These are the notes from the spring town hall, slightly edited for this medium.  To contact an Ignition NW board member, write firstname@ignitionnw.org.
Recap of Goals from Fall Town Hall ‘06

 Develop information flow

• Publish and maintain calendar for community events
• Improve PR and Communications team
• Develop transparency with detailed notes and documented processes
• Improve member communications
• Develop branding and Ignition NW identity

Financial solvency

• IgnitionNW now has a bank account w/ two signers

Sponsor events that don’t belong to the board

Form executive committee/ strategic planning committee

• Undergo strategic planning process
• Craft mission and 5 year plan
• Gain 501c3 status- currently umbrellaed 501c3 under the Shunpike

SeaCompression Update

raisied $6685
Donating $1002 to Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF)

Strategic Planning

Eric Schinfeld of The Shunpike www.theshunpike.org

Why strategic planning?
Will help create a guiding document for next 5 years
Will be helpful when filing for 501c3 status

Held Strategic Planning focus groups-
Why are we doing this?
Who are we serving?
What does the community want?
How do you define this community?
What is a burner?

Energy is this community’s real resource- creating structure to strategically and effectively use our collected energy

Summary of feedback from focus groups-
Diverse community, self selected, show up, participate, get involved

What does the community see as Ignition’s goal?
Wanting to serve and foster this community.
Grow and develop strong ties in the community.

Programming or How Goals Are Accomplished?
Events- desire for diverse events beyond SeaCompression and Critical Massive; smaller, art focused events; not all events focused on fundraising

Advocacy- represented and legitimized to local mainstream community; city wide planning process; working with other arts/community organizations, outreach

External focus/Public Service- Burners w/o Borders; community service

Technical Services- Space, storing and exhibition of large scale art; funding to help
build local community- not playa focused; skill building- artistic, accounting, logistical; develop consulting aspect

The strategic planning document that will be created in the next few weeks will steer and guide the board in the next few years
Document is meant to be a continuing dialog
Board will seek some community input for the feedback, editing, rewriting process
Branding Ignition NW

Ignition NW logo contest
Your chance to create the design
Winner gets 2 free tickets to Critical Massive plus 2 tickets to Dark Skies http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/ courtesy of The Seattle Regionals.
More info coming soon!

Elections- Get on the Bus      

3 Big Changes

• Baby boomers handing down wealth
• 80% of established non-profit leadership will retire in next 5-10 years
• Burning Man community leading charge with sustainability and creativity

Be part of IgnitionNW and help continue the work that INW is doing

Organize on a “Theme Camp on Steroids” scale

Nominate yourself. Nominate your friends. All the kids are doing it.

Burning Man- the event in the desert- is temporary and is unlikely to last another 10 years

Kay adds- one of the unstated goals of INW is train people to be leaders AND we drink Whiskey
Mystery Date Member Event 

Ignition NW Members only cocktail party at secret location with secret prizes
Join IgnitionNW by visiting www.IgnitionNW.org
click join and then register
Project Announcements     

(These are announcements from Community Members that happened during the meeting.)

Mercedes Jaeger
October- November
“The Adventures of Hank McCain who killed Mysterioso”
Phill Arensberg’s 5 hour episodic radio play will be performed LIVE and then recorded and sold for Lots Of Money

“The North Arcade” a racy musical revue of based on the characters of the Pike Place Market. Did I mention racy?

Heather C
attended Portland Town Hall.
Dead Letter Ben developing Toolshed/Watershed project- multiuse facility/services project

Ron Richardson- Shady Asylum
Sod and Shade
Desperate for help w/ green power for the playa this year- need your expertise, ideas and input
www.Shadyasylum.org
“Come sit on the grass”

Karla Clark- caffeinated
Encouraging Burners to run for Seattle City Council
Looking for volunteer coordinator and graphic designers
Force City of Seattle to hold a primary for the elections
Contact Karla - foundwriter@hotmail.com

Jesse Robbins
Black Rock Federal Credit Union www.blackrockfederal.com
Non-profit/ member owned
Focusing on building a technology platform for creating credit union
“Disruptive innovations in the world of finance”

Diem
www.EschFest.com
July 13-15th
Event to raise money for Nathan Esch’s children 7 & 9 with goal to have enough money by the time they are 18 to pay for their college outright
Selling 1000 raffle tix
Need set up crew, generator, raffle ticket sellers

John Boylan
www.ArtsCorps.org
Art events
Bringing Lady Bee up to Seattle to talk about art of Burning Man
Slideshow/ Lecture
Youngstown Cultural Center
Monday April 16th 7-9pm
ArtsCorps Fundraiser April 21st- Randy spinning
$25 for drinks, food and rockin’ music

Angel Fraley
Chrome Toast this Saturday
Will be raffling one of her unique clothing creations
“Easy Access for on playa quickies”

Dan McComb
Biznik
June 9th BizJam
Business building marathon at Youngstown (am) and LRS (pm)
Hybrid unconference- some scheduled speakers
www.seattlebizjam.com

Miranda and Peggy
Community space on playa
Building a temple – healing arts, bodywork, movement
Fundraiser in May
http://thebodytemple.info

Lisa Jones
www.stepitupseattle.org
Step It Up 2007- Bill McKibbin
April 14th National Event- reduce greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050
March from Occidental Park to Myrtle Edwards

Corprew-
Rangering
Volunteers for upcoming events
info@nwrangers.org
or go to burning man website for on-playa ranger information
rangers@burningman.com
Critical Massive 

www.massiveburn.org
June 25th – July 1st
We have a space. Thanks Diem!
Erin kicked ass
Registration for theme camps will be on website
Diem- Volunteer Coordinator

Heather-
Art funding process for CM
Giving away money
Submit your proposal
Include Cover letter, proposal, budget
Deadline April 1st
Art grant committee- headed by Michelle Bates
Contact a board member for info or help with your art grant

“Bitter” Sweet Chris Bell
Flight to Mars to sponsor 3rd Saturdays at the CHAC
And
Save the Date
Flight to Mars Prom June 16th
Burn Night Returns to Capitol Hill 

Back at the CHAC!!!
Monday Night
Drink Specials- oooh, aaaah…
Thanks “Bitter” Sweet Chris Bell!

Space-

No dedicated space in the Pacific NW for burners to congregate
Developing burner-centric space in Greater Seattle Metropolitan area
Goal- own a space in 3-5 years
Looking for people with real estate, mortgage experience- if you have that or are interested in helping contact brian@ignitionnw.org

 No Sleep Till Burien – Launch Pad
Dane Johnson –member of the Burien Arts Council
City of Burien- bought 4 city blocks to develop new civic center w/ park and high density housing
AND
Includes permanent location for temporary (6-9 months) art – “Art Pad”
How to exhibit stored big burner art in Pacific NW
BRAF and City of Burien supported
Developing proposal for rotating “public safe pieces”
From public display in SF to public display in ….Burien
Take that Olympic Sculpture Garden!

Regionals’ Conference- Recap     

Kay, Diem & JackAss (everyone’s favorite jaded ex-participant)
Diem- go out to other regional events- share ideals and ideas of art, meet others!

JackAss- Interacting with other communities in their various developmental stages, What are other communities doing? Looking at where we are as a community and where we’ve been.
Regionals offer a chance to look at our community from the outside and find out what other communities are saying about us.

“Greening the Burn” - how to have less of an effect on the environment w/o changing the outcome of the event
Greening Committee lead for Critical Massive
Recap of Temple Project & community support of survivors- We rose to David Best’s challenge and did a lot of good for the community
Thanks Amani and Stuart!
Burners without Borders-Beyond the Trash Fence 

Carmen Mauk of BMIR radio
“Common problems, uncommon solutions”
Community Service
Katrina, Biloxi, Mississippi and beyond
Fire Pits at Ocean Beach on front page of SF Chronicle http://tinyurl.com/yrq8lh
Downspouts in Chicago
Shipping containers on ranch in Gerlach full of “Infrastructure” consisting of found objects from Katrina- community resource that is available in event of disaster
Expanding the Burning Man ethos
Black Rock Commons website- multi media website and year round radio station, want to give Seattle 4 hours/week of on-air programming
Good Night & Good Luck 

Thanks from kay and the rest of the gang.