Top Goals for the Year

• Improve license review process: establish project/program manager role, document how the process works.
• Establish sustainable internal capacity for managing volunteers, focused on volunteers to existing incubator projects.
• Improve efficiency/automation so we can scale
  • Replace several general mailing lists with an AskBot instance.
  • Explore options to automate communications in 2017-2018 communications plan.
  • Experiment with discount codes, sharing OSI membership to members of Affiliates

May

June

July

August

September

• Make go/nogo call on whether to hold face-to-face meeting in November (Board)

October

November

• Face-to-face Board Meeting
• Discuss plan for 20th anniversary celebration (Board)
• Form Elections Committee for 2018 (Board)
• Kick off end-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)

December

• Review voting system and ensure no changes are needed (Infrastructure, Elections Committee)
• Finalize list of individual and affiliate seats open in 2018 (Elections Committee)
• End-of-year fundraising drive (Communications, Fundraising)

January

• Announce schedule of upcoming elections and seats available (Elections Committee, Communications)
• Kick off membership drive, in advance of election (Membership)

February

• Open and complete election nomination period (Elections Committee, Communications)

March

• Open and complete election voting period (Elections Committee, Communications)

April

• Elected board members take seats April 1, 2017
• Orient new board members (Board, Patrick)