Thursday, July 30, 2009

One meeting down, one to go

I met with Mario, the president of the artisan's association, this morning. We've decided to limit today's general meeting to presenting and discussing the proposed structure. Our goal is get the members to approve the structure and send them home with task of selecting potential officers in preparation for an election at next week's meeting.

Currently the associations structure consists of a president and a board of directors, but other than the president, treasurer, secretary and policeman, the roles are very loosely defined. We're asking them to elect 11 more positions:
  • Sales Director (Director de Ventas)
  • Purchaser (Comprador)
  • City Representative (Municipalidad)
  • Director of Education (Director de Educacion)
  • 4 Sales Managers (Gerentes de Ventas) - one for each sales channel: the physical market, tradeshows/fairs, wholesalers, internet
  • 3 VP's (subpresidentes) - one for each category of crafts: knits, ceramics, jewelry
Here's the proposed structure:
Right now, I've got to get busy preparing the presentation on papelotes (big sheets of paper); not surprisingly, there's no projector at the mercado for the extensive PowerPoint presentation.

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