B!B!E! Planning Meeting 2022.10.26

Attendees

Angel, Carla, Darin, Nat

Minutes

Social media check-in

• Francisco translations has given Nat some bandwidth
• Nat made a really cool template for social media posts
• Ivonne's workshop was yesterday, Carla's is coming up.
• If workshop people want to be tagged on social media, Nat needs their @s.
• animal suggestions for next round of drawings

Things to ask presenters

• @s for social media if they want to be linked when we talk about their presentation, and how much of their name (nat is defaulting to what they have on bikebike.org)
• Nat is soliciting animal suggestions for the next round of drawings
• are they ok with being recorded

misc

• Dandy will facilitate and Valeria will be @ the "next bike bike" workshop

Tech update

• Firefox released a new update, bumbleberry can't handle browser updates, godwin fixed it, darin will try to figure out what godwin just changed.

Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2023 & bbe2023 workshop planning

• Way more time to train interpreters next year.
• 2 people interested in working on language justice
• 4 translators that actually check their emails (2 to translate, 2 to review)
• 7 people + 1 on-call person interested in being trained as interpreters or who already know how to interpret
• bike knowledge in both languages
• 3 people, preferably bilingual, for social media. Messages come in in both languages.
  • People familiar with different platforms, right now we mostly are using instagram
  • People interested in writing posts
  • People interested in creating images
  • posts and images can be done by different people
• A writer or writers. Everybody has different styles. Effective communicator.
• Person who comes to the meetings and develops institutional memory and keeps us company
• 6 zoom techs
• 1-3 people who are generally comfortable messing around with computers
  • know how a server works
  • basic coding ability
  • can troubleshoot things and get things working
  • and who are available to do that
• 1-2 people who are comfortable doing things like
  • working with a wiki
  • sending emails
  • doing basic online tasks that need to get done
• decision-maker when nobody wants to make a decision
• delegator
• miro
• organizing
• keeping track of what needs to be done when
• keeping track of timeline
• tasks into smaller ones and set dates

lessons learned

• we need to schedule more time for things, and then believe ourselves when those deadlines seem early
• things will go wrong, you have time to fix them (like with registration)
• who/what/when/where/why/how check for sending out emails. remember important details.