September 13, 2020 ZA Board Meeting Minutes

September 13, 2020 Zimfest Association Board Meeting Synopsis

Members in Attendance: Daniel Lockley, Jacqueline Fallon, Chris Halaska, Tendai Muparutsa, Janis Weeks, Alex Weeks
Members Absent: Drew Turner, Mandy Walker-LaFollette
Non-voting member in attendance: Claire Jones

Review Agenda (All)

Approve August Minutes/Synopsis (All)

Approved

Volunteer Follow-Up (Alex)

Alex is hoping to talk to someone potentially interested in joining the Board before the next meeting.

Board Membership (All)

We need to think about recruiting another board member.

Tech Committee Report (Janis)

The Tech Committee evaluated the 2 applicants for the Digital Media Curator and made a decision. Larry is working on Zimfest website redesign. Privacy Policy is still in progress and needs to be completed soon. There is ongoing maintenance/enhancement of platform functionalities, e.g., RegFox reporting, monitoring/alerting for software infrastructure anomalies.

Zimfest 2020 Report (Claire)

Started registrations for access to Zimfest Online recordings: https://zimfest.org/festival/zimfest-online/

West Coast Wildfire Support (All)

Is there anything we can do as an organization? Writing a blog post, with links to reputable fundraising organizations might be a good idea.

Becca in Santa Cruz lost their marimbas and a lot of buildings on their property – Alex will reshare the GoFundMe on the Zimfest page

Kutsinhira Memorial for Cosmas (Janis)

Oct 10, 11AM – 1PM PST

Next Meeting

Sunday October 11th, 6:30 pm Pacific time on Zoom