Hi Cascadians,

At least two of us will meet at noon on Saturday, December 13 at the Kirkland Library to work on our initial small grant request for GAC/PEG startup funding including the December food budget. We will also study the bylaws of other Wikimedia affiliates and potentially start to draft bylaws. If you want to get involved, please join us. Final proposals for bylaws will most likely be discussed in January or February, and there will be more opportunities to participate between now and then.

I am hoping to have the initial small grant request ready for our Board to review sometime in the next few weeks so that it can be submitted to WMF by the end of December. The larger grant that funds programs for next year will be drafted after we have finalized a list of which programs we want to run, so that grant request will likely be drafted in January or February after the first Board meeting. I hope that the Board will finalize the bylaws by the end of February.

Cheers, Pine

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