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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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