 Yes we are now. Awesome well welcome everyone. You should all have the board packets in the folder. You have three agenda items for the open session which is our regular operational updates and some Q&A there as well as an update on the mission statement coming out of the retreat in Chicago a couple of weeks ago and then Jeff is going to give us an update on the PTO hires. After that we're switching to executive session where we have a number of topics as well. We're going to talk about new revenue streams. Megan is going to hit that up. We're going to do an update on the financials from the you know finance committee headed by Tiffany. We have to talk about the D to the Working Groups and you know look for two new members and she will take the lead in that discussion and then we need to talk a little bit about the performance review of our executive director. With that I think we can get started with the operational updates. Sounds good thanks Trice. So thanks everyone for making time especially folks on the call who are not on the board. I do believe that someone is buttering some toast and might want to mute themselves. That's my interpretation of what's happening. Maybe a bagel I don't know. So some updates. So first just an update about the updates in your board packet. So a couple of things that as we continue to evolve the packet for 2014 things we've discussed with the board but I want to point out are in here now. So as we discussed one of the elements that I want to make sure that we are putting in front of the board every month are the things that we are worried about not just the stuff that we were you know managed to accomplish each month and so you'll notice throughout the staff update this this time we've got a section in each area for risks and what we're doing to mitigate those risks just to put some things in front of you that you know our concerns and they're not necessarily they're not you know they're not all risks in the sense of like this thing could happen tomorrow and the world would end but these are you know just situations we're trying to keep an eye on and I wanted to get those out there for the board so that you you don't get surprised by anything that might pop up you know and become an issue that we is a hair on fire issue that we actually have to talk about and also because you know our assessment of that risk might be too positive and maybe you see something there that you know you really want to make sure that we're alerted to. So we added that section to the packet and that'll be a regular feature from now on and then the other bit is just the evolution of the metrics so we got our dashboard in place and got the January numbers in there we still have some stuff to work out to make it as as compelling a resources it can be in terms of pointing at where we're really at so I'll walk through some places we're still working it out but as discussed we now can present to you what the actual goal is for the whole year with the year to date goal is where we're at right now and you know whether we think we're on track or not so we can talk about that as we get into some of these specifics but those are a couple of evolutions to the packet this time through so overall I just say you know we've been really busy it's good that we're busy right and things are moving right along the the Drupalcon planning continues apace the Austin site is out there registration and hotel pickups are looking good sponsorship sales are really strong advertising contracts that sales those sales have been really strong as well in fact we've met a lot of our annual goals already so we've got lots of good stuff going on over here and we are definitely also beginning to pick up steam and make strides on the Drupal org side as well so got a couple of got a couple of ideas launched through the working groups and actually you know funded the project and are starting to work on things so all of those cogs are beginning to turn and it feels like we're picking up momentum in the right places so I'm really excited about that the energy and enthusiasm over here and how quickly people are working to make good stuff happen the big the bigger sort of organizational risks that I've been keyed into right now are just being able to hire fast enough and and hire well when we do it so you know most of our hires are on the technical side those hires are a little bit more difficult to make those folks are really in demand so we have been you know really trying to get our ducks in the road to bring people on to that team luckily a lot of our hires are on the infrastructure side to help support a lot of the to help support a lot of the tools that the community needs including things like you know test bots stuff like that dev environments fun things like that and those candidates are a little bit easier to source because we actually have a total a labor pool of folks who've already worked on our stuff at the OSL so we feel good about that but I want to make sure that we keep on top of hiring governance is also an issue that we've discussed at the board level it seems like after a few months of you know watching and waiting and seeing where things might land that people are still the groups continue to sort of you want to use the forming storming norming metaphor right are still forming sometimes storming so we definitely need to pay attention to governance and figure out how to make sure that those charters are really clear for people in a practical way because I think the words make sense on paper and then what you actually do with them is another thing Angie and I had a great sort of exercise in Chicago where that became really clear so we have some work to do in governance and then you'll notice in the dashboard when we get down through some of this stuff that the Drupal dot org performance has had a tough time in the last particularly in December but then moving into January as well and some of those things were sort of anomalous mistakes or anomalous things that have happened and you know we're still working our way into more normal numbers having addressed the issue but yeah we definitely have some things to do on performance you know hence the hiring really well making that be important so those are my my key things that I keep working out to get you into the dashboard a little bit just to let you know the way we've organized this if we're at 90% of the goal or above the cell is green if we're 75 to 89% of goal it is yellow if it is under 75% of goal it is red so those are the things that are of big concern for us and we have a lot of green to look at which is really really great particularly revenue is looking really good so far like I said sponsorship for the cons has been really strong a lot of the advertising revenue has come in really really strong so those numbers look really good they're coupled a little bit with some savings on the staffing side and that savings is again got a couple of hires that are going to come on a little later than we had hoped they would but the big chunk of that is actually that our health insurance premiums did not increase when we thought they would so we came out yes is probably an extra zero in their Angie that's what happens when you type by hand into things be nice at a billion dollars though wouldn't it I'll figure that out Angie let me look at that a minute no wait yeah it's a million million let's I'll let me go let me go double check real quick in the spreadsheet when I get done talking so let me let me clear that number up for you and these are copy and pasted from a Google doc so we'll see something with something went awry anyway so that's the big picture on revenue and it is good that we came out ahead of our projected loss for the month by quite a bit but as we've talked about before I don't want to see big swings I want to see a seat in the pocket and managing to that budget really well so other numbers to look at in in hard of a strong community the program participants we only have the Drupalcon Austin numbers in there so far and this was as of January 31st so obviously those numbers have shifted in the last two weeks but the it looks red but that's because we divided the 8,000 by 12 right so this is one of those numbers where we're gonna have to figure out what is the what are the rolling hills of that number actually look like but we feel like there's no need to worry there yet actually. Sorry Holly this is Angie I just had a quick question you know in on January 15th coinciding with with Drupal's birthday of the Drupal Association did a push around like a big sprints type of thing if we know participant numbers from that it could be factored that into this number to make it here. We probably wouldn't count that here you know we would be putting that more in the like that which opens are the commits. So this program participants we define as Drupalcon's global training days webinars those sorts of things yep so that's why that one's in the red the other red number and in community is average membership spend so you may recall that last year we implemented a slider the idea that people could give as little as ten or fifteen dollars as much as they wanted up with this magical slider tool it's set to default at 35 which was above what we were charging for membership before but new members not the renewing ones but the new members definitely dragged that slider down so it is yeah so so we're not able to you know we're seeing a negative number there rather than a positive number and that's something that we're gonna you know continue there's some more comments down in the board talk about that but that's something that we've been talking about and looking at but again with membership not being the biggest slice of our revenue pie it's not we're pretty close on target for overall membership dollars so we're not it's not a priority at the moment put it that way and then under Drupal adoption we have a nice big fat green number and the first number which is number of Drupal sites but that would be again because we just took the goal of one million four hundred thirty five thousand and divided by twelve that's not really how it works because we started with a number we need to grow that number we're gonna work on that so with some false positives in here but we did have a good number of contributors which we were excited to see and amazingly responsive maintainers for some reason in the month of January so those are our top-level statistics that's about that questions about any of those you know in terms of the membership if we can even even if people are dragging it down to the lowest level increase the overall number of people who count themselves as members I would personally I would think of that as a win yeah there's a couple ways to look at you know how we want to evaluate membership and this was one of the metrics we had selected is important this time around and you know we maybe maybe we reevaluate that but yeah the numbers the number of members is increasing the membership revenue looks decent so we'll have to figure that out we also might want to find figure out whether the vast majority of those new members are really young people who can't really afford at the structure in their lives to do more than the than the minimum amount yes I also have some speculation that they are very geographically diverse and if you are joining from Belize you don't have the same kind of expendable income right so all of that I think is is important to factor in again I would I would I would reiterate the number of people that that are counting themselves as members and are willing to put down a little bit of money to be members I think is in for this particular metric to me is probably the most important metric we want people engaged yep definitely okay and we'll see some of that in the membership numbers so under Drupal cons all right so our Drupal con dashboard again we talked about attendees because that's a metric from up above we just divided by 12 which doesn't make a lot of sense for the way that Drupal con attendance actually gets counted but we're we're doing fine we're actually doing fine on that according to some of the dashboards that we have for tracking you know the rate at which registrations come in so that's good and the revenues all on track so we're feeling good about that and Drupal con Austin is on target a good trend like we said towards that 4,000 person goal and scholarship stuff's coming in we're working on keynotes things just look look good for that and there's no real hiccups in terms of execution there we we do have a very big stretch goal getting to that 4,000 we think it's definitely possible but it is we could fall short of that it's a bigger increase percentage increase of attendance than we've had organically in the last few years so we have a PR and marketing plan in place if that falls short though you know we could end up with some smaller net revenue we're definitely not in danger of that con going red so that is good and obviously we'd look to offset costs as much as possible if we end up with the with an attendance shortfall but we don't feel like we have to look at that quite yet it's just something to put out there also mechanical bull we're gonna have one of those no no no liability issues on that the insurance company is being extremely creative with us so yeah and on Amsterdam we're just basically at this point getting ready to launch the site for that and some of the stuff that goes around launching the site we feel like attendance is really achievable there our big worry in Amsterdam is around the venue itself which was evaluated based on our older Drupal con specs when we were planning shows in Europe for 1500 people so there's no single space in the venue that will hold anywhere close to the number of people we expect to have at the at the show I think that's okay because not everyone comes to the key notes in person but but we're definitely we are definitely being very creative about space in Amsterdam hopefully you know in future shows we've got this worked out but this is the last one of those cons that was planned for with those very conservative assumptions about how we may or may not grow so there's that but other than that we've been working with a great local team Stephie has spent a lot of time with Barris and they have so many fun ideas and exciting things planned and so we're really excited to be able to get there and the last thing related to Drupal cons we had been talking about doing a an event for content management system evaluators CMS evaluators both in the CEO and the CIO kind of audience attached to a Drupal con we had been working with a firm to set that up and then they became pretty non responsive and that feels like you know if you're non responsive in the planning phases maybe you're not going to execute very well so we're looking for other firms to work with and we likely will not we're 99% sure this is not going to happen in conjunction with Austin we're looking to set something up in conjunction with Amsterdam at this point and and we'll do that there and and work to find some different vendors to contract with for that so an update on that event on the Drupal org side is where we start to see some red but we knew this and this is exactly the kind of thing we're trying to fix as we move into that dashboard you know we had some events in December that in January particularly we did some we did some work around there was some work done around test spots that then like didn't didn't align it so there's permissioning problems some other things that really drug the test spots down we think that those are are with Rudy's help diagnosed and fixed at this point so things seem to be performing since the January numbers much closer to much closer to goal but you know it was high in January we definitely understand that in addition to Rudy's time to help mitigate the issue that was there we are also currently bringing on a part-time dev ops person in a contract role to work with Rudy the initial focus will be on the development environments and so this is through the software working group budget that is part of our process and then we'll have some remaining time with that person to focus on some of the stuff that helps support Jeremy's Jeremy Thorson's test bot plan as well so we definitely are trying to take some proactive steps to provide support to Jeremy to make this you know make this better and less painful for people so there's that on some of the other issues average commits per person you know comments and the issues number of commits you know those are all some interesting numbers to to look at we know that there are some there's some UX issues that are related to that there's some community issues that are related to that there's a lot to untangle but for us our focus has been right now again on two strategies one is enabling volunteers better to help make those make those numbers go up and then the second is of course just trying to do what we can to improve the developer experience overall we're able to get some UX changes made which and she says are feeling better even if there were still still some struggles around how that got deployed and we are you know continuing to work on those kinds of issues one of the additional things we're doing since we had planned to bring on a developer in January or February to work with the tech team we found a great developer cannot bring that person until May so right now we're working on bringing on a contractor and using that you know salary budget to with a contractor for some time to help continue to resolve those those issues but do them a little more quickly any questions about this stuff putting this in the now we know category things we can work on I was just I was just sitting thinking I like all the metrics that we track yeah they're the right metrics to me good no I'm excited about the Drupal 8 landing page that gets a lot of traffic yeah I'm curious to see how that commenting and commits number if it's affected by that UX change going out yep yeah does that just happen like basically at the beginning of this month right yeah and it'll always be a little bit awkward some of these things because obviously things like commits like you can't say it was all UX changes right like any number of things yeah so to your point too right like we did the we did the push in January around January 15 right for Drupal's birthday it's hard to say if that number would have been even lower without that but but I like yeah no no go ahead I was just gonna say like when we're looking at these metrics one thing that might help is because there's also seasonal problems and there's like all kinds of other things yep once my health is a confidant to make more work for people maybe this is a good idea but maybe tracking what it was the year prior yep I don't know if anyone else has thoughts on that like 10,000 looks scary but maybe last year this time we only did 5,000 so on that respect it's like oh wow that's really good or you know what I mean I don't know what we did 50,000 last year and then it's like oh yes I don't know though that might be too much work I don't think it's too much work overall I'm not sure I would you know I think the point in this in this board update right is to try to keep things as concise as possible but we should definitely be using that data and to inform like the notes around it right so like oh it's 10,000 looks low but last year it was 10,002 right and the big peak comes in October whatever but they eventually at some point you'll you'll also get access to the dashboard dock itself which I have up on the screen right now so this is where we are actually tracking it the main page sort of will tally everything up but we'll be tracking all of these things monthly and then we'll have them all over time so it's something that we could go in and examine and we'll put eventually we'll put in some trend lines and whatnot so that there's some additional graphical analysis available we're still trying to make it work the right way in terms of figuring out particularly the tricky part is figuring out what should the year-to-date goal be right so anything else on that okay so then on the software side I think as we mentioned getting the UX improvements deployed was was really huge so I just want to take a moment to say thank you so much to Boyan and Melissa Anderson and Angie and all the people that really put in a lot of volunteer time to get that initial you know investment made and then you know drum took a good chunk of last week to make sure we reviewed those things and did some cleanup and we're able to get the major bits deployed and there's still some cleanup but it seems like it's a big improvement so that's great and then we were also able to get one good step of the you know empowering volunteer son which is getting a both a public and a private version of Bluetooth available in the public repository so you're able to get a version of blue cheese that lets you you know see what's you know develop in in a way that lets you understand how the theme will work without reproducing any of our branded elements so that is really great and we upgraded infrastructure dot Drupal org and this is a really key element both in terms of communicating with the community and in us you know our tech team getting being able to work more efficiently together so what's going to happen on you know infrastructure dot Drupal org is this this tool that will let people see you know where things are at so you know we've got issues and people sort of hash things out on the issues and then the patch is uploaded and then once your patch is in there it just sits there quietly until someone can look at it and you have no idea when someone might look at it or when it might be deployed right so we're working on that transparency tool at the infrasight that will let people know like this patch is scheduled to be reviewed here this patch is scheduled to be deployed here and we can provide some of that transparency that doesn't exist today and obviously it's also a great tool for us to use as a team so that'd be great and in future iterations that tool do a lot more but that's that's the first step so that was a big heavy lift for for Tatiana we're moving that forward so that seems good and one last big thing to celebrate on the software side is the developer tools leadership teams the first subgroup from the software working group so those guys just got spun up and are starting to tackle the questions around how we make developer tools better so you know I think the big thing or the big issue that we're still working on on the software side is still cleaning up and chasing T7 issues and it feels like everything in there feels very waterfall because there's one person doing it right so something gets attention for a while and then the next thing can have attention and like I said we're working on it getting a contractor in place until our developer can start so we can speed some of that up and that's our that's our tactic there to try to move that along a little faster and then I'm with Rudy on board on the infrastructure side just a ton of stuff is moving a little faster he definitely knows how to bribe the OSU OSL folks and he does it well so we are we're getting lots of stuff done there all with initials and acronyms the key thing is that the key thing is that we're getting set up again to support those localized development environments the first step is just getting development environments set up the right way and we're making lots of progress there moving to an open-stat cluster the and then the second thing that Rudy's really focused on is again helping to support whatever infrastructure Jeremy Thorson needs for his testing test box yep any questions around that okay I'm a community side I would just definitely like to highlight that global training days is this will probably be our biggest one that we've been able to do which I'm really excited about it scheduled for February 28th so we've been doing a lot of specific outreach I think the numbers are way up from 13 at this point so we'll have lots of good sites and some good stories to talk about there which is wonderful we've got webinars going up as well on the community side on our new revenue we're making progress on the job board the RFP closed on February 7th so we're in the process of evaluating proposals now from vendors and we're just trying to get that launched in the right time frame to meet our budget and as Megan points out here you know that's definitely a risk if we launch really late we're gonna have a tough time getting into people's budgets and won't meet our numbers and then of course we need to we need to get a traction from job seekers and so really helping the communities you know use this tool find the tool and use the tool is going to be a really important part of getting it up there so you know Joe's working with Megan to put together a good marketing and communications plan that that keeps that job board out there in front of people we talked about advertising just definitely doing really well so far with the spots that we have for hosting the Drupal 8 and the site builder landing pages we do have a few more landing pages scheduled to come on board come online this year and so we've been working to working with the content working group to really hash out our process there and make sure that they are it's clear like where they where their direction ends and our work begins and that we're staffing up in the right way to both get the landing pages created but then also manage them in an ongoing way so that they have good content strong SEO you know and just lots of interaction with folks so we have that in the staffing plan but those are things that we are you know definitely considering all the time. Skip down on marketing and membership there just to go to Matthew's a couple of Matthew's points there number of members we still we don't know what to calculate against for year to date yet but dividing 5,000 by 12 would put us at a 600 person goal and that seems silly so we're we're working on that but the numbers seem good the the revenue is we think is on track for where we want to be and we're working on figuring out what's the best way to reliably calculate the renewal rate so we'll get real numbers to you you know in the next month or two there it seems like it would be one number but there's like five ways to calculate this so but we feel good about that and you know the risk there as we mentioned is around that slider so we're going to be figuring out how to revise the wording or figuring out some ways to incent people to keep that slider up on the d8 marketing side some of these numbers are a little bit goofy because of course number of downloads of Drupal 8 that's not going to be very high yet so we're gonna you know same with number of uses so these numbers look red but we think they're actually fine for now it's just the way that the calculator is you know pulling it out by 12 so we'll have to work on some of those things and I think Joe's overall strategy with this is you know not being focused on you know how exciting Drupal 8 is going to be when it comes out right now but rather working within the community to try to get people to work on Drupal 8 itself so we did the birthday sprint on the 15th of February you know helping to promote the global sprint weekend you know there's lots of lots of initiatives for us just to help promote and so when things come up definitely let us know we want to make sure we can we can engage people in that and then you know other numbers under marketing communications just keep growing our audience which is great and things look to be on track for you know everywhere we want to be and we're going to start using advertising soon in our in some of our marketing efforts so we're just going to be toying with google ads twitter advertising particularly around the cons so that'll be interesting to see you know how we can use those tools to reach out to not just you know our own echo chamber but to see if we can expand our audiences a little bit as we've talked about that's an important part of growing the cons is growing the kind of people that come to the cons and we think this is a way that we can get to some of those folks so that's it um general operations and admin we're looking pretty good um AR collections look way over where they should be that's just part of the end of the year fun times because lots of people get invoiced at the end of the year and it takes a little while to get paid but i'm not concerned about that number overall um and then we continue to move over to our new bank um we have fun api problems with them oops our sentence got cut off i don't know where that went um so they um we have fun api problems with them and our accounting software zero they're working on some solutions for us um and until that gets resolved we continue to use bank of america primarily uh so that we can you know continue to get there that that banking feed easily um uh the european office um we did get word um a couple of weeks ago that all our paperwork was finally accepted we just sent over the final agreement so we should have our actual branch up and running within the next week or two um and that's going to allow us to do lots of fun stuff including opening our own merchant account which we'll need for dupercon Amsterdam um we can hire staff in the uk all kinds of fun things so this should be uh should be uh should be done in official in the next couple of weeks and then we can work on um communicating out some of the benefits for the community um and the last bit is that um we only have about two more weeks left in the portland state business accelerator office location where we launched in portland and we're really excited to move to a place that is not the bermuda triangle of portland the bermuda triangle of what of portland of portland yes all things come here to disappear into this little art like a vortex of terrible um we're going to like we're going to walk to a place and get a sandwich and it's going to be amazing so so that'll be uh the last week of february uh but nothing should change because except for our address uh nothing will change uh because we don't have any telephones or any kind of infrastructure that will be affected so it should be easy so is that a good bedtime story are you guys still there we are still here okay this is this is pretty uh i'm gonna actually use the word amaze balls i need a second um but yeah i don't know it's it's an awesome update holly like with the written text and then all the metrics it's there's very little to add good i'll you know keep sending me ideas for the format i i definitely want to keep hearing them but i'm feeling pretty good about where we're at with this now this is very helpful i think it gives us a very clear idea of of where we're headed and where we need to work i appreciate it can i can i just ask too like was it was it helpful in part that sort of drees took the agenda part of this and and entered it and sort of handled more of that like we said and does that help you holly focus on your sort of update being your primary content oh yeah i definitely like that part so i just want to double check real quick i don't see any questions in irc so i think we're okay can move on i don't know karen you're muted but you have your question thing up i don't know if you have a question let's take that as a no oh i was just commenting that i um i was chewing away thinking that i was muted earlier when you were suggesting somebody was buttering my toes oh okay okay good i did i did want to say i had lunch with somebody who's pretty active and well connected at automatic and um they had made a comment that um wordpress you know a huge part of their revenue i think they did around 40 to 50 million in revenue this year and um you know they they've had success with support and that's grown a nice business and they've had some pretty good success with their VIP hosting but where the really rapid growth has come from revenue and they may may soon become the number one source of revenue was that every page on wordpress that you click into unless you type the url directly you're presented with embedded video and through this ad choice network stuff so they just basically have video ads everywhere and so they're just getting millions if not on the way to tens of millions of dollars in advertising yeah dollar revenue coming in for video ads yeah we definitely see a ton more i mean obviously we we set some goals that felt aggressive and then met them in the first month right so clearly we underestimated that um although we have a lot more work to do to really show to to live up to that potential but i think there's a lot there is a lot there for sure um and i i definitely don't want to you know leave money on the table that we can use for the project um but obviously you know we'll want to do that in a way that makes sense to the community um and yeah i've been i've been looking at their stuff i mean they they built their own karen they built their own ad service right because they also sell that they else you can use that ad service if you have a wordpress site is that correct i'm not as familiar with those details but yeah that's just interesting that okay and just for the record denise is here too hi denise hi guys sorry i'm so late i had another unavoidable but here we are are you feeling better yes i'm so much better thank you for asking um yes i i'm i'm likely to fall into fits of coughing now right do you want to do we want to move forward that i think we're done with the operational update drace you muted yourself in case you're wondering there you go sorry about that all right so the next topic is to talk a little bit about the vision i'm going to ask met you to do so i can give a little bit of context so that's helpful while um you know matthew gets ready so this is coming out of the retreat in chicago a couple of weeks ago where we spent as a board we spend a couple days together to talk about division the governance and the values of the true classification so we kind of um you know introspect it ourselves about what we what we think we're doing well what we think we can do better what we're proud of where we want to get to uh and all of these things and based on that and you know matthew will give you the details here based on that we decided to evolve or revise our mission statement um and we would like to bring it to the board uh today uh for approval so uh matthew feel free to give us a little bit more color sure thanks trice um so i was uh i was asked if i would um distill our essentially our our our day and a half of effort into um half a page and uh uh that could be used i think i think internally and then uh perhaps uh um uh focused externally so people have a good sense of why it is that we're doing what we're what we're doing um and uh so i i uh i wrote to a half page which you all have uh i think you're you're all invited to um and what i'll do is i'll just go over it really quickly um broke it up into the three areas that we talked about division um the values and then the mission um and we decided that uh on a vision standpoint over the next three years that we want to have an engaged and satisfied uh and in brackets development community i think that we all just agreed that development was really important in this although there was some some discussion as to whether whether um that ought to be um the the 100% focus or not um so i've left it in in in parence and i think we could uh we could discuss that more but uh in terms of deciding whether we're going to adopt the uh the new mission i don't think that that that really affects that decision then the second thing that we uh talked about for our vision was that we want to have an accelerated adoption uh rate again in print parenthesis of druple the idea that we want to see druple grow um at a faster rate than it has been we decided uh in order for the board to support this activity that we need to anticipate the work needs of others and that's our community and we talked about the fact that that would be that could manifest itself as the tools that we provide for the uh the development portion of our community and the fact that we are part of the community and we need to embrace that we discussed values and we decided that we wanted to take action fail frequently be adaptable and be proactive rather than reactive and all of these things led us to look at the uh look at the mission statement and if i recall correctly tiffany just blurted out most of it almost almost perfectly which was just brilliant um but using values board role and vision as our filter we decided that uh that the we wanted a mission statement of druple powers the best of the web the druple associate unites a global open source community to build and promote druple and at the end we sort of came to the conclusion that that this statement is more aligned with the direction that the organization as a whole ought to be headed so that's that's my little tiny little report um on our on our retreat awesome is there any any questions i mean we as a board we've discussed this but i know there's any new thoughts or questions on this if not um i would move that we um accept this new uh mission statement and that we start to roll it out um anyone that wants to um second that motion all the seconds i did make some capitalization changes in the back all right awesome um so then the the last topic for the open session is to get an update from from jeff wallpole on the uh search aren't they hiring sorry set up again hey can you hear me yep yeah oh can you hear me oh yeah sorry i was unmuting i didn't know if it worked yeah so um just to tag i gave an update last month i think uh generally speaking things are i'm not going to go over all the sort of background again but um i think generally speaking things are looking up um after the uh after the new year we've had a lot more both quality and quantity uh i think in the candidates coming through uh we've also had really good uh involvement from the board and the advisory board members um michael mires uh george mosh david strauss denise holly everybody's been really helpful and i think that's all really positive um by the way i'm speaking from notes that i i dropped directly into the board packet in case anyone's wondering what i'm speaking from um we uh we've had about 60 applicants to date give or take um and we're keeping close track of them uh that's not still not the volume that you wanted but again it's picked up since the new year um i think about 15 people have had first round interviews i may have miscounted a little bit but it's roughly in that neighborhood to get the scale of it um and we currently have four people doing second round interviews which are technical interviews um so we're actually getting drees involved now um for the first time and that's been good um we're holding off on an executive recruiter um the cons are uh you know we still haven't had huge community help or involvement in sort of making referrals i mean it's been it's been a few troopers and and not a widespread uh you know referral network uh and generally speaking i think the qualifications of most of the candidates you know just sort of generalizing across the spectrum um a little bit below maybe where we wanted for the cto role um and drees has been uh vocal to holly and i about that as well recently just feeling like in general um you know our expectations are not quite as what have not really been met on that front um like i said uh he's getting involved now in a few uh interviews and uh i feel pretty good about the about the you know what we're pushing through now um relative to before uh but i would like to see it pick up with a few more folks um and uh we'll see where the next week goes uh as as always i can't for confidentiality reasons since it's a public board meeting i can't speak to individuals who are in the process um and and though even those that have access should should remain highly confidential about that um i don't think most these people are particularly sensitive but i think it's our obligation to to keep it confidential um those that need access can can get that through our recruiter box account so that's it um any questions do we have a sense of uh of timing for an offer no not at this time okay sorry okay um drees you want to take it back yeah sure uh is there anything else that anyone wants to bring up if not we're gonna move to the um executive session i don't know if there's any questions in on irc nothing in irc and i don't see anything else in the webinar either so i think we're good all right awesome well thanks everyone for uh tuning in and participating uh gonna adjourn and then um we'll regroup at the board on the other line have a great day all right