Board

A room for Stimpunks Board Members to meet.

The board

Ryan Boren, President, Co-Founder, Co-Creative Director
Betsy Selvam, Vice President
Kristina Brooke Daniele, Secretary
Becky Hicks, Board Member

As our Board & Governance page lists them, in its order and with its titles, read on 2026-09-29. Each name goes to their own section of our About page.

The board oversees the organisation’s mission, its money and its direction, and the people who run the work day to day are not voting members of it; our Board & Governance page says so, and says what the board oversees.

The meeting

The draft agenda for Tuesday 29 September 2026 · Quarterly meeting (rescheduled from summer).

Decisions required

Approve the minutes of the 24 March 2026 meeting
Resolve to terminate private foundation status under IRC §507(b)(1)(B) and authorize the Form 8940 filing
Resolve to adopt GAAP accrual accounting from FY2026
Adopt the revised Conflict of Interest Policy, superseding the 2022 policy
Adopt the revised Whistleblower Policy, superseding the 2022 policy
Adopt the annual Conflict of Interest Statement, and set the signing cycle
Resolve the bylaws conflict, and adopt the amended v2 text (§2.1 family qualification removed) if that version governs
Adopt the Document Retention & Destruction Policy, superseding the 2022 policy
Adopt the revised Gift Acceptance Policy
Elect a Treasurer, and decide whether they also join the Board as a director
Extend indemnification to volunteers under Article V §5.7, so our unpaid Co-Creative Directors are covered

Everything else is discussion or reporting.

Order of business

1. Opening — 5 min
2. Financial position — 25 min
3. Public charity conversion — 30 min
4. Bylaws — 25 min
5. Governance policies — 30 min
6. Officers — 15 min
7. Compensation review — 15 min
8. Reporting — 10 min
8a. One conflict the retention policy surfaced — 5 min
9. Closing — 5 min

We will break for ten minutes at the halfway point. Cameras optional. Ask for anything you need.

If you cannot be in the room, join by phone or video: under bylaws §2.5, taking part where everyone can hear each other counts as presence in person, for quorum and for voting.

This is the outline of the agenda. The papers behind it go to the board.

Governance & Ethics

Clear governance, transparent leadership, and documented organizational structure are essential to accountability. The following pages provide essential information about our legal status, board composition, financial oversight, and institutional policies.

Accountability starts with governance, oversight, and clear ethical commitments.

Frequently Requested Information — Legal status, EIN, board and staff composition, funding overview, and core organizational facts.
Bylaws — The rules that govern how we are run, published in full. The version shown is the one proposed for adoption at our September 2026 board meeting, with the family qualification for directors removed from §2.1.
Board Roles & Responsibilities — What we ask of a director, what we deliberately do not ask — no give-or-get, no travel, no performing wellness — what each officer does, and what the Foundation owes its board in return.
Conflict of Interest Policy
Gift Acceptance Policy
Whistleblower & Concern Reporting Policy
Document Retention & Destruction Policy
Board & Governance
Transparency Log
Community Covenant

Governance is not bureaucracy. Governance is how we keep the commons safe and durable.

Our governance model is grounded in lived experience leadership and epistemic justice, ensuring decision-making reflects the communities most impacted by the systems we seek to redesign.

This section is our Accountability & Transparency page’s, word for word, read on 2026-09-29.

Talking

The channel and the call in here are for the base: people signed on at the Community Center with the moderators’ password. Anybody can come in and look around, and the radio waits outside the door for everybody else.

The call is run by 8x8’s Jitsi as a Service, and the server hands a pass into it to the base and nobody else. Camera and microphone start off, and we keep nothing about a call. What goes where.

Why a lamp at every seat

Because a board is a table where every seat counts the same. There is no light over the head of the table and no bigger lamp for anybody: the same small lamp, the same pool, at every place, down both sides. The room is dark around them, and what is said under them stays in the room. Nothing in here moves, at any setting.

Whose words

The room’s line is Ryan’s, from his brief for the Town Hall. Who is on the board, and their titles, are read off our Board & Governance page on stimpunks.org, and each name goes to their section of our About page, which is where to read about them. DM Serif Display is Colophon Foundry’s and Source Sans 3 is Paul D. Hunt’s, both under the SIL Open Font License; the room is ours. More in the liner notes.

Job marker — a pencil, rolled off the table

You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.

The job: Whose lamp is biggest

Before the code: What does every seat at the Board's table have in front of it?

Hint 1

There is no light over the head of the table.

Hint 2

Look at the drawing, down both sides.

Last hint

It is small and shaded, and it is the same at every seat.

Give me the answer

The answer is The same lamp. Every seat has the same small shaded lamp and the same pool of light in front of it, down both sides, and nobody's lamp is bigger: a board is a table where every seat counts the same.

Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.

Quest code: ONEVOTE

Hand it in at the Adventurer’s Guild →