B!B!E! Meeting Minutes 2022.05.11

Attendees

• Leo (Pedal Autónomo)
• Cass (they/them) (Pedal Autónomo)
• Carla
• Angel (she/her)
• Darin (he/him)
• Natalia / Nat

Language & Language Justice

• Engaging Spanish speaking communities is a priority this year!
• This meeting was in English, probably mostly to accomodate Darin & Angel

B!B!CDMX

• We need to make another attempt to contact Mujerx al Pedal in CDMX - Darin will do this
• Nat heard a rumor that it might be in October, not sure where. She will ask around and see if anyone knows more.

Online Resources related to Bike!Bike! & Bike collectives

• Bike Collectives ThinkTank email list
• Bike Collectives wiki
• bikebike.org

Outreach Strategy ideas

• Post videos from last year on social media, thinktank, etc. with quotes/excerpts/summaries and a ¨let´s do it again!" message
• thinktank email list is the primary way to reach organizations in US and Canada
• consider including all kinds of bike community groups, not just shops and formal organizations
• we need to focus on outreach to latin american and other spanish-speaking groups this year

Documents & Info to share with other coordinators

• contact info for volunteers (including mailing list info)
• link to volunteer roles page
• link to timeline draft (anyone can edit!)
• list of things we did wrong last year & things to improve in the future
• survey responses from last year
• access to relevant accounts and logins, and the list of who has access to what

(things that don´t have links will be shared by email for privacy reasons)

Role updates

• Nat & Leo are doing coordination
• Carla is available to assist with coordination and other tasks as needed
• Darin and Angel are available to support, provide access to resources, share institutional memory, etc.

Misc

• There is an Instagram account from Tijuana (https://www.instagram.com/bikebikeorg/) that we should try to get access to. Nat will ask around in TJ.
• We can set aside some time to update wiki entries on Latin American organizations together
• The wiki needs Spanish-language user verification questions (it no longer requires that an administrator approve new accounts)

Next Meeting

• same time next week (8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific on Wednesday)
• share with ThinkTank and others who might be interested in getting involved
• start making decisions!