Board meeting, December 17th, 2008
Board members present
- Bdale Garbee (bdale) (President)
- Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff) (Vice President)
- Michael Schultheiss (Treasurer)
- Luk Claes (luk_)
- Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
- David Graham (cdlu)
Board members partially present
- None
Board members absent with regrets
- Jimmy Kaplowitz (Hydroxide) (Secretary)
- Neil McGovern (Maulkin)
Board members absent
- Joshua D. Drake (linuxpoet)
Board advisors present
- None
Registered guests present
- Not recorded
These are the draft minutes for the December 17th, 2008 SPI Board meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG
President's Report
There was no President's report.
Treasurer's Report
Michael Schultheiss provided the following report.
This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).
Income Statement
for the Period November 01, 2008 - November 30, 2008
Income
Ordinary Income
Debian 6,741.03
Freedesktop.org 10.00
Gallery 160.00
Madwifi.org 90.00
OpenOffice.org 5.26
PostgreSQL 850.26
SPI General 399.00
SPI 5% 140.31
Total Ordinary Income 8,395.86
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Interest Income
Key Bank Money Mkt Savings 98.54
Total Interest Income 98.54
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Gross Income 8,494.40
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Expenses
Ordinary Expenses
Debian
Processing Fees 17.57
SPI 5% 86.17
Total Debian Exp 103.74
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Freedesktop.org
Equipment 1,319.97
Processing Fees 0.40
SPI 5% 0.48
Total FDO Exp 1,320.85
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Gallery
Processing Fees 4.84
SPI 5% 7.76
Total Gallery Exp 12.60
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GNOME
Transfer to GNOME Found 20.00
Total GNOME Exp 20.00
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Madwifi.org
Processing Fees 3.60
SPI 5% 4.32
Total Madwifi.org Exp 7.92
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OpenOffice.org
Processing Fees 0.21
SPI 5% 0.25
Total OpenOffice.org Exp 0.46
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PostgreSQL
Processing Fees 23.79
SPI 5% 41.32
Travel Reimbursement 1,873.20
Total PostgreSQL Exp 1,938.31
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SPI
PaySimple Monthly Fee 29.95
Office Supplies 20.32
Postage 18.70
Transaction Fees 28.30
Total SPI Exp 97.27
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Tux4Kids
Travel Reimbursement 474.95
Total T4K Exp 474.95
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Total Expenses 3,976.10
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Net Income 4,518.30
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Balance Sheet as of November 30, 2008
ASSETS
Current Assets
Key Business Reward Checking 33,417.23
Key Business Signature Money Market Savings 97,878.16
Ameriprise Cash Mgmt Acct 13,336.39
Total Current Assets 144,631.78
TOTAL ASSETS 144,631.78
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
General and current liabilities 0.00
Equity
Reserves held in trust
Debian Earmark 80,575.27
Drupal Earmark 2,650.00
Freedesktop.org Earmark 1,666.83
Gallery Earmark 5,974.69
GNU TeXmacs Earmark 9.70
Madwifi.org Earmark 1,004.11
OpenOffice.org Earmark 1,185.32
Open Voting Foundation Earmark 392.67
Plan 9 Earmark 6,500.00
PostgreSQL Earmark 11,919.46
Tux4Kids Earmark 3,325.05
Total held in trust 115,203.10
General reserves 29,428.68
Total Equity 144,631.78
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 144,631.78
Secretary's Report
Joerg Jaspert repeated the following report which Jimmy Kaplowitz had provided in the agenda.
I am in the process of arranging an online meeting for this upcoming weekend (Dec 20th or 21st) including SPI site administrator Joerg Jaspert, website volunteer MJ Ray, and me to discuss plans for moving forward with the website overhaul. There should be more news on this front in time for the January secretary's report.
Outstanding Minutes
David Graham moved to reapprove the October 15th, 2008 minutes, amended to note David Graham's presence in the attendance list. Bdale Garbee seconded the motion.
Vote on October 15th, 2008 minutes
| Joerg Jaspert | Abstain |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
| Luk Claes | Yes |
| David Graham | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of Yes: 5, No: 0, Abstain: 1.
Joerg Jaspert moved to approve the November 19th, 2008 minutes. David Graham seconded the motion.
Vote on November 19th, 2008 minutes
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
| Luk Claes | Yes |
| David Graham | Abstain |
Motion passed with a vote of Yes: 5, No: 0, Abstain: 1.
Items up for discussion
Resolution 2008-12-17.bg.1 - Privoxy as associated project
Nobody on the board who was present at the meeting objected to voting on this resolution despite the late notice of its text, for which Bdale apologized.
Vote on Resolution 2008-12-17.bg.1 - Privoxy as associated project
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
| Luk Claes | Yes |
| David Graham | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of Yes: 6, No: 0, Abstain: 1.
Bdale said he would coordinate with Jimmy Kaplowitz regarding who will send the invitation to accept SPI's offer of associated project status to Privoxy.
Other Business
Joerg Jaspert announced that SPI now owns the domains for the Madwifi project. Martin Zobel-Helas offered to prepare the backlogged minutes from before Jimmy's term as Secretary. Michael Schultheiss stated that Tux4Kids is interested in obtaining some trademarks, and he offered to take the lead on discussing this with SPI's lawyers and keeping Tux4Kids updated on the status of this.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.oftc.net.
Appendix A: Current Board Membership
| Last elected | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Bdale Garbee | President |
| July 2007 | Joerg Jaspert | Vice President |
| July 2008 | Jimmy Kaplowitz | Secretary |
| July 2006 | Michael Schultheiss | Treasurer |
| July 2007 | Martin Zobel-Helas | |
| July 2008 | David Graham | |
| July 2007 | Luk Claes | |
| July 2007 | Joshua D. Drake | |
| July 2006 | Neil McGovern |
Appendix B: Approved Resolutions
Resolution 2008-12-17.bg.1 - Privoxy as associated project
SPI Resolution 2008-12-17.bg.1
WHEREAS
1. Privoxy is a significant Free Software project, delivering a non-caching
HTTP proxy that is commonly used to increase a user's privacy level,
to block ads, and to rewrite content for other purposes.
2. The Privoxy developers would like SPI's support and assistance,
including receiving and holding property (e.g., donations) on behalf
of the project, dispersing donations to project members, legal
advice and representation, holding assets such as the privoxy.org domain,
and possibly other services to be decided later by the Privoxy developers.
THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT
3. Privoxy is formally invited to become an SPI Associated Project,
according to the SPI Framework for Associated Projects, SPI
Resolution 1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a copy of
which can be found at
https://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004/2004-08-10.iwj.1
4. Fabian Keil is recognised by SPI as the current authoritative decision
maker for Privoxy. This can be changed in the future by consensus vote
of Hal Burgiss, Fabian Keil, and David Schmidt.
5. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is
approved by the SPI Board.