Official MTF Meetings

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  • Organizational & Financial Update

    • $440.11$ to our name

    • Owed $360.00 for TechCamp 2014 ticket sales

      • Owe Eventbrite $80.64 in fees

    • $200 donation from MidsouthMakers

      • Joe lost the check, working with MM to reissue

    • What if individuals want to donate to us? (this? http://www.memphistechnology.org/donate/)

  • Recap Super User Group Meetup

  • Recap Mentoring Office Hours

    • next steps for continued mentoring

  • Report from Bryan and Brad about Adopt-A-School meet and greet

  • What to offer businesses for sponsorships

    • Advertisment (Possible Tax Implications)

    • Multi event sponsorships

    • Want Swanson’s input as well

  • Upcoming Events

    • SuperLunch - May 29

    • HACKmemphis - Sept 11-13

    • TechCamp Memphis - October 17 (tentative)

    • BSides Memphis - October?

  • Where does MTF end and #memtech begin?

    • "If you have something that is grassroots for and by the community, it is #memtech. If you need organizational support, that’s MTF"

    • Where is the line?

    • Should we be branding Meetup group as MTF?

  • Outreach

    • Getting out of the #memtech Silo

Minutes:

  • Attended by Bryan Robinson, Brad Montgomery, Claudio Donndelinger, Joe Ferguson

  • Bryan Robinson Read the minutes from the last board meeting

  • Discussed Old business

    • Better User Group attendance specifically before MTF events

    • Code of Conduct

      • Should we adopt or just recommend?

      • Should we sponsor events that lack code of conduct?

      • How do we enforce or help enforce?

        • Events should have a well posted phone number or contact for help if needed by attendees

    • Send a note to Memtech admin to get newsletter content

      • Do a featured user group per month

  • Chair gave financial info and organizational info

    • $440.11$ to our name

    • Owed $360.00 for TechCamp 2014 ticket sales

      • Owe Eventbrite $80.64 in fees

    • $200 donation from MidsouthMakers

    • Officially a 501(c)3, retroactively since last year

      • If any donor wants a letter of proof, we can provide

  • Super User group discussion

    • 55 attendance

    • new faces

      • Start co’s presence was felt to a degree

    • Food was awesome, but the Vaco handoff from Diane was a little off, but they pulled out

  • Start Co. partnership discussion

    • Reasonable job advertising Tech Office Groups

    • Lower job advertising Super User Group

      • Make sure we send them info on things going on

    • Need to be more specific with what we need from them

  • Mentoring office hours discussion

    • Good event

    • Glad to see it happen

    • MTF should take a more active role as advisors and helpers

    • Helped reach outside of the #memtech silo

    • Going to happen, hopefully, monthly. Date TBD

  • Adopt a School Meet and Greet

    • Lot of people interested in Tech

    • 60% are "no idea what we want"

    • Handful want teaching for parents and teachers

    • Reach out to Justin about his Learn43 and HackNight

    • Disparity among schools in shelby county

    • Should we do a Young Coders at one of the less fortunate schools?

    • Coder Dojo?

    • Facilitate

      • Computer donations that get turned down from Makers?

      • Make a list?

      • Finding speakers and such

      • Schools knowing about things happening (black girls code, 100 girls of code, coder dojo, justin geeslin)

  • Sponsorship discussion

    • Can’t do actual sponsorship

    • Reach out to Julia at CFGM to find out what we can do for donations?

    • Reach out to companies to see what they’d like

  • Upcoming events

    • super lunch

    • HACKmemphis Sept. 11-13

      • Need to find sponsors

    • TechCamp Oct. 17

    • B-Sides

      • don’t conflict techcamp with b-sides or have b-sides as a track?

      • Check with Lissner about what’s needed and when b-sides will happen and etc.

  • Where does MTF end and #memtech begin?

    • Open Source vs A Company running open source

    • Meetup Mentors

      • Compile list of Meetup (organizer) mentors

      • Connect people needing help organizing with a mentor

  • https://org.amazon.com/

    • sign up for amazing smile

  • Outreach discussion

    • Recruiters

    • Can we get people in the community talking to people outside the community

    • Find one person in corporations we want

    • CIO of Memphis talked with Joe and Brian

    • Bryan will work on some collateral