Hi everyone,

We have some BIG changes happening now or in a near future, so here we go:

1. Please welcome our NEW VOLUNTEERS (included in this listserv)! 😄🎉

Diana Paola Nuñez (Peru): compilation of the former speakers' information into the new spreadsheet system + moderation in future webinars
Grethell Mabel (Peru): speakers' new spreadsheet system
Luan Cleber Henker (Brazil): speakers' new spreadsheet system + moderation in future webinars + webinar Zoom data stats and organization
Fábio Ranyeri (Brazil): speakers' new spreadsheet system + moderation in future webinars + artwork and team-up with Jeann
Peres Badial (from Brazil, but currently in the US): webinar Zoom data stats and organization
Ravindran Ramanathan (India): webinar Zoom data stats and organization
Peter Mark Eguia (Hong Kong): webinar Zoom data stats and organization + moderation in future webinars
Javaria Mashkoor (Pakistan): artwork for Newsletter
Randi Gold (US): artwork for Newsletter and team-up with Jeann

Some of our new volunteers will team up with other members and engage in collaborative or independent projects in the meantime

We'll keep track of the status of the projects and move to other tasks when appropriate

New volunteers: you will all receive an invite for the Foundation's account in Slack shortly

2. The Foundation has revamped logo, banner, certificate templates, and social media names 🔥

3. Webinar videos older than 6 months to be "removed" from YouTube's channel 📽

This was definitely not an easy discussion, but the board of directors has come to the decision of making the videos of webinar older than 6 months PRIVATE on YT.

There are many reasons supporting this decision, but the main goals were to avoid information getting outdated and "exhausting the system" (i.e., that way we create more opportunities for future webinars with similar, perhaps more updated, topics and not get too repetitive).
We know many of those videos were advertised as "indefinitely", so we will launch a 1-month notice on social media and listserv to the community.
Once the deadline is up, we'll have to edit the texts in some of them to replace the "indefinitely" part.

4. G suite accounts were created and will be employed soon 💌

We will have 3 emails for hosts (e.g., host.1@davisthompsonfoundation.org) / 2 emails for certificate sending / 1 for survey evaluation / 4 for moderators (subject to change)
That way, volunteers assigned to the respective tasks will all have the same access via shared password to the email.
We will experiment with these addresses shortly and share the info with the assigned volunteers in Slack.

5. Please indicate your availability for the next monthly Webinar Committee Meeting HERE. 🗨

In this meeting, we will hopefully properly introduce the new volunteers to the entire group, discuss the progress of projects, and other topics (please send me topics you'd like to bring to everyone's attention).
If you haven’t used When2Meet, all you need to do is highlight in green your availability in the calendar grid. Make sure you match it with your time zone as well.

Cheers!

Rachel