Joe to show Amaya how to update the SEE
calendar so we can meeting info

Amaya will contact Gure and Jean to see if
one of them might be interested in teaching in the future.

Reserved Ballard NW Senior Center, April 16
10am-8pm

$750($300 refundable)

Location includes tables, chairs, full
commercial kitchen, cookware, dishes, serving utensils, cutlery.

Need to bring decorations, tablecloths,
napkins, extra forks, spoons, knives.

Ok to extend reservation to 9 or 10pm

Volunteers for set-up/clean-up crew

Meal pricing – wider gap between members/non
members

Menu – ML to get menu from Conchita

Banquet permit to serve wine and beer

Sound system for dance?

10-11 am setup

11 doors open

11-12 mus registration

12 mus starts – $30 per team

12-4 mus

4 elections

5 Dinner

6:30 Dance

8:00 Cleanup

9:00 out

Prizes for raffle

Pricing

$20 members

$30 non-members

$40 member family

$60 non-member family

Kids 12/under free

Advertize in newsletter, website and Joe to
send email prior

Options
for hosting a web site:

• Run a blog at WordPress.com - this is a free
  service that runs the same software I use for all of my projects. Your
  address would be businessname.wordpress.com, or you can pay $12 a
  year to use a custom domain such as businessname.com (not including the
  cost of registering the domain name).
• Create a Facebook Page – this is perhaps the easiest way to
  connect with a large group of potential visitors. On the other hand, it could
  be difficult to keep up with Facebook’s frequent changes to its terms of
  service and privacy settings, and also monitoring comments posted on your
  page. More information is available at http://www.facebook.com/pages/learn.php.
• Host your own site through a commercial web host – this is what
  I currently do. Most hosts start at $5 – $10 a month. This would require
  fairly technical knowledge about building and maintaining a web site.
  I’ve used www.asmallorange.com and www.dreamhost.com and I would
  recommend either of them.

Options
for email:

• Use free web-based services such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo.
  This is an easy solution but the downside is that you would lose the custom
  domain (i.e. you would be name@gmail.com instead of name@yourdomain.com). Using Gmail for
  Business (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/gmail.html), you can set up an
  account in the format name@yourdomain.com, but at a cost of $50
  per year.
• You can set up a business email account that provides email
  services without also paying for the web hosting. Register.com has a service
  starting at $2.92 a month: http://www.register.com/product/businessemailsolutions.rcmx

Maintaining
a domain name

We will need to transfer your domain name to your credit card so that you can
handle renewals. Your domain is already pre-paid until January 2013.
The cost to renew after that is around $45 a year, but it is much
cheaper if you purchase a 3 or 5 year renewal.

Board
decided to keep the website address and would like to keep email paths.  We will not be going exclusively to
facebook.  This is a good opportunity
to rebuild the site and move away from a blog format.

Amaya
to email David Trick to see if what he would charge to build us a new site
and get us going to maintain it

Joe
to speak to his friend about possibilities as well.  Will email Erik to ask how to keep the
website as is on our own.

Website

Help
with non-profit status

Grant
writing

Secretary

Joe – 501(3)c status

Joe – Grant

Joe – Guernica-Gernikra – Campaign to move Picasso’s
“Guenrica” to Gernika

Gaizka – 2010 financial statement.

Amaya – Language

Dani – UW Language day/partnership with Center
for Spanish Studies

ML- Amuma says no recap

Gaizka – Chorizo for Sale

Amaya Summer Picnic /Save the date

Articles due to Amaya Sunday, March 13

Amaya will compile and format and send to ML
by Tuesday or Wednesday.

ML can print and send the week of 3/21

Gaizka to send updated member list

Center for Spanish Studies asked if we could
send a rep for their language symposium on April 16, 9:00-1:00.  ML spoke with Jean Escoz and he’s
interested but needs more details. Amaya will put Jean in touch with CSS.

$750($300 refundable)

Location includes tables, chairs, full commercial kitchen, cookware, dishes, serving utensils, cutlery. 

Need to bring decorations, tablecloths, napkins, extra forks, spoons, knives.

Ok to extend reservation to 9 or 10pm

Volunteers for set-up/clean-up crew

Meal pricing – wider gap between members/non members

Menu – can Conchita cook for us?

Banquet permit to serve wine and beer

Sound system for dance?

Options for hosting a web site:

• Run a blog at WordPress.com - this is a free service that runs the same software I use for all of my projects. Your address would be businessname.wordpress.com, or you can pay $12 a year to use a custom domain such as businessname.com (not including the cost of registering the domain name).
• Create a Facebook Page – this is perhaps the easiest way to connect with a large group of potential visitors. On the other hand, it could be difficult to keep up with Facebook’s frequent changes to its terms of service and privacy settings, and also monitoring comments posted on your page. More information is available at http://www.facebook.com/pages/learn.php. 
• Host your own site through a commercial web host – this is what I currently do. Most hosts start at $5 – $10 a month. This would require fairly technical knowledge about building and maintaining a web site. I’ve used www.asmallorange.com and www.dreamhost.com and I would recommend either of them.

Options for email:

• Use free web-based services such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. This is an easy solution but the downside is that you would lose the custom domain (i.e. you would be name@gmail.com instead of name@yourdomain.com). Using Gmail for Business (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/gmail.html), you can set up an account in the format name@yourdomain.com, but at a cost of $50 per year.
• You can set up a business email account that provides email services without also paying for the web hosting. Register.com has a service starting at $2.92 a month: http://www.register.com/product/businessemailsolutions.rcmx

Maintaining a domain name
We will need to transfer your domain name to your credit card so that you can handle renewals. Your domain is already pre-paid until January 2013.  The cost to renew after that is around $45 a year, but it is much cheaper if you purchase a 3 or 5 year renewal.

3.  Basque Government Grants or other questions:  Benan Oregi will be present at the meeting and will be happy to answer any questions your club might have regarding Basque Government items.  We will NOT be voting on delegates to the Basque World Congress this meeting.  That vote will take place in July.

4.  Basque Chaplins:  Fr. Mike Lastiri is offering to assist Basque clubs with the celebration of a Mass in Basque/English at any festivals this year.  Please go to http://nabasque.org/catholics.htm  for his information.  We have also had an offer from Fr. Ander Guillegui (Leitza, Navarra) who is willing to come during the summertime to give masses.  We will have his contact information up soon.

5. Cultural Offerings:  February meeting deadline:  Please find out if your club is interested in any of the following:  
http://nabasque.org/NABO/Member_services.htm  

6. Presentation on Basques in Louisiana:  There will be a presentation on Basques in Louisiana for all those interested directly after the meeting

Gaizka – 2010 financial statement.

Amaya – Language

Dani – UW Language day

Amuma says no recap

Spring Dinner/Summer Picnic

Lotteria – Feb 26 at Dani’s

Outing to Taberna del Alabardero

40k-70k and the Production Grant which would be for 3 years up to $1 million.  The money would be paid to Canyon Studios through SEE and SEE would retain 5%.    

SEE would need to apply for 501(3)c status in the near future in order to apply for the grants in January 2012

Essentially we will be stating that we can be self sustaining but in order to take the next steps for establishing dance, euskara etc. we need assistance.  

By the next meeting Gaizka will have a rough draft and proposed dollar amounts to present to the board.

Ballard NW Senior Center $450, $200 refundable deposit

Central Area Senior Center, $600

 West Seattle Masonic Lodge, price unknown  

$850 to apply for 501(3)c status

Non-profit in the state of WA needs to be re-established

Summer Picnic – August 13 at Sportsman State Park

Joe – 501(3)c status

Gaizka – 2010 financial statement.

Amaya – Language

Dani – UW Language day

Amumua Says No – March 5 at Hales Ales

Harvest Vine, Saturday, February 5

Lotteria – Feb 26 at Dani’s

Outing to Taberna al Bloublabla??

Potential Lecture Winter/Spring 2011 Series: Oscar Alverez Gila (visiting scholar at the Center for Basque Studies) on Basque identity

Potential Dance Instructors’ Summit (Spring 2011): Dance Instructors Summit to assemble instructors to jointly develop initiatives  

Potential Summer/Fall 2011 Basque cultural tour: Urko Menaia a singer of traditional ballads

Potential Montreal (Quebec) guided tour for interested persons in conjunction with the NABO meeting weekend of Sept. 17, 2011

Potential Summer/Fall 2011 GUREA: Visiting workshops to follow up on last summer’s successful tour of bringing cultural workshops to your community

Potential Basque Youth Day Summit (Summer 2012): Elko: July 2012 to provide a forum to celebrate & educate our Basque youth