Present: Luther Tychonievich — Chair; Roger Moffat — Secretary, Treasurer & Membership Coordinator; Richard Smith — Technical Coordinator & Vice-Chair; and Seth Taplin — Technical Co-coordinator.
Absent: Joel Cannon — Industry Relations Coordinator, David Mann — Director at Large
- Minutes of the previous meetings: The minutes of the 22 January 2020 Board Meeting have not been drafted. They will be ready for the next meeting.
- Finances:
- Status of IRS filing = pending
- Status of Annual Report with Arizona Corporation Commission (AZCC) – Approved on 2/14/2020
- PDF summary of 2019 Finances = pending
- PayPal Balance at 5 March 2020 = $242.63
- Bank of America Balance at 5 March 2020 = $143.60
- Annual Report: has been drafted is ready for review before sending
- Technical Work:
- Basic Concepts – first pass done, final split in progress
- Data models split vocabulary – some progress
- Family History Metadata Working Group (fhmwg.org) — Joel + Luther on team
- Industry Outreach: RootsTech events
- GEDCOM meeting (invitation only, Luther invited)
- FamilySearch is reinvesting in GEDCOM
- Starting with listening sessions, then hoping to move into technical work
- Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG) meeting:
- Starting with recommendations on how to use existing embedded metadata tags in family history contexts
- Plan for 2020:
- Write annual report for members — Done
- File with IRS (pending) and AZCC (Approved on 2/14/2020).
- Consider moving the registered address and agent somewhere cheaper than Caritas
- Hold elections (half of board, we pick which half this year)
- Complete and release full ELF; depending on schedule and feedback, potentially vote on it as membership
- Get Basic Concepts integrated into GEDCOM X.
- Resume work on CEV
- Grow membership, targeting 50 members and 10% non-English-speaking
Date of next meeting: 15 April 2020 at 2100UTC