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# 2023-10 CTA Board Meeting Minutes

- **Date:** 2023-10-05
- **Participants:**
    - Micah Redding (Executive Director)
    - Lincoln Cannon
    - Jonathan Gunnell
    - Mark Russell
    - Caleb Strom
- **Absent:**
- **Agenda**
    1. Reports
        1. [Executive Director reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
        2. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
        3. Organization report
    2. New business?
        - Dublin Longevity Declaration
            - https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/
        - Current Board Membership
            - Emily Redding (0) (Treasurer)
            - Omar Reyes (3)
            - Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (3) (Secretary)
            - Micah Redding (3) (CEO)
            - Martha Bucaram (1)
            - Elias Kruger (1)
            - Jonathan Gunnell (1)
            - Mark Russell (1)
            - Lincoln Cannon (2)
            - Caleb Strom (2)
            - MacKenzie Fisher (2)
        - CTA Retreat
            - Dates
                1. Oct 27-29 *preferred :)  
                2. Oct 20 -22 
                3. Nov 3-5
            - Cost
                - $3000 lodging
                - $1000 food
    4. Existing Business
        - Last month
            - Micah talks about his experience running a science and faith class at his church
                - it's been successfull enough that his church wants to scale up the effort
                - It's helpful to talk about the history of (Francis Bacon & Royal Society) and current developments of science (how do we )
                - It works when it's framed in terms of worship, as opposed aggrandizing ourselves 
                - Omar shares about how evangelicals react with diffidence of transhumanist concepts outside of their comfort zones
                - Elias focuses on things that evoke "awe"
                - Lincoln worries about the risks of compatilism 
                    - We are not just about human progress but about human transformation
        - Community
            - FB Moderation (Jonathan)
            - No updates on this
        - Public Sessions
            - Lorenzo brings up how the board can figure out how to do at least a monthly podcast where we interview people
            - Elias points us to how we need to moderate Zoom with doing a broadcast session
            - Jonathan reccomends crowdsourcing questions beforehand
            - Micah reccomends prompting guests to use headsets to improve audio quality 
        - CTA-MTA
            - joint conference?
        - Content
            - Confession (Caleb)
            - Course (Jonathan)
            - Advocacy
                - specific topics?

- **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)





