# 2023-02 CTA Executive Director Report In the month of January, Jonathan and I led a four-week, four-session, beta-test of the "Transform Course", an introduction to the theology, epistemology, and technology of Christian Transhumanism. ### Transform Course * 39 participants (across 4 sessions) * heard from a number of people who were interested, but couldn’t make it, wanted recordings, etc * participants interested in continuing discussions * refined talking points * [Missions](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/mission/) * [CTA Communications Styleguide](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/christiantranshumanism/page/E8IIyXDcd) * Super-Abundance as a focus? * identified strategically problematic areas of discussion ### Mission Statements * [Updates to Mission Statements](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/mission/) ### Website * **Website down** * The members area of our website went down when Heroku deleted our database in December, with no recourse. * We were on a paid plan, but the attached database was counted as a separate case. * Someone else describes this experience here: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34598563 * This accelerated our ongoing move in the direction of low-code infrastructure. * We decided on this direction for purposes of improving resilience and maintainability, and eliminating knowledge silos. * **Website updated** * In the last month, I streamlined our website, and implemented the new system for membership management. * Current infrastructure * Heroku has been turned off * Github (currently free) * Netlify (currently free, may later be $19/month) * Redirects (can be implemented in other domain tools) * Eleventy.js build process (can be done locally) * Feed aggregation (can be done locally) * Mailchimp (currently free) * Stripe (percentage) * The current state of things is provisional, and open to ongoing improvement. * Areas of activity: * Joining * Paying members * Free members * RSS feeds * Profiles?