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=== Financial Report === Dongs in bank: enough. Kelly: Um so. *ahem* So the first thing is I forgot to file our tax extension thing [DOBrien: and we're all going to jail] This does not in any way endanger our nonprofit status. What this does is it incurs some sort of fine which I will hopefully be able to pay myself. Miloh: IRS is busy worrying about some churches these days. Oh wait they don't have taxes. They didn't file. Kelly: I talked to our tax guy. It's fairly straightforward to file so I'm doing that now. But in doing them I pulled up a year-to-date profit and loss from 2010. It's pretty disturbing. We lost money in 2010. DOBrien: 2010 was our suck year, right? Kelly: For the year of 2009, our total income was $72000 and hey note-taker? I have a PDF here so you don't have to take all the notes. Note-taker [silently]: DONE TAKING NOTES BITCHES, AWWWW YEEEEEE Kelly: way less income, bulk of that is decreased membership dues. Donations also went down, but not by as much. Last year we had some money. This year we lost some money. DOBrien: This is only retrospectively disturbing. We all know we had to scramble, etc. It's not like 2010 was sucking down the money that we made this year. Kelly: We need to do something differently this year. We had some winter panic, but then things went back to where they were. Shannon: Can we permanently agree to refer to it that way, as the winter panic? John: Shouldn't we wait till after Maker Faire and then reassess what -- Kelly: Pushing the regular donations thing is good, and we should keep doing that, but I think we need to have a maybe 2 or 3 times a year [some: PLEDGE DRIVE!] publicity push. Generally speaking, it seems that the way we earn the most money is in financial panics. "Save noisebridge" works pretty well, but maybe there are some positive things we could say rather than "make sure we don't die". Jason: We should have a panic. We should have a party. With beer. Shannon: Problem: Everyone goes to our parties and gets too drunk to remember to give us money. DObrien: I move that we have an extended discussion of this after the meeting.
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