2021-04 CTA Board Meeting Minutes
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- **Date:** 2021-04-01
- **Agenda**
1. Welcome New Board Members
2. Reports
1. [Executive Director reports](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
2. [Treasurer reports](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
3. Existing business
1. Election results
1. New board members
- Elias: long-time FB member, runs AI Theology blog
- "How do you get a network to start a movement"
- Mark seconds a new focus on marketing, suggests Memes
- Martha: Lawyer, grew up Catholic, husband introduced her to transhumanism. Aims to spread the message to new audiences
- Global reach of the CTA
- how to increase membership
- partnerships
- Jonathan: re-elected, oldest member since Neal. Focused on the interesction btwn Christianity and Futurism
- Creating a wiki to structure CTA knowledge.
- Approachable content and communication
2. Updating Affirmation
3. Updating Bylaws with Affirmation language
2. Presentation schedule
1. Monthly Presentations
1. Mark Russell
2. Christopher Benek
3. Neal?
4. Lorenzo, Micah & Jason Bursack?
2. Clubhouse
3. April 8, Joshua K Smith, Robotic Persons
3. CTA content-production
1. Overseeing CTA Conference Videos
- volunteers came forward to edit the videos
- needs a PM
2. Wiki
1. [List of proposed wiki articles](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ywcS_PMz2BVbvYdMso6uJl6wyCVf-CXS-dtclmXLHV8/edit?usp=sharing)
2. [wiki.christiantranshumanism.org](https://cta-wiki.netlify.app)
3. [wiki @ Roam](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/christiantranshumanism)
6. Migrating to version-controlled organization
7. New business
1. Micah frames the CTA as the bottleneck of a lot of content
- 6-10 members for the monthly talks
- 31 voting members
- **Participants:**
- Micah Redding (Executive Director)
- Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (Secretary)
- Emily Hogan Redding (Treasurer)
- Martha Barcarum
- Jonathan Gunnell
- Elias Kruger
- Neal Locke
- Mark Russell
- **Reference:**
1. [Previous minutes](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7GmjSbYZdUdZHlmYzZkS0VYOUE)
2. [Email discussions](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/board-of-the-cta)
3. [Executive Director reports](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
4. [Treasurer reports](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
5. [CTA Events Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=YWRtaW5AY2hyaXN0aWFudHJhbnNodW1hbmlzbS5vcmc)
6. [Google Hangouts](https://meet.google.com/vbv-ztvv-icw)
7. [Zoom Meeting (current)](https://zoom.us/j/96867266649?pwd=bU5ma2VUeURzUDlac0JHRk42NDdxZz09)

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