LOPSA News

The 2024 LOPSA Board Election is coming up in December. This year voting will open on December 2nd and close on December 30th.

We are currently seeking candidates for this election. Any member can nominate a candidate, including themselves, provided the nominee meets the eligibility criteria.

To clarify, an "eligible member" is a non-student-level member who has kept their membership active and in good standing since the last Board election in December of last year.

If you or someone you know meets these criteria and is interested in running for a seat on the Board, we’d love to hear from you. Please send an email to board@lopsa.org by 6PM Pacific Time on November 29, 2024, to declare your intent to run.

Tonight we investigated an issue our transcription service was having when retrieving Zoom meeting recordings. We also approved meeting minutes from our transcription service.

At tonight's community meeting, we continued correspondence with member chapter leadership and service providers. We removed a broken link to the Mentorship program from the home page, we plan on restoring it when the program is brought back online.

At our next meeting, we plan on discussing our working session progress and accomplishments over the past few months. If you are interested in joining that discussion or have feedback, please reach out to board@lopsa.org and we will ensure you can participate.

Tonight we continued our theme of previous working sessions--communicating with chapter leaders and service providers.

Tonight we had a session that was mostly housekeeping, reaching out to chapter leaders, vendors, and administrative support. These communications will require some followup, so we expect to see more of this in the next few meetings.

As always, stay tuned for LOPSA updates!

Tonight we followed up with chapter leaders and our meeting minute transcription service.

This evening we explored calendar automation for syndicating our Knoxville chapter's events. We're hoping to help our most active chapter broaden their reach.

Also approved some board meeting minutes and reached out to our transcriber for an invoice for her services and to inquire about continued meeting minute transcription.

Tonight, the LOPSA Board met again for our usual Working Session meeting. We added a new Members-only page for Chapter Support on LOPSA.org. And we reached out to LOPSA Chapter leaders to syndicate their future event details on our events calendar on LOPSA.org. We look forward to meeting again soon, and working on more LOPSA.org changes.

Hello all!

We continue our work cleaning up the LOPSA website. We followed up on a ticket with our hosting provider regarding an issue with our Past Sponsors widgets, clarified language around making donations versus becoming a member on our donations page, and commented out a widget for sponsor ads (we are not currently sponsored but if interested check out Become a Sponsor!

We look forward to seeing you and providing more updates in the future.

In an effort to improve transparency, we wanted to provide our members and the community with some updates from our working sessions. These blurbs, while not all encompassing, exist to provide you all with more information about our weekly sessions and any results.

In our meeting, we hid Mentorship pages because our mentorship program is currently inactive pending refactor and relaunch. We Cleaned up Our Sponsors page by removing old corporate sponsors. Tidied language about becoming a corporate sponsor and included a link to our sponsorship page. Moved individual sponsors up the page. Put in a support ticket for Past Donors gadget which now only shows 1 not all 6 people.

Some future work might include:

• Following up on support ticket for misbehaving gadget
• Cleaning up Sponsor ads carousel
• Checking our Donate page and deciding should we clarify “this is for tax deductible donations not becoming a member"

If you're interested in any of those topics, or you have ideas about what we could work on or improve, please join our Working Sessions and help us build a better LOPSA.

We look forward to seeing you and providing more updates in the future!