OSI-US Board Meeting

July 16, 2009

Attending: Lisa, Gabriel, Peggy, Gabriel, Doug

Check-in

Business 1. Selection of Officers

• Lisa - President
• Christine – Vice
• Peggy – Treasurer – wants someone else to take it on for the next year. Gabriel may consider it for next year. Peggy and
• Gabriel - Secretary – will send the monthly reminder. Notes taking in meetings will continue on a rotating basis
• Doug continues as a member of the board
• Peggy will follow-up with Ed, Karen, Phelim, Tree

2. WOSonOS? 2009 - How Much to Send to Access Queen, Funding, OSI focus

• $6916.62 available in the OSI-US account
• Past practices – we have supported air fair
• This year we will give money directly to the Access Queen
  • Revenue – historically we have three streams – product sales, events and donations
    • Product sales
    • 2006 & 2007 – about 50%
    • 2008 it was 21%
• 85-90% of our money is spent in contributions and grants
• 10% - product overhead, the web, event overhead
• Gabriel suggests a way to look at this
  • 85% has traditionally been used for grants and contributions, which is the money that could be held for new directions stuff - $4,400
  • Bucket - $1500
  • Expenses - $1000
• What if we weren’t a grant-making organization?
  • Invest in research
    • Christine - proof of concept – easy to use TWC, for example because there is already research
    • Peggy - As our resident PhD? in the making, Gabriel may help us design the research (he is creating an action research template for TWC. This template could be Open Sourced.
    • Place for gathering the data could take place through Michael P’s Open Space World
    • Doug’s view is that we ought to get Open Space out there and if someone wants to do the research, we might give some support. Research is not a primary interest for him
    • Peggy – intrigued by idea of allocating some of our resources to support research.
  • Doug – I’m in support of us holding the space for Open Space
    • Peggy – in the early days, we were a place of support and mutual connection, doing research, mentoring through our connections
    • Training in outlying area – sending someone would cost $2500 (great deal, way in advance) or more. If we set aside $4000 for that, we could do $1000 for Access Queen and set aside some funds for the Open Space Corporate DVD and the Open Space Website

Decisions

• Postponing other financial decisions
• Will want to support Michael & Access Queen
• $1000 to Michael immediately in thanks for the work he’s already done
• next call do something similar with Access Queen
• hold off on other choices until after the f2f

It would be a wonderful thing to have that mythical f2f time to do strategy/restructure work.

• 2-3 full days of work with travel days on either side
• Transportation is the biggie, lodging can be worked out easily, food, working space that is useful and productive
• Do you need financial support for lodging, air fare (FF miles)
• OSI-US may subsidize some expenses

Action Commitments

• Christine will do a meeting wizard on the dates, proposing Seattle for the meeting
• Gabriel to send meeting announcements
  • Next meeting shifted to Wed, Aug 19 to accommodate schedules
  • Future meetings back to the third Thurs.
  • Call in number 218-339-4300 - 934546

Checkout:

• Time to get real
• Enjoy your summer
• Time to get real because the times call for that

BIN for 8/19/09

1. Office of Public Engagement (Christine)
2. PRODUCTS
   1. Rethinking our Product Strategy (Gabriel, Christine)
   2. OSI World website(Christine)
   3. Open Space DVD for the Corporate World(Tree)
3. TRAINING
   1. OSI-OZ Training Model (Christine)
   2. Sending Trainers to Underserved Areas (Lisa, Karen, Doug)