Board Annual Goals - 2025

Marketing

    • Complete charter of committee

    • Showcase organization at the 14th Philadelphia Bike Exposition with a booth and seminar

    • Grow the committee with addition of 2-3 more members

    • Identify and act on additional national marketing initiatives

    • Develop a yearly marketing budget

    • Work with web team on making revision to the mainpage photo in the background

    Rules and Procedures

    Continue to review and update all rules, procedures, documentation for organizers and riders, for all types of rides (Brevets and Populaires, Team Events, UAF Audax and Permanents)

    • RBA Procedures: Complete and publish major updates (except for Audax and Waiver, which depend on outside groups)

    • Move the time calculation documentation from Rules for Organizers to its own page

    • Audax Rules for Organizers and Riders: Work with the Audax Committee on developing these rules

    • Team Event Rules: Work with the Team Events Committee on updates 

    • Permanent Rules: Review for any updates 

    Internal Organization

    • Continue work on charter and staffing of all committees

    • Initial focus on Awards Review and Marketing

    • Ongoing review of operational activities calendar developed in 2024

    • Coordinate and showcase our diverse community in American Randonneur, Between Controls and all social media and communications

    Event Registration Support and Insurance

    • Continue to encourage collaboration among regions for sharing of tools

    • Continue migration to Smartwaiver

    Awards

    • Physical Gravel Award

    • Update and distribute 2025 volunteer patches

    • Implement a Climbing Award

    Gender

    • Complete review of Gender survey

    • Make decision on gender categories and display

    • Communicate to membership

    Website

    • Cumulative Climbing: Continue rollout work, including support for Alaska and point-to-point routes

    • Authentication-Required Functions: Move certain functions behind user logins (e.g., joining / changing membership, calendaring events and submitting results, viewing volunteer contact info) for security and privacy

    • Gender Designation, Aggregation, and Display: Implement Board’s policy, when it is finalized, on member’s gender options, and for where gender is displayed

    • Improve membership signup, renewal and data change:

      • Renew perm program registration and membership at the same time

      • Process payment immediately even if an address update is requested

      • Streamline new membership signup/renewal for further in-person marketing initiatives

    • Complete Time Calculation Algorithms:  Publish on a common web page. Requires coordination with third parties

    • Server upgrade - Upgrade production to newer versions of Debian, Drupal, and PHP