Mike, can you hear me? I think by audio. Okay. The audio says it's still connecting.
Yep, you're good.
Okay.
You, hey, Clark, how are you? I suspect folks are Scramble to find the meeting You posted it, but as other things get posted, it gets buried.
Yeah. Let's give people a few minutes. Let me mess up the mic again.
Let me message. Less again.
Look how your project going.
I finished everything. I've turned it all in. I still have to do the sound editing and like the archiving piece of it, but I'm very relieved to have completed the interview process for this part of the project.
Fantastic. Congratulations.
Thank you so much. I graduated yesterday actually, so I'm excited to have.
Oh, even better.
How are you doing?
I'm doing okay, so you're free now.
Yeah, thank goodness.
Let's see, it's less refines us.
See you Jeffrey's, special day.
Host has another meeting in progress. Wonder if there's 2 because it's special.
Do you want to log in info so you can text it to them?
Okay.
I'm gonna pull it from the zoom itself so that I know that's the one that we want see participants 3 copy invite length okay
Okay, Jeffrey joined.
There's Jeffrey. Okay, let's see if Les. Just there's 97 items on the agenda and 90 of them are lessons.
Hmm.
Jeffrey G.
Hello.
Greetings.
Hey Chap.
See if I can get my camera working.
There we go.
There you go.
Here we go. So much orange.
No.
Huh.
Okay.
It's gonna say wishful thinking on your part, Miss James.
I used to work for a company and part of the Entrance exam was what Panatone color orange was part of the company logo.
I used to know what it was.
Okay. Okay.
Okay, let's see. It's less reappearing. I'm still getting the another meeting in progress message.
Right.
Yeah, I got that message, but I just sat still for a second and it popped in. Did you?
Did you like see me on the list and say join or what?
I saw you awaiting, waiting to join.
Yeah, so I think that he's probably seeing the same thing. So.
Let me tell him that.
So it's said it host is in another meeting, but then you you must have clicked something that let me in.
Hi Clark, I don't think the Matt nice to meet you.
Good to meet you. How are you doing?
Good.
Okay. I'm showing 5 participants 4 on camera. Maybe the other person is.
Less on his way in.
See in the waiting room?
How weird.
I'm not showing. Anybody in the waiting room. But I'm only showing well 4 people somebody is in and not on camera.
Oh, yes, here he is. There he is.
Connecting. Great.
That's cannot. I want to unmute him.
Let's see. There you are.
Okay.
I've heard it, Grant. He must be coming. There he is.
Right.
Yeah. Well, that's a big wall paper you have.
Yeah, is there a way I can reverse it?
It looks right to me. Yeah.
Leave it alone.
No, it looks correct to us. It looks correct to us. We don't care what you see last, it looks good for us.
It looks correct here.
What? Okay. Oh, okay.
Yes.
It's always a mirror image of yourself.
Alright. Yes.
Yes, raise your left hand. Yeah, so it looks like your right hand from here, but I know from your, yeah.
It looks like your right hand does.
Okay, oh very good.
Okay, sorry about the I think because of the special. And I'm juggling 2 computers.
I think because of the special announcement, that's why we got dualing meeting. Set up so sorry about that folks.
Okay.
And there's a ton on the agenda, but I think since we have a lot of it is kind of reporting.
What's happening and a lot of it is what Les is doing. So. That's kind of already written down, which is great.
Yeah.
Yes, I think Clark is the only person who's not already on the central committee and Jeffrey has met him last year working with Clark.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. And Mike met him too. So Clark, congratulations. He said you just graduated.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
Great. Okay. So the agenda has a bunch of stuff that we're just gonna race through.
Yep.
If that's okay with people. Less p town and flyers for that. When is P town?
The middle of July.
Oh, okay, so we have a little time before. Let me tell.
Yeah.
Buyers needed mid July. So I have asked.
Gary Turner for a copy of the digital assets. Of the project, but I haven't gotten anything from him.
Huh.
I'll ask him again because I'd rather not, you know, like copy from our current logo version to try to turn something into a flyer but I'll ask the logo etc. If anyone is interested in putting together.
Either business cards or flyers that we can print and less can bring to P town. Let's get a volunteer going for that.
Okay.
Jeffrey taught me how to do a. Qr code that we can use. Again, what we should probably do is a link to the Wiki, maybe a link to the website, even though we have work to do on the website.
And maybe a link directly to the interview page for people to get the sign the waver form for interviewing.
Yup.
So. If anybody is interested in that, then.
Okay.
Let's get that going. I'll just leave that as is for now. Books, flyer.
Sign up. Treasury skills. Okay, so that's I say the chief thing is we're looking for a treasurer or what I call the financial bear.
So that less can name the initial board of directors. And I've put out word, I've had one hard no from somebody who is over committed.
But I haven't had anybody, any other interest from anybody who is financially. Bent.
So here's the.
Anybody here so inclined to be our first? st Financial there. Like you're not allowed to say yes.
Here's the deal where we've got a predicament. You can't do business at a corporation without a treasurer.
Yeah.
Okay. And we've been doing this for at least 3 months. I'll jump in for 3 months and then I'm out.
Yeah, you've got too much going on.
I can't, I just can't take on one more project. Hey, we've got we're gonna run afoul of the secretarial state.
Yeah.
We're gonna follow the attorney general. We're gonna have a issue. So.
We've done that a couple of times.
Give me. Just to notice the looking for somebody who, you know, who's, there's gotta be somebody who's experienced in this, though you have done it a couple of times.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We, yeah. We have and the problem, Jeff is. Any time you've got somebody handling money, you really need to know they are.
So.
Yeah. Yeah. And I also had a question because I know I've been in other organizations that do it.
And I don't know how it would work electronically, but they require 2 signatures.
For any expenses being paid.
Yeah, I mean we can cross that bridge when we get to it the problem with 2 signatures that you need The banks are a pain in the ass, so they typically want both people to come in the bank at the same time.
Yup, yup.
And so you've gotta have those 2 signatories being the same city. I don't know that we've got anybody in the same city.
Yeah.
I mean, Jeffrey and I both live in the Palm Springs area. I'm there.
Yeah.
Yeah. Mel and I are both Bay Area. Well, there's more people in Bay Area.
Like, 20% of the time now. So, Yeah. Yeah. But if I'm taking on the treasure duties, I gotta go into the bank.
Yeah.
So maybe we start out with one signature and revisit that because I don't think anything's gonna happen.
Yeah.
Other than in the next 3 months of event open the account and potentially deposit money.
Well, and everyone bear in mind. The the lesson of mr. The one last little bite.
Of chocolate made him blow up. So.
I was wondering where you're going with that, but yes, I do remember that.
What?
No, I'm just saying in my case I'm 1 more, you know, little duty.
That he may blow up.
No, Clark on the other hand, I have no idea what the we're talking about because we're all old.
Okay.
I put in a note to my friend Mark Patatan. He was our treasurer, from Bears of San Francisco.
And he has been, he's expressed an interest in helping out. He, he was, like I said, he was on board at 1st in San Francisco, same time I was. So I sent him a quick text message.
Maybe you can get them out there. He's in offspring as well.
Great.
So.
And I got a couple other people in mind. If I don't care anything back from him.
There we are.
I sent a note to, Andy. Directly the other day that our LA person because he's the one that said there's financial software that he suggested we might use but I don't have the I don't have the name of what it was.
And that might help us with, oh, you need 2 people with bank associations, but they don't, I mean, this would be designed for like a worldwide nonprofit where the 2 people are not necessarily co-located.
So that might be, you know, your bank needs to vouch for who you are, but we don't need to have you sign or you can sign electronically or whatever.
So I haven't heard that from him. I'll ping him again on that finance piece of the financial side.
Okay, so with Les's permission, I'm gonna step in starting today. As soon as you get somebody, I'll resign in.
You guys can appoint that person so at least I can get the legal filings done.
Yeah.
Great, okay.
Cause we need a tax ID number. I need to designate the initial board and the treasure for the Secretary of State and I've got to get that packet over the Attorney General.
Yeah.
And then we're we're good to go from the perspective of an entity. But any money that we take in is not tax deductible until we get our 5, 0 1 c 3.
Yeah.
From the feds and I can't do that for us.
I think. We've got some piece of mail which I thought indicated we have a text.
Taxpayer ID.
But I will look again. We got like 3 pieces of physical mail.
Okay, I know you got something from the franchise tax board.
Yeah.
Yeah, would that not have?
It's fantastic.
Yeah.
That's not a tax ID number. The IRS gives us a tax ID number. And they wouldn't have done that without the paperwork being filed.
Okay. Alright, well thanks Mike. And, so Les, I think you have what you need to form the board.
Yeah.
Great. Okay.
So question, Mike, I mean, I don't know who mailed it to. Who has the list of people?
Okay.
You emailed me a list that so I could go through my emails and find it.
Okay. And, add your name. And I will look also. Yeah.
Okay.
Is that I probably printed it out but you know my bear history project. International firefolders about.
This thick and unsorted.
Yeah.
Okay, thanks guys. Yeah, Les.
Oh, yeah, I will volunteer that. To design a flyer and a business card and can send them to you.
I have a look over.
Yeah. I'm looking at you can't you see.
Okay.
You meaning me? Sure, fine. Yeah, you're leaning off to my right. So I wasn't sure and I'm looking off to my left.
I just have a quick question. What's the main reason for business cards and flyers? I mean, we're kind of in a digital age.
What's the main reason for business cards at flyers? I mean, we're kind of in a digital age here, so I'm surprised that.
Print media is still a necessity.
Okay.
We want if people walk up to a booth at petown and other things We wanna be able to either have them scan, you're right, digital.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
We want them to either be able to take something away or scam something or both.
QR code.
Yeah, or like.
Well, it sounds like scanning and there's no reason for them to take something away. I mean, if they everybody's gonna have their phone, they can scan a QR code and be done with it.
There's no, I don't understand why we need to pass out business card. I don't like anybody these days.
And maybe you guys do, but I don't, nobody does business cards these days, or flowers.
Well, we need to have some place to put the QR code on for people to scan.
Yeah, well, you print out a printer and tape it to the desk and you're good to go.
So Les, we want is what I mentioned, what we want is. A code for the interview page, a code for the Wiki, a code for the website.
Sure. Yeah.
Okay.
Okay. And if you need help with that, Bill, I'll. Right not a piece of paper that's got 3 code on it that says one for the wiki one for the website one for the interview, you know, whatever, but that's really all you need is just set it on the table there, laminate it if you need to.
I mean even that's not even necessary these days. But. It just seems like it's less busy work than trying to get flyers printed in and bandage that by by 2 cents.
Well, and it's also no cost.
Yeah.
Yeah, and we also we're not any farther along on a new vendor for, merchandise, t-shirts or whatever.
So That's another thing that someone else can work on, but we don't have. I don't know that's gonna happen before July.
Maybe I'll put a nudge mail because he was All gung ho on. Let's find a vendor who can just ship us, you know, 30 t-shirts or whatever and the central committee can.
Afford to, you know, fund that. Okay, Les, you have a bunch of notes about organization and interviews that are coming.
Yeah. Well.
We have one scheduled for tomorrow morning. I don't know what the rest of you doing at 8 am, but less I'd say we have a dozen interviews done, something like that.
Yeah.
13 or 14. So we've got a bunch done. I'm gonna nudge Mel.
On the like when are we ever going to help do something about them. Because I feel like we're potentially losing momentum of We're not beginning to schedule all putting some content together to tease people at least with podcasts.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
Clark, what were you saying about your archiving project? Was that also? Were you were there interview type things involved or yes, okay.
Yeah, so that was an oral history project. It's a little different because I didn't release it as a podcast.
It was something that I archived online and then linked to another digital archive, which is how that would be accessible.
So we're thinking of doing a podcast kind of the methodology for how we're going to promote that is going to be a little different.
Okay, well we're in a bit of a conundrum because Mel is also somebody who you know he was in that big car accident as a pedestrian and in his husband or both, you know, they struggled back to work and he's got, you know, He has 3 jobs, but he's the one that really has this vision of our podcast but only ping him on When are we ever gonna, you
know? Get going on that. Because we need other ideas if it's not going to be him.
And that.
If there are any like material ways I can help him out with that, just let me know. And I'll do whatever it is that needs to be done with all that.
Okay, so What we've done so far is we, you know what, I don't think you have access to.
We have a list of about 80 bears now who we at least want to interview. It's in a spreadsheet and there's some current list of The list of who we've done is pretty current and it's like, well, here's there's a file.
We did interview them. We have the waver form or not. We've done about a dozen people.
So. Let me give you access to that and. Generally the contents are also in a dropbox.
Well, that's in a, in a Google Drive. The actual contents are in.
A Dropbox folder. And, you know, let me just send you a link to that and you can kind of see what we've done before and some of it might.
You might say, oh, you know what? Well, Mel's idea was Let's look for common themes of let's do a podcast which is people coming out in general and just do you know 2 min of 5 people with their coming out story and then let's do 2 min of.
What do 5 people think of their definition of bears or you know kind of slice it that way? And we've got a little momentum going with about a dozen in the can or so.
And then Andy, who's in LA, might also help as well, but he's He's an intermittent committee member.
Okay.
So. Okay. And less have you just side like, have you heard back from who are we looking for the waiver from Charlie have you gotten from him?
Okay. And then.
Yeah, I haven't heard from him, no I didn't, I did email him again when I, when I emailed you.
Okay.
And I'm not clear if you've got like health problems or he's just. You know, disorganized.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. What are we do an interview you hear me put pressing on people just like. If you can print it out, then just sign it and take a picture with your phone and that's good enough.
Yep.
He almost held up the form during our interview and I wanted to say that's it. This hold it up.
Just hold it up. Let me take a picture of that. So that's kind of all we need.
Yes.
So, you'll hear me in future interview saying the same thing because we really wanna make sure not to lose.
The waver piece. Remember we stumbled over what's his name? And the waiver idea.
Oh. Yeah
Yes. And, Mike, again, thank you for your input on that one. We just let that go because we couldn't come to agreement about.
Yeah, yeah.
The copyright second.
Yes.
That's fine. Are the waivers now for bare history? Project International. Okay, so I just need to assign the ones that were signed.
Before that give the rights to less. I need to assign those rights over to the corporation.
Okay, yeah.
Okay.
So they don't need to do anything less will sign the assignment.
Okay.
Okay, doing business ask. This is now our international bear.
And. Yeah.
Oh, we have 2 interviews coming up. Max Christopher tomorrow and Sunny Haines next week.
I, you know, I've gone back to the, list that we have. And have been going down an order and I have a half a dozen people I've reached out to.
Over the last 2 or 3 weeks I have not heard back from So in the meantime, I'm moving forward with people.
You know, I'm networking now with the research on my book. Which is how Sonny and Max are next in line.
Good. Okay. Yeah, I think we're at a pretty good pace of. You know, if it's gonna be generally you and me, we're doing sort of.
Yeah.
You know, 2 a day is a max a couple of week is a Mac. So, I think that's going pretty well.
Yeah.
Oh, Jeffrey, since you're here. We had mentioned, so I'm looking at my continuing list of the agenda, although it's now not in the doesn't have the right numbers but we have a note about Database and website.
So you had mentioned. We have 2 kind of competing website needs because we have a website. Domain that Les is sitting on and has been paying for.
But it's got content that we want to update to be about the bear history project international. And you had mentioned you might be able to help with that.
Yeah. Yeah.
But we haven't talked about it again.
Yeah, I, it's just, I just need to know what the needs are exactly.
So, or we've got 2 websites we need to host. And I Okay.
No, no, we have 2. We have 2 needs. So we have a current website that points at some content that Les did.
Yep.
Okay.
And we it's we're having trouble working with the person who's hosting it so we kind of need a you know domain redirect and then we need a place to build A new one.
Yeah.
I use like Yolo or you know, I used other things but We need something that we can kind of.
So it sounds like what I'll probably do is I'll just look at the building. A WordPress site somewhere.
Finding out someplace to host it. And then, that way, it, that way it handles permissions, access.
You know, it's just an easier way to go. And there's a whole bunch of manage WordPress.
Companies that are out there that are pretty cheap. So, if need be, I could always just spend something up on a Google virtual box or something like that.
But I prefer a manage WordPress. I'll price them out. And, and see what's out there.
There's gotta be something that's pretty reasonable.
Great.
Yeah, and the page that's up there now is WordPress.
Yeah, so we'll just figure out, you know, you said this just a single page anyway, right?
Not much.
Yeah, it does. Yeah.
Yeah. So.
Yeah, I think the hard part is we're gonna have to work with the current. Domain name holder.
Yeah, the C name stuff. But you're
The register. Yeah. Yeah, and that's usually pretty easy, but, but. But I think, Les has one has access to that, correct?
We, looked at it a little bit, didn't we last?
Yeah, yeah, correct.
And who did we figure out who's hosting it?
I think so.
Isn't it Go Daddy? Do I remember that right?
I could do a quick who is here. what's the actual domain name?
Bear history.org.
Hey, okay.
Yeah, I have 3 different domains. And I think they're each hosted by somebody different.
Yeah. Alright, see that these are set up by domain by proxy. Through Godaddy. So yeah.
Yeah.
So as long as you have access to your Godaddy account, it's pretty easy to change the team, see names and do what we need there.
Did we decide if we were going to attach an email to those or not?
We, we didn't decide that yet. We were set thinking we need at least one, but not a
Oh.
Okay, Yeah, the emails are usually go daddy will charge by the actual email or you can get a web package but I think just a single email is probably enough for you know like an info or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
And, and then, you know, just have everybody just, you know, somebody can manage that and it can be easily passed off to someone else to manage as well.
So, so I'll go in, put it down here to look those up and then I'll talk to, last about.
Getting it pointing to wherever.
Great. Oh, here's Mel. Mel missed the meeting.
Okay.
He's still meeting. I'm gonna waiting. Oh, he's in the waiting room.
He says, okay. Let me. Oh, yes. Here he is.
Let me let him in.
Just off the top, I just checked, but Godaddy's managed WordPress is $10 a month.
Okay.
That's assuming you buy it by the year. And it comes with the free SSL certificate, which is good.
We'll need one of those. So, you know, I'm willing to put the bill for it to start with just to get it, get the ball rolling on it.
Great. Welcome, Mel. I see you've looks like you've made it. I was just talking about you.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thanks, Jeffrey. That really gets us going. Yes, I think WordPress is a great way to go because ideally what I want is I wanna stop.
Hey, Mel. I want to stop. doing the list of who we're trying to interview, which is a pretty good growing list and we want a membership list at some point and something like, WordPress would have the details we want there so that we can do some kind of workflow of Cause we're not juggling, you know, we've got 80
or so people that we, at least want to interview and about a dozen in the can. So. That sounds good, Jeffrey.
Thank you for that. You had volunteered before, but we never went anywhere with. Website and content.
So great.
Mel to revisit what I was. Talking about you about was. The podcast or other use of our gathered content.
So I'm just. It really seems like it's time to. Get going on that so I don't know what if you I don't know what your timing is on your various jobs or if.
Yeah, and I apologize. I've been just so overloaded. Between the 2 gigs.
I'm going on vacation next week, but I will have Saturday and Sunday next week and a little time on Monday, So.
If anybody's available. Maybe I could. Chat with you on Saturday, next Saturday and then I could start listening to what we have.
Yeah, great.
Okay.
You know what, as we kind of approach.
Memorial Day. I'm gonna say. Work with. I'm not sure the content that we have so far is all in one place, but I think it is.
But so let me double check that. And then lets you and I work together as we kind of mount the full nonprofit status, which we're talking about earlier.
We can then make the jump to a Descript account that is multi-seat I can up what we do there.
I'll pay for that until we're, you know, on our feet financially and, you know, once Nick finds us tens of thousands of dollars or however we're going to get funding.
Yeah.
But we can, I can up that so that you can, you and I can both have seats.
On the script and then we can work there because I found that even if I record something on zoom and I know you don't like the the quality there but we can bring those into Descript and we could work on them there.
Hmm.
You know, we have probably a dozen or 15 or so interviews. Done. And so I'd really like us to start releasing some of that, even if it's just teasers of.
Toddcast coming in pride or whatever or I really like your idea of slice it. The other way and do one that's just about coming out.
And or one that's just about bears or whatever and slice across. Because we have a fair amount of content now.
People who are emotional. We also we also have one which is people who cried during their interviews. Which is wonderful.
So we've got a little bit of content that I'd really like to see us.
Start releasing some stuff. So yeah, let's work over the weekend when you've got I don't wanna take up every minute of your time, but That's great.
Yeah, and then I apologize.
I overslept today. I didn't expect to actually over sleep. But I just needed to catch up.
No problem.
So. Yeah, let's do that. The other question I had was, for funding and I apologize if you have already talked about this one way we bootstrapped bears of San Francisco is that we basically all committed to donating a small amount of money every month.
For the 1st few months. Maybe we could come up with a plan like that. I know you're already putting money in, but I mean, the rest of us could develop.
Pitch into $20 a month or 25 or whatever. If we had a central place, we could like send to Venmo.
Amount to that. Something along those lines.
Well, we were one of the things we did talk about earlier was Since we don't have a when I'm gonna continue to call the position financial bear, which Mike has agreed to do it for a short period of time, up to 3 months while we look for somebody more permanent.
We're really not quite fully a nonprofit yet, so we don't really want to collect more money yet.
We have a Go Fund Me set up, but we haven't told anybody. You know, we collected $20 that way, so we know it works.
But we're not quite yet ready to. Ask for more funding. I'll ask Nick if he's any closer to finding enormous pots of money which he was looking for.
Yeah.
Or the project so that'd be great. But I wouldn't wanna commit other people to.
Any amount of money.
Yeah, all.
Or maybe since we have a Gofundme that maybe that's just a way and we can those who want to can just start donating us.
Small amount to that so that we have a little bit of a pool for things like. The P town events if we want to do anything.
I think we kind of missed the window for Pride San Francisco, but. To set up interview tables.
So Mike, should we hold off on collecting more money or are we okay with like Go Fund Me at this point?
You can collect money, you just can't tell people that it's tax deductible. There's no issue collecting money.
Okay, so we can always put that Les, what do you think? So we put the word out that we have a Gofundme and Donations are not considered.
Tax, yeah, but we're trying to get, you know, working capital going.
Yeah, I would definitely do that. I mean, I think A lot of people would not be particularly concerned and if they're small donations it's It's neither here nor there.
Okay, I'm making note of that.
For them. The other thing I wanted to mention is the. Archive committee has met once.
And it was, Nick, myself and Gary Wozn. And Gary is.
But will be helping us. With you know, starting out how to go for grants. Here in the States because of of his experience with the the leather archives and museums and you know, has some valuable insight about how a group That's kind of considered fringe.
Would be good for getting money.
Great.
Yeah.
Okay, is there anything we need to record other than, you know, the committee met and The ball is rolling.
About the archiving committee. That's it.
That's, that's it. Yeah.
You don't have your own logo. You have your own dance yet. You're on secret.
Handshake. Great.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll post it on TikTok. Yeah.
Yeah, that reminds me, I need to rejoin the leather archives. I'm museum.
Cool. Great.
Agenda. Do that. I've done some updates to the Wiki.
We might eventually want to fold the Wiki into the Jeffrey. WordPress new website.
Great, that's probably a good idea. Just keep it all.
Yep.
Yeah. Yeah, the week has been a good, like I can do that from my phone. When less of a sudden has a brainstorm about something but we could probably do the same thing with the WordPress.
So that's great. I don't wanna maintain both, but I'm happy to maintain the website once we get that.
Up and running.
Let's see, I posted speaking of that I posted some links, linked to the main page I've listed, bibliography page, we've got some stuff going.
Yeah.
Unless you mentioned your, Books. Okay, and Nick has a bit Nick has a book that's been published so he's all excited I think the launch was yesterday there in wherever he lives, foreign land, Edinburgh.
Yeah, some far away place.
Oh, whatever.
Yeah. Huh. No, he's in Brighton. Yeah, that's not the, the coast of the channel.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's the gay, it's the San Francisco of England. It doesn't look like it, but it's the like, along card.
Right, isn't that where you find Matthew Broderick? Wasn't he in Brighton Beach Memoirs or is that not Matthew Broderick?
No, that's, Long Island, I think, Brighton Beach.
Oh, okay. So that was our common committee. We have nothing from the international committee as it were.
Great. That's what I have. Anything from anybody else?
Nothing less.
Nothing I could think of.
Okay, Mike, anything from you on the financial and organizing front. Great. Clark.
No, Jeffrey, thanks for, you know, jumping into a big hole. As it were.
I'm actually looking at, look, I've been looking into it right now. I'll probably just host it.
My own site, I hosted Google Firebase. And they just gave you a big chunk of data about a server and you can put whatever you want on it so and you just pay by the usage.
This is what's nice about Google stuff. Is instead of the manage stuff, it's like, you know, $1215, maybe $20 a month.
It could be as low as, you know, a dollar or whatever. So, and I'll just put it in my plan and we'll figure out how to compensate for it.
Yes.
Great. And then we can, we want to make sure that we, eventually have a place for you know, things that members can go see.
Things of the public and go see and then things that the board can go see. So like the list of people we're trying to interview.
Yeah, that's got phone numbers that people only want to give because they know we're interviewing them, etc.
So we need to figure out all that.
Yeah.
Great. At, yeah, less.
Go, oh, yeah, one last thing and I don't need to go into it in detail, but.
Okay, so anybody does know him, I heard I and, John Hernandez, the editor at Beer World Magazine, heard from John Caldera.
And that did not go well at all. He is now 5 blocked him. John has blocked him.
He was removed from membership from BHPI and
It would be nice to, you know, it'd be nice to have his voice to the record.
But.
Don't get me started about John Caldera. Oh my god. Oh my god, we got into it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah. So anyway, we we are being
Yeah, we all said the same thing at the for. So I saw money joined. And I thought, oh, well, you know, maybe he's melted out like the rest of us have, but you know, maybe he's melted out like the rest of us have, but no, he went right back to his usual stuff.
Yeah.
So officially I'm the one that banned him and removed him. Yeah, remove the content that you put in and officially the reason it
Well, there was still a picture, Phil, that he had up there on the thing and I just deleted here a minute ago because I didn't want to see his face.
Okay, officially because again, this is an official organization. Officially, we have rules which are you know why do you want to join and and etiquette about your fellow members and he basically violated About working with fellow members of the Bear History Project International.
So we've removed him. I sent him a specific and he had he and I had been friends on Facebook.
So I sent him a note and said, I've removed him and this is why and I haven't heard back from him.
Okay.
So That was the official line of what happened. So we can't please everybody. And where, you know, a bunch of us are working really hard to make this happen and we just don't want to be derailed by, we've had a couple of people who have.
Yeah.
Just dragged it down.
Yeah, Yeah, we've all got our John Caldara story. So I actually have a little bit of good news.
So my friend, and the story. So I actually have a little bit of good news.
So my friend, andxican, my second ex, exican Alejandro who is the the.
Accountant for the Eagle in San Francisco. And he's willing to help out.
I said we're looking for somebody to be a treasure. And he said he's willing to help out.
So trustworthy, good guy. And he's in San Francisco, so that might be a help for, companies.
Okay, so.
Especially if we need 2 signatures. So I'm, I'm gonna, I'll chat with you separately.
Phil, off of this call. He's up at Alexandra Valley in wide testing, Tracy right now, but he says he's definitely interested in helping out.
And, so his name is, Alejandro Nuno and I'll get him in the, history group so he'll be trying to, see what's going on.
And he's been on and he's been, you know, he's been a, an accountant for many years.
So he's probably a good guy to have on it.
Exactly.
Okay, so. I'm happy to talk to him if you know cause then he and I would both be local to each other so would Mel.
But I mean, less is the person less is the one who is gonna name the board. So Les needs to talk to him.
And decide.
Yeah, yeah. Well, we'll get it all figured out, so. And the bitch just sent me a picture.
Okay.
I'm holding some line enjoying himself while we're in a meeting. So.
Yes.
You better ask you again tomorrow after you've sobered up. Okay.
Oh, yeah, that's a good question. That's a good point. Though he's a good guy.
He's actually, been wanted to. He's been involved with, these kind of things anyway.
He does it good for his career as well.
Yeah.
Great. Okay. And then Mel, as I do round robin, you and I are gonna work on the Descript and you and I also need to do another.
Yeah. What I what I said
Run at trying to do a recording using the script. And squad cast software. But you, you and I can work on the content that we already have too.
Yeah, what I suggest is maybe you could just email me the files as they are and I will convert them all to.
Audio and I do have an audio. I do have an audition file so I could actually start some initial.
Runs it doing some editing. Before we mastered the script because Everything I've been reading about script is it's great, but it is so different from what professional audio editors are used to.
It's very user friendly unless you're somebody that's been using. Traditional audio, audio editing.
So And I have I have a friend who
Okay.
Yeah, I'm not gonna These files are really big, so I'm not gonna I'll happy to send you links to where they are on Dropbox but I'm not going to actually send you the file because they tend to be you know, 20 meg each or a gig each or 11 gig each or something.
They're really big, so I'm not gonna send you original files.
Okay, links would be good and then I can start working on those when I get back
Okay, and then. So I'm assuming our next meetings can be back on the usual spot.
It isn't a pride month, but. I'll set the meeting for Saturday, June 8, th 10 am Pacific.
Can some people make that? Let's start with Les. Are you available then?
I am.
Yeah
Okay, I'm gonna set it for them. I know we're gonna you know, we'll have even less you will have even fewer people in June that we typically do because pride month festivities are gonna Yes, I'm teaching but not until July and August.
So I have pride months not teaching this year. So cool. Okay, anything else anybody? And you're all mostly mutated, so no, no.
Jeffrey says no. Anything else, Les? No. Great.
Nope.
Mel, nothing else.
Bill, Phil, can I check with you after the meeting for a second?
Yes, I will. And the recording and dismiss people if we're all done otherwise. Great. Thanks, folks.
Thanks.
Good to see you guys have a great weekend. Bye.
Thanks. Bye.