2025-04-25: Board Meeting Minutes: Workshop recap, financial update, next steps
- Board members present (3/3):
- CJ Trowbridge
- Joe Whisher
- Julia Heim
- Also Present
- Cyberpony Express Workshop Recap
- Discussed how they went;
- Hardware Strategy
- Ongoing project was allocated $500 budget by the board for development of experimental nodes including rich services like
- IIAB
- BBS
- MUDs
- Local LLMs
- etc
- New Partnerships
- Amateur Radio Clubs → Repeater sites
- Opsec
- Best practices for security
- Understanding limitations of encryption
- Discussed future plans
- Ownership, Organization, and Governance Workshops
- Land Trust Workshops
- Cyberpony Express Disatches/Podcast
- First four workshops are now live on YouTube;
- Discuss new website
- Anyone can submit a change for any page.
- Planning to move all the other partner websites over to this model so anyone can edit any of those websites
- Anyone in “the org” which we haven’t really defined yet can approve these updates.
- Financial Report
- Approximate balance of accounts, including pending transactions and estimates of pending fees.
- General Unrestricted Funds
- Balance is $759.52
- Most of the donations to this account have come from people choosing to optionally donate while subscribing to the HDI substack. Thank you!
- Cyberpony Express Funds
- Received $10,721 in donations so far.
- $6,656 in new donations since last meeting.
- Fiscal sponsorship will take 7%.
- Interchange is around 3%.
- Gross is around $9,648.90.
- Most of this is not yet realized because of how long GoFundMe takes to disburse the money.
- Allocations so far;
- $307 for ten nodes to give away to people who came to the first Cyberpony Express workshop.
- $189.64 for T-Decks for Joe and Julia to work on understanding and explaining the system.
- $500 for cyberpony express hardware development
- $1948.43 for a large batch of nodes to give away to whoever wants to host one, prioritizing intentional communities, community gardens, etc.
- Net is about $7,203.83
- Minus allocations is about $6,703.83.
- Land Acquisition Funds
- Received $1,897 in donations so far.
- $25 in new donations since last meeting.
- (We haven’t been pushing this at all since then.)
- Fiscal sponsorship will take 7%.
- Interchange is around 3%.
- Balance is about $1707.30
- Board Votes
- Board voted to allow CJ/Multiverse to allocate the remaining radios we have purchased to the people who have applied to recieve one.
- Board voted to buy a T-Deck for Tree so that Tree and Julia can demonstrate them to intentional communities as they travel and produce their own Cyberpony Express content.
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