2020-11-25 Leadership Cadence Notes

Date

25 Nov 2020

Item

Presenter

Notes

Chief Technology Officer

Incorporation and 501c3 status

Eddie reached out to A&P asking about timelines on incorporation and 501c3 status
A&P hopefully received our “pressure” for timeline
Need to brush up a few details about IRS filing
Likely 2 or 3 more weeks until filing

Software offerings for non-profit discounts

Most software companies end up using a third party to confirm non-profit status before offering discounts
Likely legal grey area for both parties if you promise a “pending” non-profit status

Confluence Standard Trial Ended

What we lose going from Confluence Standard to Freemium:
- Restricted to 10 users (matches our current Jira restriction)
- Space and Page permissions
- Allowing anonymous access to our Confluence site
With 501c3 status we can get either a free Server (self-hosted) installation or 75% off of Cloud licenses
Possible next steps as interim until 501c3 status:
- Ride the free plan out and continue developing/improving our project documentation, but not be allowed to share pages publicly
- Pay for a couple of Standard ($5/month) accounts. They'd be designated "content editors"
- Get a Server deployment for 10 users. Would be $10 total, as an upfront cost.
  - Pros: Cheaply build out our Confluence and be able to share it all publicly.
    Can also tack Jira onto our Server for another $10.
    Transitions well if we decide on the free Server w/our 501c3
  - Cons: Would have to pay for our hosting
    Time getting things set up
    If we decide on the 75% discount for cloud, we would have to migrate our data back
Good idea to think about not spending money trying to predict what PDAP might be in the future

Industry Connection and Board Diversity

Eddie made a connection with Burke Brownfeld
- Very interested in the outlook of our project and how we are trying to achieve change
Eddie would like to tap into him as a resource for identifying diversity for the PDAP board

PDAP Architecture Workshop Review

Zach Goulson Reach out to Atlassian by 29 Nov 2020
Zach Goulson Reach out to Louisville Courier-Journal by 29 Nov 2020
Alec Akin (Unlicensed) Work to determine how different industries approach data/tip validation
Eddie Brown (Unlicensed) Announcing CTO 25 Nov 2020
Alec Akin (Unlicensed) and Zach Goulson poking around at using Splunk for developing schema and guiding ETL scripts