Board meeting, December 19th, 2006
Board members present
- Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (Vice President)
- Neil McGovern (Maulkin) (Secretary)
- Josh Berkus (jberkus) (Treasurer)
- Ian Jackson (Diziet)
- David Graham (cdlu)
- Jimmy Kaplowitz (Hydroxide)
Board members partially present
- None
Board members absent with regrets
- Martin Schulze (Joey)
- Bdale Garbee (bdale) (President)
- Branden Robinson (Overfiend)
Board members absent
- None
Board advisors present
- Robert Treat - PostgreSQL (xzilla)
Registered guests present
- Luk Clas (luk)
- Joshua Drake (linuxpoet)
- John Goerzen (CosmicRay)
- Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff)
- Rico Gloeckner (mc)
- Kaare Thor Olsen (Kaare)
- Thijs Kinkhorst (kink)
- Bill Allombert (yp17)
- Moray Allan (moray)
- Greg Sabino Mullane (G_SabinoMullane)
- MJ Ray (slef)
These are the draft minutes for the December 19th, 2006 SPI Board meeting, held at 19:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG
President's Report
None received
Treasurer's Report
Current Status: LedgerSMB 1.2 has been set up on the new treasurer server. However, I still need to set it up for the new chart of accounts (which requires writing some new stored procedures) and enter some sample transactions so that other people can help me get caught up for 2006. Unfortunately, the holidays, conference travel, and re-organization frenzy at Sun (I have a new boss) have prevented me from completing this. Raw figures from the month of November are: $150 in expenses (PostgreSQL) No deposits were made in November. This indicates that there is still an obstacle to getting deposits made in timely fashion, as we certainly received donations in November. I hereby request that the assistant Treasurer make recommendations on how practically we can get all donations deposited on at least a bi-weekly (if not a weekly) basis.
Concerns were also raised that Branden has not been making bank deposits, so Josh may be making a proposal to change banks. This is to be discussed later via email.
Outstanding Minutes
Current status: November 21st 2006 minutes have been raised for approval of the board.
Motion to accept the November 21st minutes, moved by David Graham, seconded by Neil McGovern.
Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Neil McGovern | Yes |
Josh Berkus | Abstain |
Ian Jackson | Yes |
David Graham | Yes |
Jimmy Kaplowitz | Abstain |
Motion passes with a vote of Yes: 4, No: 0, Abstain: 2.
Resolution 2006-04-03.jfsp.1: Debian trademark in Spain
No further progress has been reported on this issue. Bdale Garbee and Ian Jackson are to follow up with Greg Pomerantz.
Resolution 2006-11-18.dbg.mjs.1: Open Source Initiative Domain
Motion to accept Resolution 2006-11-18.dbg.mjs.1, moved by David Graham, seconded by Neil McGovern.
Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Neil McGovern | Yes |
Josh Berkus | Abstain |
Ian Jackson | No |
David Graham | Yes |
Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
Motion passes with a vote of Yes: 4, No: 1, Abstain: 1.
Items from the DPL
Items 1-3 on this are pending Bdale's discussion with Greg. Items 4 and 5 are awaiting data entry on the accounting system, and are being worked on.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 19:00 UTC.
Appendix A: Current Board Membership
Date elected | Name | Role |
---|---|---|
[2004-07-29] | Bdale Garbee | President |
[2006-07-31] | Michael Schultheiss | Vice President |
[2006-07-31] | Neil McGovern | Secretary |
[2006-07-31] | Josh Berkus | Treasurer |
[2004-07-29] | Branden Robinson | |
[2004-02-20] | Jimmy Kaplowitz | |
[2003-11-29] | David Graham | |
[2003-11-29] | Ian Jackson | |
[2003-11-29] | Martin "Joey" Schulze |
Appendix B: Approved Resolutions
Resolution 2006-11-18.dbg.mjs.1: Open Source Initiative domain
Appendix C: Outstanding Items from the DPL
1) Response to concerns related to the acceptance of Sun Java into non-free, see: From: John Goerzen Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:28:22 -0500 Subject: Questions about Java license and related questions Message-ID: <20060607232822.GA31686@katherina.lan.complete.org> 2) Response to concerns related to interaction between Debian developers and citizens of embargoed countries, see: From: Anthony Towns Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:47:49 +1000 Subject: Debian in embargoed countries Message-ID: <20060609074749.GB1408@azure.humbug.org.au> 3) Response to concerns related to online harassment, see: From: Steve Langasek Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:04:51 -0700 Subject: request for assistance with ongoing harassment [debianwomenpassaway@yahoo.com: Debian women: please pass away.] Message-ID: <20060610000450.GN13192@mauritius.dodds.net> 4) Precise accounting of funds held for the benefit of the Debian project (my imprecise estimate is $0, split between -$50,000 for debconf, and +$50,000 for misc debian use, which will obviously only be useful when the HP money makes its way in) 5) Is there any sort of online/electronic report of donations from Click & Pledge that can be made available?