# 2023-02 CTA Board Meeting Minutes - **Date:** 2022-02-02 - **Participants:** - Micah Redding (Executive Director) - Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (Secretary) - Lincoln Cannon - Omar Reyes - Caleb Strom - Mark Russell - **Absent:** - Emily Hogan Redding (Treasurer) - Jonathan Gunnell - Elias Kruger - Martha Barcarum - Mackenzie Fisher - **Agenda** 1. Reports 1. [Executive Director reports] 1. [normal reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership) 2. [specific](https://hackmd.io/@christian-transhumanism/rJvO2Jc3i) 3. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer) 2. Existing Business - CTA Course (Jonathan & Micah) - 39 people participated + more asked to come - lots of interest in keeping the conversation going - "Space exploration > space colonization" was one of the pieces of feedback - Should we re-center "super-abundance" as a concept? - related to uplifting the poor - Caleb clarifies that we shouldn't get confused with Prosperity Gospel - Secular transhumanists anticipate an era of tech-enabled abudance - Lorenzo asks how the CTA team can make it easier for Micah and Jonathan to work on this kind of initiative - how to reach out to more people with this content? - Caleb talks about distinguishing ourselves from De-growthers - Ex. Revive&Restore(https://reviverestore.org) is about using biotech to revitalize - [ ] CTA Website - Refining Missions - Refining Press page - [ ] CTA & EACH? (Lorenzo) - Monthly call? - Simulation presentation? - [ ] CTA Course? - Caleb working on a Christian Transhumanist Confession - https://www.notion.so/Curriculum-Contents-01b0ce3c8a064fdfa912959a379650eb - [ ] CTA Conference? - [ ] CTA Tiktok? (Mark) - Ideas for DALLE-2 generation - Martha offers 'cool' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRRGsNyp7gU&feature=youtu.be - [ ] Martha ask if we are registered here: https://causes.benevity.org/ 4. New business? - Lorenzo would like to invite Thomas Kelly, the founder of Kidney Donations (https://eachdiscussion.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/donating-a-kidney/) - The idea is to broadcast his message so that more people can exposed to this opportunity - Lorenzo asks Lincoln if MTA memebers would be interested - Lincoln suggests stronger partnerships are possible - Carl + Micah meet monthly - Lincoln picks up the responsibility to faciliate this kind of partnership - There are other religious transhumanist orgs we can also partner with - in March, there are Board Elections - Micah, Lorenzo, and Omar are up for re-election - Micah questions whether board elections should be as public facing as they've been in the past, like Biologos - The board's focus shouldn't be on the political negotiations for re-election but rather on generative acts such as buildings projects - **References:** 1. [Board Dashboard](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board/blob/main/board.md) 2. Records & [Board Minutes](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board) 1. [Minutes in Github](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board) 2. [Minutes in Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7GmjSbYZdUdZHlmYzZkS0VYOUE) 3. [Email discussions](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/board-of-the-cta) 3. [Bylaws](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/bylaws) 4. Reports 1. [Executive Director reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership) 2. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer) 5. Communication & Events 1. [CTA Events Calendar](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/calendar) 2. [Google Hangouts](https://meet.google.com/vbv-ztvv-icw) (defunct) 3. [Zoom Meeting (current)](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/zoom) 6. Wiki & Content 1. View: [wiki.christiantranshumanism.org](https://wiki.christiantranshumanism.org) 2. Edit: [wiki @ Roam](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/christiantranshumanism)