Monthly Meeting - 2011-12-13

Public meeting minutes for December 13th, 2011 at 6:30PM to 8:30PM
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Free Geek Vancouver: 1820 Pandora St. back door

Introductions

Attendance

Name, Name, Name

Explanation of roles

Facilitator: Name

Scribe: Name

Consensus briefing

Consensus briefer: Name

Reports

Finance

Grants

• Vancity grants are opening in January.

Operations

Warehouse

• Total incoming for November (not full list of gizmos):

Crt 100 Lcd 311 Laptop 204 Printer 194 System 657 All Gizmos 2698

Volunteers

• Number of volunteer contacts created in 2011

                               1113

New Volunteers who put in time:

count |   hours    |     average      |  max   |      stddev
 581 | 13154.5528 | 22.6412268502582 | 525.12 | 44.3600748090485

New Volunteers who completed 24 hours:

count |   hours   |     average      |  max   |     stddev
 151 | 9119.7128 | 60.3954490066225 | 525.12 | 74.470585405174

Returning volunteers who put in time:

count |  hours   |     average      |  max   |      stddev
 300 | 8957.755 | 29.8591833333333 | 802.25 | 74.2724520770758

Returning volunteers who put in at least 24 hours:

count |  hours  |     average      |  max   |     stddev
  77 | 7257.44 | 94.2524675324675 | 802.25 | 126.24654222629

Overall stats for volunteers (new and returning):

count |   hours    |     average      |  max   |      stddev
 881 | 22112.3078 | 25.0991007945516 | 802.25 | 56.4181182838587

Note the variation in months, January to February and July to August in particular so I suspect hours aren't always correctly entered by the time they were performed...

      month        |    sum
2011-01-01 00:00:00 |    122.19
2011-02-01 00:00:00 |  3074.985
2011-03-01 00:00:00 |   2376.65
2011-04-01 00:00:00 | 1776.3328
2011-05-01 00:00:00 |   1456.62
2011-06-01 00:00:00 |   1893.11
2011-07-01 00:00:00 |     789.8
2011-08-01 00:00:00 |   3947.83
2011-09-01 00:00:00 |   2001.45
2011-10-01 00:00:00 |    1957.7
2011-11-01 00:00:00 |   1986.96
2011-12-01 00:00:00 |   1154.15

Volunteers by time put in for 2011: 0-6 hours | 312 6-12 hours | 159 12-18 hours | 94 18-24 hours | 88

0-24 hours | 653 24-48 hours | 136 48-72 hours | 40 72-96 hours | 16 96-120 hours | 6 >120 hours | 30

0-120 hours | 851 120-240 hours | 22 240-360 hours | 2 360-480 hours | 2 480-600 hours | 2 >600 hours | 2

Outgoing

Store

Retail $11770 ($1205(11%) over target/budget)

Wholesale

$2000 ($700 under target/budget).

HW Grants

• We are currently getting back to every applicant within a week and hardware grants are ready to pickup usually the same day. We have completed 64 hardware grants this year.

Communications

Education

• Open Classroom Project has now had five fully booked classes teaching intro to computers through intro to the Linux shell. We are planning on putting on the full curriculum in its entirety for next year and have begun booking those sessions. A huge thank you to everyone who has been coming in to help facilitate and teach these classes. It is an important part of our mandate which we are fulfilling.

Events / Media

• Jordan Eunson had a brilliant article published in the Georgia Straight this month which promotes people taking their old computer equipment to places like Free Geek after Xmas. [1]

Intergalactic

• Jessica just came back from Free Geek Portland, the mothership. They have had very high turn over in the last year, some of the staff have become unionized and there has been much change going on for them. She spoke in detail with Richard, the man behind the curtain which focused on their HR issues.

Old business

Name of agenda item

Short description of proposal and/or...

http://example.com/link_to_proposal_in_mailing_list_archive or Name of proposal page in wiki

Mailing list concerns and relevant discussion:

http://example.com/link_to_concern_in_mailing_list_archive or Link to discussion on the wiki

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

Name of agenda item

Short description of proposal and/or...

http://example.com/link_to_proposal_in_mailing_list_archive or Name of proposal page in wiki

Mailing list concerns and relevant discussion:

http://example.com/link_to_concern_in_mailing_list_archive or Link to discussion on the wiki

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

New business

Wage raise proposal

An 8% increase in wages for staff starting January 1, 2012. The increased revenue to cover the wage increase is a medium risk. This raise does not preclude future bonuses or raises.

Mailing list concerns and relevant discussion:

• within budget, see budget proposal
• an 8% increase would require $9,568 of increased revenue to maintain our revenue. This is a medium risk.
• work continues on compensation by the raise committee

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

2012 budget proposal

http://wiki.freegeekvancouver.org/w/images/6/6a/FGV-budget-2012.pdf

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

designation of responsibilities

I feel that Freegeek could benefit from a better organizational structure for its volunteers. I would like to propose that volunteering be divided into six sectors and that a core volunteer be designated as the person responsible each of the sectors in question. Ideally, the volunteer charged with responsibility for a given sector would wear a name tag identifying her or his sector. For example, since Rod is the defacto supervisor of the dismantle bench, he would wear a tag saying "dismantle bench". Other sectors which currently have defacto supervisors are: "laptops", (Mike F.) and "database" (Joan W.). As volunteers become available, I would also propose a transferable tag for the areas of "desktop build", "store" and "testing". When no core volunteer is available the responsibility in question would devolve to a staff member.

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

Name of agenda item

Short description of proposal and/or...

http://example.com/link_to_proposal_in_mailing_list_archive or Name of proposal page in wiki

Mailing list concerns and relevant discussion:

http://example.com/link_to_concern_in_mailing_list_archive or Link to discussion on the wiki

Discussion

• Meeting discussion
  • Related detail

CONSENSUS

What did we decide?

Commits

1. Who and what
   1. What else
2. Who and what

Next meeting

When: Tuesday, February 9th, 2061 at 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Where: Free Geek Vancouver, 1820 Pandora St., back door

Roles

Facilitator: Name

Scribe: Name