20:01 < bdale> *GAVEL*
20:01 < Solver> great  Very important we're qrorate to get Xorg wrapped up.
20:01 < bdale> [item 1, Opening] Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest Board Meeting, which is now called to order.
20:01 < bdale> Today's agenda can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/agendas/2015/2015-01-08/
20:01 < bdale> [item 2, Roll Call]
20:01 < bdale> Board members, please state your name for the record.  As we have nine board members, quorum for today's meeting is six.
20:01 < schultmc> Michael Schultheiss
20:01 < glp> Gregers Petersen
20:01 < zobel> Martin Zobel-Helas
20:01 < bdale> Guests (including board advisors), please /msg your names to tbm if you wish your attendance to be recorded in the minutes of this meeting.
20:01 < Noodles> Jonathan McDowell
20:01 < tbm> Martin Michlmayr
20:01 < Solver> Robert Brockway
20:01 < bdale> Bdale Garbee
20:02 < zobel> Ganneff: ^
20:02 < bdale> cool, quorate
20:02 < zobel> shall i ping G over cell phone?
20:02 < bdale> sure, though we've got quorum even without him
20:03 < bdale> who else is missing?
20:03 < Noodles> linuxhiker.
20:03 < schultmc> linuxhiker
20:03 < bdale> oh, right
20:03 < bdale> ok, let's proceed .. perhaps they'll join us
20:03 < zobel> ping Ganneff
20:03 < zobel> pinged Ganneff
20:03 < bdale> [item 3, President's Report]
20:03 < bdale> I'm currently on my way to Linux Conf Australia, which will be held in Auckland, NZ, next week.  I hope to see SPI folk there and/or at FOSDEM at the end of the month!
20:03 < bdale> [item 4, Treasurer's Report]
20:03 < bdale> Michael?
20:04 < schultmc> I'm finishing up the November and December treasurer's reports and hope to have them mailed out in the next day or two. Apologies for the delay.
20:04 < bdale> ok
20:04 < bdale> anything else / pending?
20:04 < Ganneff> JOerg Jaspert
20:04 < zobel> any tax filings open?
20:04 < schultmc> finishing up some pending items for chakra
20:05 < zobel> Ganneff: yay.
20:05 < jberkus> bdale: I'd like some short-notice authorization to use an alternate payment method
20:05 < schultmc> next tax filing is due in may (or august)
20:05 < bdale> jberkus: for outbound payments?
20:05 < jberkus> bdale: correct.
20:05 < schultmc> yes, pre-meeting jberkus brought up the need for us to try additional services for outbound payments
20:05 < Solver> jberkus, as a trial?
20:05 < bdale> ok, sorry, was driving so haven't read backlog
20:06 < jberkus> I'll explain when we get to it on the agenda
20:06 < bdale> ok, noted
20:06 < bdale> schultmc: anything else?
20:06 < schultmc> not from me
20:06 < bdale> [item 5, Secretary's report]
20:06 < bdale> Martin?
20:06 < tbm> We started a vote by email regarding 2014.12.11.bg.2 on December 11.
20:06 < tbm> Votes by email require all board members to vote.
20:06 < tbm> I was under the impression that we lacked one vote.
20:06 < tbm> As it turns out, the vote was sent to me personally instead of the SPI Board list and I missed it
20:06 < tbm> In order to avoid confusion and to give X.Org 90 days from today's date to accept, I suggest we do a quick vote on resolution 2014.12.11.bg.2
20:07 < jberkus> bdale: I can take questions about the Tendenci/Stripe thing.  No vote is needed because this was authorized last year
20:07 < tbm> Apart from this, we have to approve the minutes from 13th November and 11th December.
20:07 < bdale> tbm: ok, that works for me
20:07 < bdale> [item 6, Outstanding minutes]
20:07 < tbm> http://spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/2014/2014-11-13/
20:07 < tbm> http://spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/2014/2014-12-11/
20:07 < bdale> go for it
20:07 < tbm> We we need a few minutes to read them or should I start the vote?
20:07 < bdale> I've read them and am ready to vote
20:07 < tbm> Ok
20:08  * Solver has read them
20:08 < Noodles> I'm good to vote.
20:08 < tbm> Voting started, 8 people (bdale,ganneff,tbm,schultmc,solver,noodles,glp,zobel) allowed to vote on Meeting minutes for Thursday 13th November 2014. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now.
20:08 < Noodles> !vote yes
20:08 < schultmc> !vote yes
20:08 < zobel> !vote yes
20:08 < tbm> !vote yes
20:08 < bdale> !vote yes
20:08 < Solver> !vote abstain
20:08 < Ganneff> !vote yes
20:08 < glp> !vote yes
20:08 < tbm> Current voting results for "Meeting minutes for Thursday 13th November 2014": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1, Missing: 0 ()
20:08 < tbm> Voting for "Meeting minutes for Thursday 13th November 2014" closed.
20:08 < tbm> Voting started, 8 people (bdale,ganneff,tbm,schultmc,solver,noodles,glp,zobel) allowed to vote on Meeting minutes for Thursday 11th December 2014. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now.
20:08 < Noodles> !vote yes
20:08 < glp> !vote yes
20:08 < tbm> !vote yes
20:08 < bdale> !vote yes
20:08 < Solver> !vote yes
20:08 < zobel> !vote abstain
20:08 < schultmc> !vote abstain
20:09 < Ganneff> !vote abstain
20:09 < tbm> Current voting results for "Meeting minutes for Thursday 11th December 2014": Yes: 5, No: 0, Abstain: 3, Missing: 0 ()
20:09 < tbm> Voting for "Meeting minutes for Thursday 11th December 2014" closed.
20:09 < bdale> thanks
20:09 < bdale> [item 7, Items up for discussion]
20:09 < bdale> [item 7.1, Resolution 2014.12.11.bg.2: X.Org as associated project]
20:09 < bdale> Unless further discussion is needed, I'm ready to vote.
20:09 < Noodles> Me too.
20:09 < tbm> Voting started, 8 people (bdale,ganneff,tbm,schultmc,solver,noodles,glp,zobel) allowed to vote on Approval of resolution 2014.12.11.bg.2. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now.
20:09 < Noodles> !vote yes
20:09 < tbm> !vote yes
20:09 < Ganneff> !vote yes
20:09 < zobel> !vote yes
20:09 < Solver> !vote yes
20:09 < schultmc> !vote yes
20:09 < glp> !vote yes
20:10 < bdale> !vote yes
20:10 < tbm> Current voting results for "Approval of resolution 2014.12.11.bg.2": Yes: 8, No: 0, Abstain: 0, Missing: 0 ()
20:10 < tbm> Voting for "Approval of resolution 2014.12.11.bg.2" closed.
20:10 < tbm> I'll inform X.Org
20:10 < bdale> awesome
20:10 < Noodles> \o/
20:10 < bdale> fyi, the reason they wanted 90 days is that they have to have a general vote now before they can accept
20:10 < bdale> [item 8, Any other business]
20:10 < bdale> Do any board members present have items for discussion they would like to address briefly?
20:10 < bdale> jberkus?
20:11 < jberkus> bdale: the payment method?  OK
20:11 < bdale> might as well, as long as it doesn't run too long
20:11 < jberkus> so, here's the situation: I've been trying to pay out to some of the GSOC participants for a month.  The problem participants are located in Brazil, China, and India
20:11 < bdale> ah, ok
20:11 < jberkus> Wire transfers to these countries work poorly
20:12 < bdale> I've seen your thread on the foundations list about this
20:12 < bdale> s/your/the/
20:12 < jberkus> Payoneer.com was recommeded on the Foundations list, and by a brazillian OSS developer I know
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20:13 < jberkus> I would like to try siging up for it and at least compensate the Brazillian; we could then expand use if we find the service useful.
20:13 < bdale> so I don't see any problem with trying an alternate payment mechanism .. is there some reason to believe this needs board action or my explicit authorization?
20:13 < jberkus> bdale: I don't belive the treasurer has blanket authorization to sign up for new payment methods
20:13 < bdale> ok
20:14 < jberkus> I'm not sure that would be a good idea, frankly
20:14 < bdale> fair enough
20:14 < bdale> ok, so I'm willing to give my permission .. would a vote by the board seem in order?  if so, make a resolution.
20:15 < bdale> s/make/propose/
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20:16 < jberkus> resolved: that the treasurer be authorized to sign up for payment services via payoneer.com
20:16 < bdale> any further discussion?
20:16 < bdale> tbm: please call the vote
20:17 < tbm> Voting started, 9 people (bdale,ganneff,tbm,schultmc,solver,linuxhiker,noodles,glp,zobel) allowed to vote on that the treasurer be authorized to sign up for payment services via payoneer.com. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now.
20:17 < bdale> !vote yes
20:17 < tbm> !vote yes
20:17 < schultmc> !vote yes
20:17 < Solver> !vote yes
20:17 < Noodles> !vote yes
20:17 < Ganneff> !vote yes
20:17 < glp> !vote yes
20:17 < tbm> zobel?
20:18 < tbm> Current voting results for "that the treasurer be authorized to sign up for payment services via payoneer.com": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 0, Missing: 2 ( linuxhiker  zobel )
20:18 < tbm> Voting for "that the treasurer be authorized to sign up for payment services via payoneer.com" closed.
20:18 < tbm> Note that linuxhiker is no there, so only 8 people were allowed to vote.
20:18 < bdale> ok, thanks all.  any other new business?
20:19 < bdale> [item 9, Next board meeting]
20:19 < bdale> Our next regularly-scheduled monthly meeting would be 12 February 2015, 20:00 UTC.
20:19 < bdale> Any strong objections?
20:19 < bdale> looks ok to me
20:19 < jberkus> btw, I'll hang out here if anyone wants to discuss Tendency/Stripe.com
20:19 < jberkus> that's authorized already though, so no vote required
20:19 < bdale> right
20:19  * Ganneff has trouble being on time for 20UTC
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20:20 < jberkus> if we've got IT vols here, I'd like to ask some setup questions
20:20 < bdale> jberkus: post-meeting, please
20:20 < jberkus> yah
20:20 < bdale> Ganneff: bad enough trouble to want to consider a time change?
20:21 < Ganneff> half an hour later would be great for me. (thats for about ever).
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20:21 < Ganneff> bdale: not sure what it means for others. if its not too hard to change...
20:21 < bdale> would that be bad for anyone else?
20:21 < Solver> No issue here
20:21 < schultmc> works for me
20:21 < glp> not a problem for me
20:21 < Noodles> 8:30 UTC works for me ok.
20:21 < bdale> ok .. let's try 12 Feb 2015 20:30 then
20:21 < tbm> ok
20:22 < Ganneff> thanks
20:22 < bdale> tbm: please update the calendar to reflect 20:30 as our routine start time until further notice
20:22 < bdale> Ok, thank you to everyone present for participating today.
20:22 < bdale> *GAVEL*