Pretty short meeting, tidying up loose ends from previous months. I'm a little disappointed that the incomplete minutes for March 19th, 2008 were approved without any marking that the guest list is incomplete, but more disappointed that no-one's yet asked projects to get on and spend. Are developers on SPI-associated projects immune to the recession and don't need these funds?
The responses might be an interesting thing for the annual report... HIGHLIGHTS <bdale> [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/2009/2009-04-15.html [item 2, Roll Call] <cdlu> David Graham <schultmc> Michael Schultheiss <linuxpoet> Joshua D. Drake <luk> Luk Claes <bdale> Bdale Garbee <zobel> Martin Zobel-Helas <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert <Hydroxide> Jimmy Kaplowitz (item 4 on) [item 3, President's Report] <bdale> Nothing exciting today. All of last week I was in San Francisco for the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and LF Collaboration Summit, but have little to report from that of interest to SPI members. [item 4, Treasurer's Report] <schultmc> treasurer's report was mailed out this morning and is posted in the agenda only comment I have is to reiterate my comments from last month (encouraging projects to spend rather than hoard funds) I can send a message to -projects [item 5, Secretary's report] <Hydroxide> nothing to add to what's in the agenda as of a few minutes before the meeting :) I do want people opinions on whether OpenWRT's acceptance meets the terms of the resolution I notified Gregers Petersen and the openwrt-hackers email list of SPI's invitation to become an SPI associated project with Gregers as sole liaison, and mentioned the 60-day deadline of May 17, 2009. I checked with them on April 14th, and Gregers replied on the 15th accepting the offer with himself serving "as main liaison, and Andy Boyett as second/back-up liaison." Unless the Board deems the existence of a second/back-up liaison to be at odd <Hydroxide> I agree it's fine. just thought I'd run it by you all in that case, glp, are you there? I'm happy now to say to OpenWRT: Welcome to SPI! :-) [item 6, Outstanding minutes] "Approve March 19, 2008 minutes": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1 "Approve March 18, 2009 minutes": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1 [item 8, Any other business] <luk> Steve McIntyre got reelected [as DPL] and I'll will be delegated as assistant :-) [item 9, Next board meeting] <bdale> Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, at 20:00 UTC 21:16:58 <bdale> *GAVEL* TIMED LOG 21:00:05 <bdale> *GAVEL* 21:00:05 <bdale> [item 1, Opening] Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. 21:00:05 <bdale> Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/agenda/2009/2009-04-15.html 21:00:05 <bdale> [item 2, Roll Call] 21:00:06 <bdale> Board members, please state your name for the record. As we have nine board members, quorum for today's meeting is six. 21:00:09 <bdale> Guests (including board advisors), please /msg your names to Hydroxide if you wish your attendance to be recorded in the minutes of this meeting. 21:00:10 <cdlu> David Graham 21:00:12 <bdale> I think I saw regrets from Neil? 21:00:15 <schultmc> Michael Schultheiss 21:00:15 <linuxpoet> Joshua D. Drake 21:00:16 <luk> Luk Claes 21:00:19 <linuxpoet> bdale: yes 21:00:20 <cdlu> bdale, I saw them too 21:00:28 <bdale> Bdale Garbee 21:00:32 <zobel> Martin Zobel-Helas 21:00:51 <devil> Ferdinand Thommes 21:01:14 <bdale> ok, cool 21:01:18 <bdale> looks like we have quorum 21:01:19 <cdlu> one short for quorum 21:01:29 <bdale> oh, sorry, you're right 21:01:32 <linuxpoet> tap tap tap 21:01:35 <bdale> who are we expecting but missing? 21:01:35 <schultmc> cdlu: no, that's six 21:01:36 <zobel> Ganneff: ^^ 21:01:41 * cdlu pokes hydroxide 21:01:43 <bdale> Ferdnand isn't a board member 21:01:47 <cdlu> yes but one of them is not a board member 21:01:50 <schultmc> cdlu, schultmc, linuxpoet, luk, bdale, zobel 21:01:54 <schultmc> ^^ 6 21:01:54 <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert 21:01:57 <schultmc> 7 21:02:01 <zobel> great. 21:02:01 <luk> right, I think some cannot count :-) 21:02:09 <bdale> trying to count with a phone in one ear is HARD 21:02:38 <luk> anyway 7 board members are present 21:02:53 <cdlu> ok :) 21:03:00 <bdale> [item 3, President's Report] 21:03:00 <bdale> Nothing exciting today. All of last week I was in San Francisco for the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and LF Collaboration Summit, but have little to repo 21:03:00 <bdale> rt from that of interest to SPI members. 21:03:00 <bdale> [item 4, Treasurer's Report] 21:03:02 <bdale> Michael? 21:03:11 * cdlu pokes hydroxide 21:03:18 <Hydroxide> Jimmy Kaplowitz 21:03:19 <schultmc> treasurer's report was mailed out this morning and is posted in the agenda 21:03:32 <Hydroxide> people came over at work right before the meeting started, unfortunately. I'm free again now. 21:03:44 <schultmc> only comment I have is to reiterate my comments from last month (encouraging projects to spend rather than hoard funds) 21:03:59 <bdale> schultmc: do we need to take any explicit action on that? 21:04:20 <schultmc> bdale: I can send a message to -projects 21:04:26 <bdale> sounds like a good plan 21:04:34 <bdale> [item 5, Secretary's report] 21:04:34 <bdale> Jimmy? 21:04:55 <Hydroxide> bdale: nothing to add to what's in the agenda as of a few minutes before the meeting :) 21:05:10 <Hydroxide> I do want people opinions on whether OpenWRT's acceptance meets the terms of the resolution 21:05:26 <bdale> that was since I read the agenda... care to elaborate briefly? 21:05:31 <Hydroxide> I think it does, but I wasn't one of the more vocal people arguing for a single liaison 21:05:57 <Hydroxide> I'll just paste the few lines I added 21:06:10 <Hydroxide> I notified Gregers Petersen and the openwrt-hackers email list of SPI's invitation to become an SPI associated project with Gregers as sole liaison, and mentioned the 60-day deadline of May 17, 2009. I checked with them on April 14th, and Gregers replied on the 15th accepting the offer with himself serving "as main liaison, and Andy Boyett as second/back-up liaison." Unless the Board deems the existence of a second/back-up liaison to be at odd 21:06:17 <Hydroxide> that's the whole secretary's report 21:06:22 <bdale> ok 21:06:36 <bdale> I can live with that, I think. one primary point of contact seems to meet our needs. 21:06:46 <linuxpoet> Well the way postgresql does it, is if I am not available I designate someone as liaison. I believe when I did that the one time I emailed board to let them know 21:06:47 <luk> right 21:06:48 <bdale> any other opinions? 21:06:49 <cdlu> I think it meets the terms. That's merely an instruction from the Liaison to listen to the other. :) 21:07:07 <Hydroxide> I agree it's fine. just thought I'd run it by you all 21:07:08 <bdale> cdlu: right, I think we can interpret it that way and be happy 21:07:26 <Hydroxide> in that case, glp, are you there? I'm happy now to say to OpenWRT: Welcome to SPI! :-) 21:07:28 <cdlu> do we need a motion on this or can we all agree and be happy wrt WRT? :) 21:07:33 <Hydroxide> I think we're all happy now. 21:07:40 * linuxpoet does the Happy Feet 21:07:46 <bdale> let's move on 21:07:52 <bdale> [item 6, Outstanding minutes] 21:07:52 <bdale> Jimmy, we have a couple sets to vote on today? 21:08:24 <Hydroxide> yes. I finally got the remaining info for the March 2008 minutes (thanks to some members on -private for supplementing registered guests list) 21:08:29 <Hydroxide> and did last month's too 21:08:42 * zobel needs to admit to not yet have done the other outstanding ones from Neil yet. :/ i hope to have them finished for the next month. 21:08:44 <Hydroxide> so March '08 and March '09 are ready for voting 21:09:00 * cdlu moves the motion 21:09:04 * schultmc has a comment on march 09 21:09:04 <Hydroxide> I also fixed the typo in Tim Golden's name which bdale mentioned, though it's possible that typo actually occurred during the meeting to :) 21:09:13 <Hydroxide> (in March '09) 21:09:14 <bdale> not sure 21:09:15 <Hydroxide> schultmc: go ahead 21:09:22 <bdale> yes, let's vote 21:09:29 <schultmc> 2009-03-18.mcs.1 isn't listed in appendix b (approved resolutions) 21:09:30 <Hydroxide> schultmc had a comment 21:09:48 <bdale> oh 21:09:52 <bdale> good point 21:10:10 <Hydroxide> yes. if you can wait literally a couple of minutes I'll fix that :) 21:10:13 <bdale> did Slef have a correction? said so in a blog post? 21:10:26 <Hydroxide> I got his correction 21:10:29 <bdale> ok, good 21:10:53 <bdale> if you accept the suggested changes, I'm happy to proceed with a vote on the minutes as amended 21:11:56 <Hydroxide> schultmc: does it look good now? 21:12:17 <Hydroxide> I'll do it as two votes 21:12:19 <schultmc> Hydroxide: yes 21:13:00 <Hydroxide> Voting started, 8 people (hydroxide,schultmc,bdale,cdlu,luk_,linuxpoet,zobel,ganneff) allowed to vote on Approve March 19, 2008 minutes. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now. 21:13:10 <schultmc> !vote yes 21:13:11 <cdlu> !vote yes 21:13:12 <bdale> !vote yes 21:13:13 <Hydroxide> !vote yes 21:13:14 <linuxpoet> $vote abstain 21:13:18 <zobel> !vote yes 21:13:18 <linuxpoet> !vote abstain 21:13:20 <Ganneff> !vote yes 21:13:34 <Hydroxide> Current voting results for "Approve March 19, 2008 minutes": Yes: 6, No: 0, Abstain: 1, Missing: 1 ( luk_ ) 21:13:37 <Hydroxide> erg 21:13:38 <Hydroxide> sorry 21:13:40 <Hydroxide> Voting for "Approve March 19, 2008 minutes" closed. 21:13:41 <luk> !vote yes 21:13:57 <Hydroxide> FOR THE MINUTES: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain 21:14:00 <Hydroxide> good 21:14:11 <bdale> next 21:14:15 <Hydroxide> Voting started, 8 people (hydroxide,schultmc,bdale,cdlu,luk,linuxpoet,zobel,ganneff) allowed to vote on Approve March 18, 2009 minutes. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now. 21:14:19 <schultmc> !vote yes 21:14:20 <bdale> !vote yes 21:14:22 <Ganneff> !vote yes 21:14:22 <luk> sorry, wanted to have a look at the updated ones 21:14:23 <zobel> !vote abstain 21:14:23 <linuxpoet> !vote yes 21:14:24 <Hydroxide> !vote yes 21:14:25 <luk> !vote yes 21:14:28 <cdlu> !vote yes 21:14:32 <Hydroxide> luk: no problem. I also used your wrong nick for the voting script 21:14:35 <Hydroxide> (the first time) 21:14:45 <Hydroxide> Current voting results for "Approve March 18, 2009 minutes": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1, Missing: 0 () 21:14:48 <Hydroxide> Voting for "Approve March 18, 2009 minutes" closed. 21:14:49 <Hydroxide> both approved. 21:14:54 <bdale> cool 21:15:01 <bdale> [item 7, Items up for discussion] 21:15:01 <bdale> (none) 21:15:01 <bdale> [item 8, Any other business] 21:15:01 <bdale> Do any board members have other items for discussion they would like to address briefly? 21:15:04 <luk> I even changed my nick before the meeting to have it easy :-) 21:15:11 <Hydroxide> luk: I was used to the old one :) 21:15:31 <luk> Steve McIntyre got reelected 21:15:45 * Hydroxide cheers and congratulates him. 21:15:46 <bdale> yes, noted 21:15:48 <cdlu> luk, first multi-term DPL in years 21:15:51 <luk> and I'll will be delegated as assistant :-) 21:15:53 <bdale> since tbm 21:16:02 <cdlu> ya, tbm was right after you wasn't he? 21:16:05 <bdale> yes 21:16:10 <bdale> he survived 2 years 21:16:19 <bdale> anything else? 21:16:21 <cdlu> not from me 21:16:26 <bdale> [item 9, Next board meeting] 21:16:26 <bdale> I believe our default would be Wednesday, May 20th, 2009, at 20:00 UTC. That date and time is ok for me. Any strong objections? 21:16:32 <Hydroxide> it's fine for me too. 21:16:37 <schultmc> that's fine with me 21:16:39 <linuxpoet> its my birthday 21:16:42 <linuxpoet> so tentative regrets 21:16:47 <Hydroxide> linuxpoet: ok. congrats! :) 21:16:50 <linuxpoet> :) 21:16:58 <bdale> Ok, thank you to everyone present for participating today. 21:16:58 <bdale> *GAVEL* Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (webmaster - personal website http://mjr.towers.org.uk ) Webmaster for http://www.ttllp.co.uk tech worker cooperative - Turo Technology LLP, reg'd in England+Wales, number OC303457 Reg. Office: 36 Orchard Cl., Kewstoke, Somerset, GB-BS22 9XY _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
