Members in Attendance: Mandy Walker-LaFollette, Tendai Muparutsa, Heather Steele, Maria Minnaar Bailey, Caden Davis, Jesse Larson, Parker Ediger, Claire Jones, Angela Marie
Members Absent: Charlie Keziah, Michael Sibanda
Non-voting members in attendance: Jake Roberts (for Trademark Task Force and Tech Committee updates)
Meeting lead: Maria
Notes taker: Mandy
Was a quorum of Board members present?: Yes
February Notes/Minutes
Approved over email. Mandy will send to Larry.
Brokerage Account (Heather, Maria)
The Board has decided that Maria Minnaar Bailey and Heather Steele will be the authorized account representatives on Zimfest Association’s brokerage account. They will move forward with Adrienne’s contact.
Zimfest 2025 Recording Project (Claire, Parker)
All groups have responded with permission to use the songs.
We are planning to create a downloadable document with the liner notes and elements of the 2025 graphic, so have requested descriptions from bands; slowly getting responses. We are close to getting mixed/mastered versions!
We need a volunteer to draft the liner notes once the text is ready. Caden has offered to do this. Mandy will add Caden and Jesse to Zimfest’s Canva “team.”
We are also working on one final royalties question.
Grant Writing (Maria)
Audrey is still interested in helping Zimfest with grant writing. It would be good if there was a person on the board willing to work with Audrey on grant writing. Claire is still interested in doing this. Maria will connect them.
Tech Committee Update (Mandy)
The Tech Committee’s focus is on infrastructure rather than doing tasks directly. They can help build the infrastructure needed for tasks to be done by Board members and passed on efficiently to future members.
The current priorities the Tech Committee is working on are:
- Changing Zimfest’s domain registrar
- Setting up access control policies across the various platforms Zimfest uses
Transition: Bookkeeper Position (Maria, Parker)
Gary Spalter is looking to transfer bookkeeping duties to someone else; Parker is very interested in this position, and the Board is happy to have Parker work with Gary to take over these responsibilities, in a volunteer capacity for the time being.
We will need someone else to take over the fundraising role on the Board; we will revisit this next month.
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