Annual General Meeting 2024-25 ==================== Date: 10th July 2024 Time: 9:05pm Venue: Facebook Chat Agenda ====== Attendance ## 1. Welcome, apologies, previous minutes and action points Welcome - Logan Bruce, Jim McCafferty, Philip Henry, Apologies - Terry Grew, Lyndsay Wallace previous minutes Proposed: Bruce previous minutes Seconded: Philip previous minutes Vote: Unanimous 1.1 Officers Reports Accepted - Nothing to report Budget Proposed: Philip Budget Seconded: Bruce Budget Vote: Unanimous ## 2. Membership Figures The GoogleGroup currently stands at 21k+ members. >Facebook Membership 6K 3. Annual Events 2024-25 - Culture Night Belfast has been cancelled because it lost its funding. There was no in-person event on culture night 2023. To celebrate Studio NI's 20th Anniversary (Sept 2024) we organised an event at European Heritage Open Day (14th Sept 2024). - NI NoWriMo (Nov 2024) National Novel-Writing Month has discontinued most of its regional work. We will continue to hold now-unofficial Nano meetings. Face to face meetings (Thursday) and Discord (Monday) ## 4. Motions Move App Development Meeting to 9PM. Proposed: Bruce, Seconded: Philip, Voted: Unanimous 4.1 plans for 2025-6 hit 500 downloads on the app and people authoring posts 4.2 Committee to meet up next week to discuss the mobile app. 5. Elections Nominations: Chairman Logan, Bruce Proposed: Jim Seconded: Philip Voted: Unanimous Treasurer Henry, Philip Proposed: Bruce Seconded: Jim Voted: Unanimous Secretary McCafferty, Jim Proposed: Bruce Seconded: Philip Voted: Unanimous Member w/o portfolio Wallace, Lindsay Proposed: Bruce Seconded: Philip Voted: Unanimous Member w/o portfolio Grew, Terry Proposed: Bruce Seconded: Philip Voted: Unanimous Nominate Seconded Vote After the AGM is concluded, the newly elected Committee will take control. 6. AOB 7. Date of Next Annual General Meeting Proposed June 2025. Facebook chat. Meeting Concluded at: 21:40 ----------------------------------- Annual General Meeting 2023-24 ==================== Date: 8th June 2023 Time: 8pm Venue: Facebook Chat Agenda ====== Attendance 1. Welcome, apologies, previous minutes and action points Welcome - Logan Bruce, Jim McCafferty, Philip Henry, (Terry Grew : 830pm) Apologies: Lyndsay Wallace previous minutes Proposed: Jim previous minutes Seconded: Bruce previous minutes Vote: Vote passed (Jim, Bruce, Philip) 1.1 Officers Reports Accepted - Nothing to report Budget P: Proposed, S: Bruce, V: Una 2. Membership Figures The GoogleGroup currently stands at 18,831 members. GG 8 days ago Twitter cut off the link. Bruce has been taking screen shots of the GG and posting manually. Discussion about the exploration of alternative social media outlets. 3. Annual Events 2023-24 - Culture Night Belfast has been cancelled because it lost its funding. There will be no in-person event on culture night 2023. If we want to celebrate Studio NI's 19th Anniversary (Sept 2023) we will need to organise a seperate event. Leave it until the 20th anniversary. European Heritage Open Day - Registration until the 11th June. Takes place 9th/10th September. - NI NoWriMo (Nov 2023) Face to face meetings (Thursday) and Discord (Monday) Too late to sign up as a municipal liaison. 20:30 Terry Grew joined the meeting. Unable to install the app on his IPhone. Jim to put an OBS presentation together for the app and send to committee. 4. Motions 4.1 plans for 2024-5 N/A th/8th september european open day... portrush? 2024. Bruce Propose, Jim Second, Unanimous. 4.2 Meet up Sat 10th June 2023 8:00pm to discuss the mobile app. 5. Elections Nominations: Chairman Logan, Bruce Treasurer Henry, Philip Secretary McCafferty, Jim Member w/o portfolio Wallace, Lindsay Member w/o portfolio Grew, Terry Nominate Bruce, Seconded Jim, unanimous After the AGM is concluded, the newly elected Committee will take control. 6. AOB 7. Date of Next Annual General Meeting Proposed June 2024. Facebook chat. Meeting Concluded 22:00. Chairman's Report ================= We have chaired weekly committee meetings every Saturday evening to discuss the App development. Secretary's Report 2023 - Jim McCafferty ======================================== I have continued to support the Studio-NI android app over the past year. The app has been enhanced to include: - The ability for admin to delete posts - An email alert being sent out to Bruce when a new post has been added - Notifications sent to Android users when a new post has been added During our weekly meetings, I have been analysing performance data from the Google Play Console and relating statistics to the committee. I have also played an active role prepating the application for live roll out. Treasurer's Report ================= nothing to report