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	** Mai: Need to concretize our ask, requires fine-tuning our goals		** Mai: Need to concretize our ask, requires fine-tuning our goals
	** Jenny: Can start making more regular posts on the Patreon page and tweet/post back linking to the patreon posts		** Jenny: Can start making more regular posts on the Patreon page and tweet/post back linking to the patreon posts

			* jnny: Bounties for those who solve bugs, eg Signal's implementation of BitHub: https://signal.org/blog/bithub/

	* Marc: Would be good to set up a meeting with Mei Lin, very well-connected, to also potential corporate sponsors		* Marc: Would be good to set up a meeting with Mei Lin, very well-connected, to also potential corporate sponsors

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Sudo Mesh Accounting WG Meeting #2 - 5/8/2018

== Attendees ==
* Ben, Mai, Jenny, robb, Marc
* Facilitator: Mai

== Last Meeting's Action Items ==
(From https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Accounting/1_May_2018 )

* set up finance@sudomesh.org and add accounting wg members [jenny]
** done! currently finance@sudomesh.org forwards to ben, robb, mai & jenny
* info on seller's permit / wholesale resale [jenny]
** in the drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1asN70i64Eogc8cSy5gfhSVK3ezbD-Xae
* inventory of our equipment [mai + ben + everyone!]
** date? 5-8pm on the Thurs May 17th?
* let's look for additional grant money [mai] / patreon campaign
** jnny added some stuff: https://trello.com/b/4N4GSasC/fundraising
** see also: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Funding
* Port existing purchasing spreadsheet to a Google Form, then work out some combination of the integrations below [mai]
** Trello, Rocket.chat, email (Jenny can set up finance@peoplesopen.net)
** The draft purchasing request form (uses jotform) is here: https://form.jotform.com/81277415196159
*** Added link to https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Accounting
** Requests are automatically added to the Trello: https://trello.com/b/Hz2DAmLW/accounting-finance
** Would be nice to consolidate into a single rocket.chat channel.
*** jenny will set up teh webhook
* Bi-weekly finance meetings (this time?)
** here we are!
* Locked petty cash box for discretionary funds; e.g. buying zip ties on the day of a node mount (robb/jenny)
** ongoing, looking for a good box

== Discussion: Fundraising ==
* Ben: Haven't had any new patreon patrons in about a month
** Mai: Need to concretize our ask, requires fine-tuning our goals
** Jenny: Can start making more regular posts on the Patreon page and tweet/post back linking to the patreon posts

* Marc: Would be good to set up a meeting with Mei Lin, very well-connected, to also potential corporate sponsors
** others willing to join said meeting, get advice

* Mozilla Grant: need to schedule a meeting to see where we're at on that
** Marc: should make a video. we have some stock footage
*** Sierk has been taking some footage
**** also the guy who filmed the last BYOI
***** would be nice to have a huge file server on the mesh to dump this kind of stuff
****** noemie has some footage, currently has jenny's hard drive. marc also has some, will give to robb
** Draft of Round 2 written answers here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jaMwjvCEiNETpSZRHJlmGPBWgi6vErHHTNoXVBOi2ow
*** Make next week's meeting focused around the mozilla challenge?

== Discussion: Purchasing Request Form ==
* Form lives here: https://form.jotform.com/81277415196159 then send to accounting/finance trello as well as finance@sudomesh.org
* Condensed description + cost + number of units
* Submitted forms will forward requests to finance@sudomesh.org
* Will be added to sudomesh account wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Accounting

== Future Steps ==
* Mai: Spinning off another entity eg worker coop or another nonprofit, for paid maintainers/staff?
** consumer coop consisting of users, who pay maintainers
** worker coop made up of maintainers
*** robb: definitely brings up liability issues
*** ben: and concretize accountability, what people receive and expect in return for $
**** jenny: we got another Directors & Officers insurance quote... for $7K :P (for context, Omni's annual premium is $2K)

== Action Items ==
* Read seller's permit documents: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1asN70i64Eogc8cSy5gfhSVK3ezbD-Xae (ALL?)
* Ask group whether they can come to sudomesh cage inventory on Thurs May 17 5-8pm
** ben - Added announcement to tonight's meeting notes
** Note: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory exists and really needs some love, or should be deprecated for a spreedsheat.
* Share sketch of mesh storage reorg (jenny)
* Look through Trello for grants/fundraising: https://trello.com/b/4N4GSasC/fundraising
* Integrate Incoming Purchases List to automatically be sent to Rocket.Chat [jenny]
* Locked petty cash box for discretionary funds; e.g. buying zip ties on the day of a node mount (robb/jenny)
* Arrange a fundraising consulting meeting with Mei Lin (juul)
* Open an account w/ Beneficial (jenny)
* Set up a redirect for budget request form - https://sudomesh.org/budgetrequest (jenny)

== Last Meeting Notes ==
* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Accounting/1_May_2018

== End of Meeting ==
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the sudomesh wiki
* then please erase the contents of this pad
* then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mesh/Accounting/Template&action=edit
* previous meeting notes are archived here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes

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Tunabananas at 08:26, 9 May 2018

Tunabananas: Created page with "Sudo Mesh Accounting WG Meeting #2 - 5/8/2018 == Attendees == * Ben, Mai, Jenny, robb, Marc * Facilitator: Mai == Last Meeting's Action Items == (From https://sudoroom.org/w..."