HIGHLIGHTS <Ganneff> Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/2008/2008-06-18.html
[item 2, Roll Call] <cdlu> David Graham <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert <schultmc> Michael Schultheiss <zobel> Martin Zobel-Helas <luk> Luk Claes <linuxpoet> JOshua Drake [item 3, President's Report] <Ganneff> None. [item 4, Treasurer's Report] <schultmc> I don't have a specific report prepared. I plan on releasing regular reports starting next meeting. By the end of June, I expect to have PaySimple setup and ready to accept donations [item 5, Secretary's report] <Ganneff> well. without neil... that also is for the next point [item 7, Stuff for discussion] <cdlu> Elections are July 1-July 29 [item 8, Next board meeting] <Ganneff> Tuesday, 1th July 2008 - 19:00 UTC <cdlu> Annual General Meeting <Ganneff> so lets say - AGM on July, 2nd, which is a Wednesday. If someone disagrees to much - board@ mail <zobel> are still all machines locked? <Ganneff> zobel: this week TIMED LOG (+01:00) 20:00:04 <Ganneff> *GAVEL* 20:00:05 <Ganneff> [item 1, Opening] Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/2008/2008-06-18.html 20:00:05 <Ganneff> [item 2, Roll Call] 20:00:05 <Ganneff> Board members, please state your name for the record. As we have nine board members, quorum for today's meeting is six. Guests, please /msg your names to Maulkin if you wish your attendance to be recorded in the minutes of this meeting. 20:00:06 <Ganneff> Neil, please update us on known and tentative regrets. 20:00:09 <cdlu> David Graham 20:00:14 <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert 20:00:17 <schultmc> Michael Schultheiss 20:00:20 <cdlu> Neil is one of the regrets... he said he'd be late. 20:00:25 <cdlu> Bdale regrets too 20:00:28 <cdlu> haven't seen any others 20:01:17 <Ganneff> zobel, luk, linuxpoet, schultmc, schultmc_, Maulkin, zobel, Hydroxide 20:01:27 <cdlu> zobel, zobel, zobel. :) 20:01:31 <zobel> Martin Zobel-Helas 20:01:33 <schultmc> Ganneff: I already said "Michael Schultheiss" 20:01:36 <luk> Luk Claes 20:01:39 <Ganneff> oh. missed you. 20:01:46 <linuxpoet> :) 20:01:49 <cdlu> 5... one more for quorum. 20:01:49 <linuxpoet> JOshua Drake 20:01:52 <cdlu> quorum! 20:02:01 <Ganneff> damn. :) 20:02:05 <Ganneff> ok. lets go on 20:02:06 <cdlu> I knew you were going to say that. 20:02:08 <Ganneff> [item 3, President's Report] 20:02:08 <Ganneff> None. 20:02:08 <Ganneff> [item 4, Treasurer's Report] 20:02:09 <Ganneff> schultmc: have fun 20:02:40 <schultmc> I don't have a specific report prepared. I plan on releasing regular reports starting next meeting. 20:02:59 <schultmc> By the end of June, I expect to have PaySimple setup and ready to accept donations 20:03:05 <schultmc> </end> 20:03:12 <Ganneff> [item 5, Secretary's report] 20:03:16 <Ganneff> well. without neil... 20:03:30 <cdlu> same applies to minutes 20:03:35 <Ganneff> that also is for the next point 20:03:51 <Ganneff> [item 7, Stuff for discussion] 20:03:51 <Ganneff> None according to Agenda 20:04:04 <schultmc> elections are july 1 iirc 20:04:10 <jello> um, when does the annualy report come out? 20:04:14 <jello> er, annual 20:04:21 <cdlu> Elections are July 1-July 29 20:04:22 <luk> when it's ready 20:04:29 <cdlu> annual meeting is July 1 20:04:34 <Ganneff> [item 8, Next board meeting] 20:04:34 <Ganneff> Wednesday, 16th July 2008 - 19:00 UTC 20:04:34 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed topic of #spi to: All machines locked | Wednesday, 16th July 2008 - 19:00 UTC | That's 12:00 PDT, 15:00 EDT, 20:00 BST, and 21:00 CEST | http://www.spi-inc.org/ 20:04:40 <Ganneff> that would be next regular board meeting 20:04:48 <cdlu> Ganneff, next board meeting should be July 1 20:04:54 <cdlu> which is a Tuesday 20:05:16 <Ganneff> taken from agenda, but i agree to change. i just wont (most possibly) be available, its right after surgery for me 20:05:32 <zobel> Ganneff: hu... i might be in Darmstadt that evening probably to fix stuff at man.da but well 20:06:03 <Ganneff> Tuesday, 1th July 2008 - 19:00 UTC - annual board meeting. right? 20:06:21 <cdlu> Annual General Meeting 20:06:27 <Ganneff> unless we decide to move it a day or so. that would fit our wednesday == meeting day. 20:06:36 <luk> ah that's what the AGM stands for :-) 20:06:48 <cdlu> I wouldn't object to moving it to Wednesday July 2 20:07:08 * zobel either 20:07:10 <Ganneff> can we vote on that? 20:07:20 <Ganneff> i know i wont be there on 1st, but can on second 20:07:21 <luk> is anyone against? 20:07:28 <cdlu> you're the chair, we can vote on the colour of the sky if you say to 20:07:34 * schultmc is available either day 20:07:54 <luk> cdlu: shouldn't things to vote be on the agenda? 20:08:21 <cdlu> luk, we've voted on many things that were not on the agenda in the past. But I don't see a need to vote on July 2 annual meeting. 20:08:31 <slef> http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/by-laws specifies the first day of July in Article Four. IIRC it's usually a PITA but unchangeable. 20:08:56 <dondelelcaro> the second will still be the first in some timezone, done properly. 20:09:42 <cdlu> slef, it also may be deferred by members of the board in the event of a holiday 20:09:46 <cdlu> it's Canada Day on the 1st :) 20:09:50 <luk> I guess we can be out of quorum the first and move it to the second without any problem :-) 20:10:18 <luk> cldu: even better, lets all celebrate that official holiday :-) 20:10:36 <cdlu> but if we're in immediate jeopardy of not making quorum at annual meeting, we can all save ourselves a lot of headache by scheduling it for the 2nd. 20:11:37 <luk> cdlu: isn't Canada Day a legal holiday? 20:11:40 <Ganneff> I think it makes most sense to have it on second. The bylaws should be written better there to allow a move for any (valid/good) reason, not only some random holidays, if that doesnt mean a move to $waytofaraway. 20:11:47 <cdlu> it is in Canada, but SPI is a US corp 20:12:01 <Ganneff> cdlu: but spi has .ca board members. 20:12:08 <cdlu> singular 20:12:30 <luk> singular is enough to have some .ca board members :-) 20:12:35 <cdlu> true :) 20:12:35 <cdlu> ok 20:12:42 <Ganneff> so lets say - AGM on July, 2nd, which is a Wednesday. If someone disagrees to much - board@ mail 20:12:43 <cdlu> Ganneff, I suggest you dispense with this and decree it. :) 20:12:55 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed topic of #spi to: All machines locked | Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 - 19:00 UTC | That's 12:00 PDT, 15:00 EDT, 20:00 BST, and 21:00 CEST | http://www.spi-inc.org/ 20:13:02 <Ganneff> there. 20:13:10 <Ganneff> now, did Maulkin show up? if not we are done. 20:13:20 <cdlu> nope, but he did say by email 20:13:22 <zobel> Ganneff: one more question: 20:13:28 <cdlu> that he would be sending out information about the election soon 20:13:29 <zobel> status of the machines 20:13:38 <Ganneff> zobel: this week 20:13:41 <zobel> are still all machines locked? 20:13:42 <zobel> k. 20:13:53 <Ganneff> *GAVEL* -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
