🌻Congress And The BoardMinutes2025-07-27

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Cyberia Congress
Sunday, July 27th
12:00PM to 1:30PM CDT

Agenda
Welcome and Convene [5 minutes]
hang out while folks join the call and chat about the agenda and meeting

Quorum present

Opening remarks

Review previous minutes

Approve or amend agenda

Orient new members

Approve new members

Attendance

Voting Members

alena

alexi

carbide_flux

everwalladoor

karlexceed

queerposting

reese

starless

lozaning

zico

kbot

margo

forest

Non-voting attendees

olive

mara

Status Updates [10 minutes]
each officer and branch head will provide a brief summary of work since last congress and upcoming work

Officers
Descriptions here: wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/congress_and_the_board/officers

President

Secretary

Treasurer

Financial health of Cyberia

Again has access to bank account

Current balance: $5383.01

$5 going away every month due to inactivity fee

Further discussion still needed on current funds in account on how they should be distributed

From last congress

Jess owed money from the account (look to forest for working this out)

Only Jess/Chris can actually use money from the account atm

Money held by Jess/Chris

OpenCollective review

Current balance: $1,575.03

Monthly income: $1,408.80 (From contributions made in June 2025)

Donations still needed for L0

(need to be explicity that donations are not tax deductable)

Donations needed to not burn out members and keeping L0 viable place to organize

Branches
Descriptions here: git.cyberia.club/cyberia/congress-active-branches

Services (forest)

Meta

Outreach and Moderation (starless)

Hardware Liberation

Rituals and Regalia

Games

Business [20-30 minutes]
make formal proposals for discussion and vote by membership
anyone may make proposals
please edit this section to add your own, post in Matrix, or DM president or secretary

Open Forum [10-20 minutes]
open discussion format to discuss matters relevant to cyberia
Topics:

Adjournment and Summary [5 minutes]
a summary of the meeting, follow-up, and celebration

Meeting Summary

List action items and people responsible

Celebrate contributions and recognize members' accomplishments

Adjourned

Footnotes

IRS Form 1024 - www.irs.gov/pub/irs-access/f1024_accessible.pdf

IRS Form 1024 Guide - www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1024

IRS Form 990-N - www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/annual-electronic-filing-requirement-for-small-exempt-organizations-form-990-n-e-postcard

Filing cost for IRS Form 1024 is $600 payable to the IRS and takes ~9 months to process. This is one-time for the life of the organization.

https://minnesotanonprofits.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/alternatives-for-starting-a-nonprofit-chart.pdf

https://minnesotanonprofits.org/resources-tools/starting-a-nonprofit/benefits-and-disadvantages-of-obtaining-501c3-tax-exemption

https://minnesotanonprofits.org/resources-tools/starting-a-nonprofit