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# 2023-02 CTA Board Meeting Minutes

- **Date:** 2022-02-02
- **Participants:**
    - Micah Redding (Executive Director)
    - Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (Secretary)
    - Lincoln Cannon
    - Omar Reyes
    - Caleb Strom
    - Mark Russell
- **Absent:**
    - Emily Hogan Redding (Treasurer)
    - Jonathan Gunnell
    - Elias Kruger
    - Martha Barcarum
    - Mackenzie Fisher
- **Agenda**
    1. Reports
        1. [Executive Director reports]
            1. [normal reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
            2. [specific](https://hackmd.io/@christian-transhumanism/rJvO2Jc3i)
        3. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
    2. Existing Business
        - CTA Course (Jonathan & Micah)
            - 39 people participated + more asked to come
            - lots of interest in keeping the conversation going 
            - "Space exploration > space colonization" was one of the pieces of feedback 
            - Should we re-center "super-abundance" as a concept? 
                - related to uplifting the poor
                - Caleb clarifies that we shouldn't get confused with Prosperity Gospel
                - Secular transhumanists anticipate an era of tech-enabled abudance 
            - Lorenzo asks how the CTA team can make it easier for Micah and Jonathan to work on this kind of initiative
                - how to reach out to more people with this content? 
            - Caleb talks about distinguishing ourselves from De-growthers
                - Ex. Revive&Restore(https://reviverestore.org) is about using biotech to revitalize 
        - [ ] CTA Website
            - Refining Missions
            - Refining Press page
        - [ ] CTA & EACH? (Lorenzo)
            - Monthly call?
            - Simulation presentation?
        - [ ] CTA Course?
        - Caleb working on a Christian Transhumanist Confession
            - https://www.notion.so/Curriculum-Contents-01b0ce3c8a064fdfa912959a379650eb
        - [ ] CTA Conference?
        - [ ] CTA Tiktok? (Mark) 
            - Ideas for DALLE-2 generation
            - Martha offers 'cool' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRRGsNyp7gU&feature=youtu.be
        - [ ] Martha ask if we are registered here: https://causes.benevity.org/
4. New business?
    - Lorenzo would like to invite Thomas Kelly, the founder of Kidney Donations (https://eachdiscussion.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/donating-a-kidney/)
        - The idea is to broadcast his message so that more people can exposed to this opportunity 
        - Lorenzo asks Lincoln if MTA memebers would be interested 
            - Lincoln suggests stronger partnerships are possible
                - Carl + Micah meet monthly 
                - Lincoln picks up the responsibility to faciliate this kind of partnership 
                    - There are other religious transhumanist orgs we can also partner with 
    - in March, there are Board Elections
        - Micah, Lorenzo, and Omar are up for re-election
        - Micah questions whether board elections should be as public facing as they've been in the past, like Biologos 
        - The board's focus shouldn't be on the political negotiations for re-election but rather on generative acts such as buildings projects 
- **References:** 
    1. [Board Dashboard](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board/blob/main/board.md) 
    2. Records & [Board Minutes](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board)
        1. [Minutes in Github](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board)
        2. [Minutes in Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7GmjSbYZdUdZHlmYzZkS0VYOUE)
        3. [Email discussions](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/board-of-the-cta)
    3. [Bylaws](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/bylaws)
    4. Reports
        1. [Executive Director reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
        2. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
    5. Communication & Events
        1. [CTA Events Calendar](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/calendar)
        2. [Google Hangouts](https://meet.google.com/vbv-ztvv-icw) (defunct)
        3. [Zoom Meeting (current)](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/zoom)
    6. Wiki & Content
        1. View: [wiki.christiantranshumanism.org](https://wiki.christiantranshumanism.org)
        2. Edit: [wiki @ Roam](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/christiantranshumanism)





