Okay.
Okay, so
I posted the May. Transcript, meeting transcript. Well, I'm making public a link to the meeting transcript.
All the files are up there in the folder for the main meeting. Okay, come somebody. Oh, Bill is out.
Now, it's Jeffrey. Bill can't come today, Jeffrey. Is that lunch?
Okay, priorities. Okay, so the, but I'm publicizing the Transcript version of the meeting so that's there in the meeting notes.
Next I have, The inaugural board, are you ready to announce the inaugural board?
I am, yeah. Okay, yeah, they are an alphabetical order.
Mel Baker. Phil James. Nick Mcqueen. Alekandro Nino and myself.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the little people who made this possible.
Great. Have you heard from Alejandro with a blurb of any kind?
Great.
He sent me, A brief. I think one sentence blurred. And I, I, forward that to Mike maybe.
If you didn't get it, it must have been Mike. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so I'll put it on our Wiki if you'll send that to me and then plus.
You want it for, do we want to do a press release of some kind?
Oh, yeah. Other, I was actually hoping other folks would be here because Bear World Magazine is the only place.
That I can think of to send it out to.
Yeah. Well, I put it in our meeting agenda and maybe other people will glam on and You know, it could also be a rolling thing, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Sometimes you see press releases, which are. Announced 2 weeks ago today as blah blah blah so We can always add it later if we need to.
Great.
Okay.
So I haven't heard from anybody else about where to post it, but. Good. I put in the agenda.
There are quote unquote committee spots available. I'm looking for help with the database slash website.
I have gotten started on it. We have
I said that Mel and I are
Heading up the interviewing committee, although it's really you and me Les who are doing the interviews.
Yeah.
Okay.
But I said to contact. Me and Mel for the Currently for the tech side of the squad cast and the script.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
I've said you're doing archiving. So you have a whole archiving committee.
Right, and we've met once and I reported that last meeting.
Right. And I think that also includes Clark, right? I'm not looking at the screen, but I think you'll say yes.
Oh, yes.
Now I'm looking at the screen. Yes, he says yes. Okay, great.
My second computers. Way off to the side. Okay, I was hoping for an update from Mike on nonprofit status.
He was working on something else. You know what he was working on, Les?
The something else, no, but I did give him. All of the information. For the nonprofit.
Which was all on the board names and emails. what was it? I think, oh, and my birthday and, and a couple of other things.
So. He has all the information he needs to follow up, follow through.
Okay, I think he said paperwork had to be refiled and I think he had done that so I don't know what it was that I needed to do, but.
Okay.
That's been redone. So that's good. As I, you know, I'm receiving the physical mail and as I receive it, I'm now putting images of them in the.
In a folder on Dropbox. And.
Okay.
Then Mike can kind of have a look at it and really soon Alejandro can have a look at what's coming in and anybody.
So that's in a folder there. I really should put together a little like board introduction of here's where this is.
Here's where that is. Because I'm like that. So I'll think about that.
Okay.
Oh, Nick had an update on what I call both international committee and. Fundraising so He posted a, comment.
We, let one deadline go, it was too soon. And he's going for the Lever Home Research Fellowship.
Okay.
Which open up applications this month. So. He's working on that. You probably know that already.
And he talked about. Small group from Bear History Project and Gary for a leather museum.
Yeah.
Yeah. You're from the Museum, Clark and Les about developing funding bid for Les Archives.
Okay, cool. Logistically, I just wanna mention. I'm thinking about maybe I'll go to international Mr. Leather in May next year.
I don't know if others are thinking of it, but we might want to think about remember Gary from the Leather Archives Museum said we should think about a launch of The bear history, Patrick International Archives are now from here going forward are now housed at the leather archives and museum.
Yeah.
So maybe we want to think about that over. I'm our weekend.
Yeah. Good. Yeah. So that's IML.
So that would be. We can kill.
25.
Yes.
Okay.
Treasure. Oh, so we found a treasure which is Alejandro. Oh, and then I just recorded what it was that.
Andy mentioned as potential. Software to manage our finances, which is an app called give butter.
Dot com. So that's what he mentioned a couple of meetings ago of. Several nonprofits use that.
And.
That's, that's 1 way of organizing our nonprofit. Finances. Okay, I'm gonna share my screen and just Let's see, is this magically possible?
Yes, we share my screen. Okay. So.
I just want to, oh, so if you, oh, I want to start it there. History.
Dot org. If you go to bear history.org now. Oops, still don't want to do that.
There's a.
Well, there was a coming soon page. I think it depends on how you get there, but there's now the beginnings of a website here.
Oh yes, yeah.
You guys can see the screen. Okay. So,
Jeffrey Glover put this together with the beginnings of he took stuff from our Wiki, which is what are we trying to do?
The Bear Pride flag, our logo. Blah, blah, blah.
His, mug. And then. I, he had petted like a placeholder.
Okay.
So I added this as a statement from Les. He's, he has some placeholders for.
You know, book an interview. I'm not sure what we will do. I have hooked up an interview release.
Now what I also did was I'm creating a page. I mentioned this in our. Magical place.
If I can find it. I started a links page.
And that's where
Okay, I'm not gonna able to find it now because I'm Trying, but I've started a links page and there I'm putting It'll be as I mentioned in the, chat room, it'll be a 1 pager that we can just, we can point people to bear history.
Dot org slash links. And that'll be a 1 pager which is here's the URL for booking an interview.
Here's the URL for signing the waiver. Here's the URL for
Where the wiki is. Here's a, you know, people will be, they'll only get it if they're on the web page.
So we don't need to link the web page. But it will be the written out URL of where to go and it'll have QR codes for each of those things.
So. Last we can then print out that one page and you can have that at events and people can point their smartphone.
Okay.
At the QR codes and easily get to those places that way. So. I think that's better than a flyer.
So.
Well, I'm not gonna have a printer, so I'm not, it's gonna come up on the screen.
It'll be on, yeah, it'll be on the screen, but we can also, you know, we can get you a page.
Okay, yeah.
I'm trying to do it in the next, you know, couple days. And then, you know, it'll be available then all we need to do somebody can print it and then you know, if you're at a hotel or, you know, if you're in P town.
There will be places to print something just so and of course we want a couple backups blah blah blah.
So I'm still finding my way around. WordPress. I've used it before, but
A couple people have some suggestions of Oh, there's tons of places to manage. Membership, etc.
I think What somebody brought up is. You know, membership means logged in, which I kind of like and then.
You know, we have people who can't figure out how to. Answer the 2 questions for membership now.
So I'm not sure. Logins and passwords is, I mean, I guess if, if we get a turnkey system and just plug it into our website.
Yeah, that'd be good, but I'm just scratching my head of is that really the way we wanna go, but.
I kind of want an area that only members can get to. And then I want kind of an area.
We're only the board or interview people can get to. Like I really want this list of 80 people that we want to interview which has names and some reason why we went through them and phone numbers and email I don't want that available even to all the members.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I want it. Behind some kind of wall or 2. Does that work for you, Les?
Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely.
Okay, so I'm gonna continue to investigate that. Okay, so Les, anything else from you this month?
No. Yeah, the only thing I had been wondering about was the the QR code because I think I will be in P town.
The next month were scheduled to meet.
No.
Okay, and I'm just pulling up my calendar so 6th of July, so. The second Saturday in.
July is the 13.th
Yeah.
So will you be there then?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it starts on the 11th and I'll be leaving Syracuse.
On the 8th of the 9.th
Okay, do you think Are you okay with us planning a meeting on that Saturday at this time? 10 a.
Sure. Yeah.
M. Pacific time. Okay.
Okay, I'm gonna put an action item for myself of get the QR codes finished We again, we have Jeffrey to thank cause cause I was, you know, buying a service and then it expires and he's like, no, just use your phone.
No. Okay.
Oh, okay. So I did create a couple, but now I have to link them to I got one on that page, but now I can't show you where it is because.
I'm an idiot, but I'll keep trying. Okay, anything else Les?
No.
Good luck.
Okay, let me see if anybody else has chimed in. No one else has chimed in.
Yeah, and Clark, anything from you?
Yeah, I wanted to talk with Mel actually today about podcast related stuff because I think it'd be cool to have like a social media account designated to that.
Where we post like interview clips and updates and things like that and kind of keep people because I think that might be a good way to recruit people for the podcast as well but that's something that we can address at a later meeting.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, you should. I'm gonna give you Mell's address. I actually don't have Mouse address, but.
You should go to Mel's house and tell him to get going on. He's our lead on.
The interview side. He's a journalist and So he and I are supposed to practice. So.
Yep.
We have access to the software. Squadcast and Descript, which I think we're still gonna use we're certainly paying for it and it'll do better, it'll do better than zoom, which we're using now.
Zoom is okay. We've got you know probably 15 Interviews done less, is that right?
Right, yeah.
15 or so? You know, we got a good transcript, we've got a good video, we've got audio, but we'd really like to do the, squad cast and the script route, but We've had a couple attempts at using it and Mel and I are supposed to organize another attempt at it.
So I will get back to him. On that. Yeah, we have an Instagram account which we almost don't use at all.
Yeah.
Yeah. I think podcast we should. I don't know if we, I guess they don't really need to, we need a place to hold the files, but then.
We're going to broadcast them to all the places that podcasts live, right? We're going to tell people.
Go to Let's see, somebody is typing in the. Chat. But they stopped. I think it was Jeffrey.
There was a little bubble, but it's now going, okay. Yes, I think that's good idea, Clark.
And. I'll put your your name down next to Let's make this happen. So.
Okay, and I'd be willing to like work on helping you all manage that in some way. I just like we need content 1st and once we have content I think it's going to be easier to like put that out there.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah. Again, less of Mel has. Some ideas like, well, once we get a dozen or so.
Then we could have themes which is you know, coming out story definition of bears, we can kind of slice it the other way, which is let's have 8 people talking about what they think bears are and that would kind of be an interesting mosaic.
And then let's have, yeah, we can always do. Here's John Smith talking about everything that he knows, but we can also do it the other way, which is A bunch of people talking about.
You know, their definition.
Yeah.
Oh, let's see who it is. Oh, maybe it's
Oh, that might have been I've got a tiny little. Somebody was typing. I think the picture looks like I have a tiny thumbnail of Alejandro and I think he was typing in the
No.
Yes, he's typing in the chat room. But he keeps stopping. So. He might not have been able to find the meeting.
He's still typing.
Okay. Cool. Clark, anything else from you?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, bless anything from you
No.
Okay, so I'm gonna set the next meeting for Saturday, July, 11.th Wait, did I say?
Yeah.
Saturday, July 13.th P town is 11th to what was it?
20 second.
Okay. I'll set the next meeting for July 13th at 10 am specific time. Oh, here's Alejandro.
I thought it was the 15th on Saturday next Saturday, 15th works for me. Okay, yeah.
Okay, sorry, Tennessee. Okay. So 7 1324 will be the.
See, I think we talked about.
Moving it to next week, but my notes don't say that
And you couldn't do it next week, so. Less so that's fine. Okay Alright.
Right. Wasn't it last month that we did it a week later?
Yeah, that might be why he thought. It was a different day, but.
Okay. Alright, and then you're gonna get me his.
To Philly.
Action item. Alejandro. Blurb. I'm going to call it.
Alright.
Okay, cool. Okay. Thanks, folks. I'm going to go to the airport.
Flying to Elbe QQ and then driving to Santa Fe and buying a house. Or looking at houses.
Awesome. Oh, okay.
Very cool. Okay.
So we will see. Okay. Okay, Les, we'll talk before you need to go to P town and We'll get you some artifacts there.
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