Bottom Line My name is Scott. I am the volunteer Executive Director for The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation. In our last complete Board Meeting, when we last had a quorum on 12-22-07, I stated that our ecycling initiatives either needed to become self-sustaining or that we needed to phase them out. I stated my plans for doing so and the fact that we had an abundance of P4 computers in storage costing me money. We all agreed on the plans. Two members left the board after this meeting due to life circumstances, leaving us without a quorum. Two of the three remaining members will not release the minutes from this meeting. They have threatened to sue me if I release the audio. In this meeting I state that we must end ecycling or make it work. Yet, you, the public, do not know this. Instead, all you are hearing is one Board member claiming that he alone is championing this change and is having to fight me to do it. There will be another Membership meeting in May, and this will be the opportunity to support the future of HOSEF or to help put it to rest. Either is fine. What is not fine is keeping the meeting minutes of HOSEF from the public, then misrepresenting the minutes and the organization to the public in order to slander, libel, and attempt to destroy a human being. This should be banned from LUAU as it has been banned from the HOSEF mailing lists. It is unconscionable.
My quote from 12-22 "long story short, trying to really focus more on the "efficient promotion and outreach and a little less of the moving of mass quantities of hardware, yet not letting, you know, I don't wanna to lose out on the good things, you know, the P4s, and, like from the castle foundation, 3 three flat screen monitors and the P4s and those type things. but by not taking everybody's castoffs, um, we've really kind of, and I'll know better in 2 weeks after XXX and I get done inventorying but we've got a nice, manageable, very desirable collection of hardware. an If we keep it that way, cash flow positive, then I can do more computer guts for people, I think I can do more parks, and I think that XXX can help more of the DVR and homeless people through his own endeavors and all being cash flow positive, plus selling some services on the side, some of these checks ron talked about were for some support contracts we sold to schools who weren't willing to take me up for my free Saturday offers of help but were willing to write checks. So, I think thats the big picture looking back and looking forward and trying to be a little leaner and another statement from me 36:55 Scott - I agree with Ron though and by design I have put us on the edge so that starting now I can put up or shut up with storage stuff, otherwise we just kill it and rethink everything. that we don't want to be obligated to something we can't pay for, so The complete Draft minutes are on the hosef-managers mailing list at lists.hosef.org --scott _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org