Present: Luther Tychonievich — Chair; Roger Moffat — Secretary, Treasurer & Membership Coordinator; and Richard Smith — Technical Coordinator & Vice-Chair; and Seth Taplin — Technical Co-coordinator.
Absent: Joel Cannon — Industry Relations Coordinator; David Mann — Director at Large; Seth Taplin — Technical Co-coordinator.
- Minutes of the previous meetings: The minutes of the 22 January 2020 and 5 March 2020 Board Meetings have been drafted. Reviewed and approved by the Board for publication.
- Finances:
- Status of IRS filing = pending
- PDF summary of 2019 Finances = pending
- PayPal Balance at 15 April 2020 = $242.63
- Bank of America Balance at 15 April 2020 = $128.60
- Annual Report: has been approved by the Board and will be sent to Members by eMail and published on the website.
- Technical Work:
- Updates on data models split vocabulary — review draft ready
- Industry Outreach:
- FHMWG Report Family History Metadata Working Group (fhmwg.org) — Joel + Luther on team, Luther on board, Luther standards coordinator
- Luther is also working with a group from FamilySearch on an update to the GEDCOM standard
- 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 at least 10% non-English speaking
Date of next meeting: 27 May 2020 2100UTC 5PM EDT