
  • Next year site visit is booked
  • That time of year is already getting booked up
  • Afterburn due by end of year

Constellation

    Reduce ticket cap?
    Other orgs that do two a year do a smaller burn for the second
    Set up production timeline from Board down?
    CHORE: Whatever/Whoever to forward insurance info to Tovia to do opening whatever
    CHORE: Whatever to find last year's policy

Committees

Governance & Finance

  • On hold till Dave gets back
  • CHORE: Whatever/Dave to follow up on Tovia's access to Schwab
  • TAXES due on Nov 15

Operations

  • See PDF Retreat notes
  • UTVs require some modified methods for managing keys
  • Colored/Labeled lanyards
  • CHORE: JaydeRaven to look into whether or not keys are interchangeable
  • CHORE: JaydeRaven looking into a governor to manage speed

Safety

  • Wax reached out to friend in disaster preparedness, their expertise not really applicable
  • Still want to work on a unified disaster plan

Technology

  • Setting up for Quail at Constellation
  • Investigating a few dead keys on Chromebooks (i?)
  • i.e. the i an e keys
  • Sanctuary will be centrally located at CB, so WiFi should work
  • Approximately where Camp Dreadful was last year
  • Centrally located, hopefully can position so it's not loud in there
  • Becomes a placement job to keep the neighborhood quiet
  • May need to purchase our own Wifi router (used Uncle Awesome's at PDF)
  • CHORE: Wax is gonna just buy a thing

Conduct

  • Voted in four new members, their first meeting will be September
  • BEGIN EXECUTIVE SESSION
  • END EXECUTIVE SESSION
  • Wax is hoping to get serious about Penguin(s) post CB
  • Has to update Peacock first

Bike Rack

Grab any balls you see getting dropped


Motion to End Meeting Wax/Whatever
Voted unanimously