The Seattle Euskal Etxea Board of Directors generally meets the first Tuesday of the month and SEE members are welcome to attend.  Please contact vicepresident@seattleeuskal.org for meeting time and location.

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April 5,
2011

In attendance

Joe Guerricabeitia – President

Gaizka Mallea – Treasurer

Amaya Michelena – Secretary

Marilou Michelena – Director

Financial Update – Gaizka	Status – No updates Outstanding reimbursements -Joe G has one for chorizos and one for the non-profit workshop. Gaizka ordered debit card
Membership Update – Gaizka	Gaizka will bring a sign-up sheet to dinner, which we will use to verify and update contact information.   Dani will be the primary meet/greeter/money taker while Gaizka is playing mus.
Mus – Gaizka	Next game Sat 04/09/11 @ 7pm at Joe G’s
Euskara Lessons – Amaya	Next meeting is April 17.  So far only 3 students have consistently attended meetings.
Newsletter	Joe to email last newsletter to member and non-member groups.  ML to take out financial info in the newsletter for non-member group.
Spring Dinner Venue – Amaya	http://www.nwseniorcenter.org/facilities_rentals.aspx Reserved Ballard NW Senior Center, April 16 10am-8pm $750($300 refundable) Location includes tables, chairs, full commercial kitchen, cookware, dishes, serving utensils, cutlery.   Menu lamb, chorizo, salad, tortilla, bread, wine and soda. Members to bring a side or dessert to share.   Board to arrive at 10am to set up.   *No raffle this year*   11-12 Mus registration, $30 per team 12-4 Mus Tournament 4-SEE General Meeting/Elections – Name change? Webmaster assistance? 4:30 dance 5-7 Dinner Dinner Prices – $20 member, $30 non-member, $40 member family, $60 non-member family   Joe to email Toni to see if she needs a sound system for the dance group Amaya and Marilou to visit Ballard Senior Center on Thursday to check out kitchen.
Elections	Joe – pres, Amaya – VP (if Dani isn’t running), Gaizka- Treas, ML & Dani – Director.  Amaya to email Michele to see if she would want to be secretary
SEE Website – Joe	Website re-structure/reformatting committee -a) Hiring a webmaster (David T. unless someone from Spring Dinner would like to volunteer) -b) Establish short-term web page goals (smooth transition to new provider,etc) vs long-term (re-design of page) -c) Things to keep in mind (see below) SEE WEBSITE-Our webmaster is closing his business. We need to determine how we wish to proceed. 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.
Non-Profit 501(3)c Info – Joe	Forming a 510(c)3 class recap -a) Re-establishing Articles of Incorporation with the State of Washington (Joe) -b) Requesting an EIN (Joe) -c) Club name change? (General Meeting) -d) New SEE financial acct (Gaizka) -e) 501(c)3 application (Gaizka)
Other Business	None
Next Meeting	May 3, 6:30 at Amaya’s

March
8, 2011

In attendance

Joe Guerricabeitia – President

Danielle Bock-Grande – Vice President

Gaizka Mallea – Treasurer

Amaya Michelena – Secretary

Marilou Michelena – Director

Financial Update – Gaizka	Cash balance $—
Membership Update – Gaizka	In prior years we had around $— in membership dues.  Currently have around $—.  Gaizka provided a list of members who have not paid yet this year and suggested that we contact them after the spring dinner if they haven’t paid yet.
Mus – Gaizka	Nothing new to report
Euskara Lessons – Amaya	Attendence is dropping off but hoping will pick up at the next meeting. 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.
Spring Dinner Venue – Amaya	http://www.nwseniorcenter.org/facilities_rentals.aspx 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
SEE Website – Joe	Our webmaster is closing his business. We need to determine how we wish to proceed   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.
Elections	Need to recruit new blood for help with: Website Help with non-profit status Grant writing Secretary
Non-Profit 501(3)c Info – Joe	Gaizka and Joe to attend a non-profit workshop on March 24. Debbie C. mentioned that we might already have 501(3)c non-profit status.  Joe will email founding members to see if they have any details.
Oharrak – Joe	Topics for next newsletter 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
UW Language Day – Dani	Language day went well.   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.
Summer Picnic Venue – Marilou	August 13 at Sportsman State Park in Yakima – must be out by 6.  No kegs
Next Meeting	April 12 at Amaya’s house 6:30
Other	Toni bought 4 hours at a Senior Center in Mt Baker.  SEE can reimburse and host Olentzaro this year.

February 8, 2011

In attendance

Joe Guerricabeitia – President

Danielle Bock-Grande – Vice President

Gaizka Mallea – Treasurer

Amaya Michelena – Secretary

Marilou Michelena – Director