HIGHLIGHTS [item 1, Opening]
<bdale> 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/meetings/agendas/2011/2011-02-09/ [item 2, Roll Call] 20:30:06 <cdlu> David Graham 20:30:09 <schultmc_> Michael Schultheiss 20:30:10 <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert 20:30:10 <bdale> Bdale Garbee 20:30:11 <Hydroxide> Jimmy Kaplowitz 20:30:23 <zobel> martin Zobel-helas 20:30:33 <Noodles> Jonathan McDowell [item 3, President's Report] <bdale> Nothing to report. [item 4, Treasurer's Report] <schultmc_> At the 2011-01-12 SPI board meeting, there was a query around the higher than normal credit card processing fees attributed to SPI's general expenses during this reporting period. I contacted the credit card processing firm and learned that $685.00 of these fees were for a chargeback against a DebConf professional attendee fee that the attendee had accidentally paid twice. This chargeback has been listed as a Debian expense in the I also fixed an arithmetic error with The HeliOS Project and Yafaray balances. The credit card processing firm also explained how I could get online access to the chargeback interface to review documentation and dispute chargebacks if needed. For this month, a standard report is also in the agenda. btw, if that first paragraph got truncated it's also in the agenda <Hydroxide> thanks. might be good to encourage dc11 attendees and other future payors to SPI to talk to us first, to avoid us building up a chargeback record but, it's not like it's a frequent problem so it mostly doesn't matter <schultmc_> it's both a good suggestion and quite rare [item 5, Secretary's report] <Noodles> Nothing to report from me. [item 6, Outstanding minutes] voting results for "Minutes for meeting of January 12th, 2011": Yes: 7 [item 7, Items up for discussion] <bdale> None. [item 8, Any other business] <Noodles> There's the issue of debian.eu, which I've raised on the board list. <zobel> i hadn't had time to phone them, dunno if want to go that way anyway <Noodles> I think zack needs to ok the expense too, but it can all be handled offline rather than needing meeting time. <zobel> b) debian has released last saturday squeeze and a new website [item 9, Next board meeting] <bdale> Our next regularly-scheduled monthly meeting will be March 9th, 2010, 20:30 UTC. TIMED LOG 20:30:02 <bdale> *GAVEL* 20:30:02 <bdale> [item 1, Opening] Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. 20:30:02 <bdale> Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/agendas/2011/2011-02-09/ 20:30:02 <bdale> [item 2, Roll Call] 20:30:04 <bdale> Board members, please state your name for the record. As we have eight board members, quorum for today's meeting is six. 20:30:05 <bdale> Guests (including board advisors), please /msg your names to Noodles if you wish your attendance to be recorded in the minutes of this meeting. 20:30:06 <cdlu> David Graham 20:30:09 <schultmc_> Michael Schultheiss 20:30:10 <Ganneff> Joerg Jaspert 20:30:10 <bdale> Bdale Garbee 20:30:11 <Hydroxide> Jimmy Kaplowitz 20:30:13 <zobel> gah, needed to change laptop, bb in 1min 20:30:23 <zobel> martin Zobel-helas 20:30:33 <Noodles> Jonathan McDowell 20:30:34 <cdlu> quorum 20:30:42 <bdale> and Joshua sent regrets, right? 20:30:45 <Hydroxide> he did 20:30:46 <schultmc_> yes 20:30:50 <bdale> ok, then that's all accounted for 20:30:55 <zobel> back i am 20:30:58 <bdale> [item 3, President's Report] 20:30:58 <bdale> Nothing to report. 20:30:58 <bdale> [item 4, Treasurer's Report] 20:30:58 <bdale> Michael? 20:31:03 <schultmc_> At the 2011-01-12 SPI board meeting, there was a query around the higher than normal credit card processing fees attributed to SPI's general expenses during this reporting period. I contacted the credit card processing firm and learned that $685.00 of these fees were for a chargeback against a DebConf professional attendee fee that the attendee had accidentally paid twice. This chargeback has been listed as a Debian expense in the 20:31:10 <schultmc_> I also fixed an arithmetic error with The HeliOS Project and Yafaray balances. 20:31:13 <schultmc_> The credit card processing firm also explained how I could get online access to the chargeback interface to review documentation and dispute chargebacks if needed. 20:31:16 <schultmc_> For this month, a standard report is also in the agenda. 20:31:18 <schultmc_> </end> 20:31:34 <bdale> cool, that all makes sense 20:31:40 <schultmc_> btw, if that first paragraph got truncated it's also in the agenda 20:31:58 <bdale> any questions? 20:32:08 <Hydroxide> thanks. might be good to encourage dc11 attendees and other future payors to SPI to talk to us first, to avoid us building up a chargeback record 20:32:16 <Hydroxide> but, it's not like it's a frequent problem 20:32:19 <schultmc_> yes 20:32:20 <Hydroxide> so it mostly doesn't matter 20:32:31 <schultmc_> it's both a good suggestion and quite rare 20:32:32 <bdale> we just don't want a lot of them in one month 20:32:34 <Hydroxide> right 20:32:58 <bdale> since we use payment processors and don't do cards directly, that probably helps 20:32:59 <Hydroxide> no other questions from me. thanks for the corrections. 20:33:03 <Hydroxide> sure. 20:33:16 <bdale> ok, I think we can proceed. Thanks for chasing that down, Michael! 20:33:21 <schultmc_> no problem 20:33:24 <bdale> [item 5, Secretary's report] 20:33:24 <bdale> Jonathan? 20:33:28 <Noodles> Nothing to report from me. 20:33:39 <bdale> [item 6, Outstanding minutes] 20:33:39 <bdale> I believe we have last month's ready to vote on today, right Jonathan? 20:33:57 * Hydroxide is ready to vote, having read them. 20:34:05 <cdlu> ditto 20:34:15 <Noodles> Voting started, 7 people (cdlu,schultmc_,bdale,hydroxide,zobel,noodles,ganneff) allowed to vote on Minutes for meeting of January 12th, 2011. - You may vote yes/no/abstain only, type !vote $yourchoice now. 20:34:19 <schultmc_> !vote yes 20:34:20 <Ganneff> !vote yes 20:34:20 <cdlu> !vote yes 20:34:21 <zobel> !vote yes 20:34:21 <Noodles> !vote yes 20:34:22 <bdale> !vote yes 20:34:30 <Hydroxide> !vote yes 20:34:41 <Noodles> Current voting results for "Minutes for meeting of January 12th, 2011": Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 0, Missing: 0 () 20:34:44 <Noodles> Voting for "Minutes for meeting of January 12th, 2011" closed. 20:35:04 <bdale> [item 7, Items up for discussion] 20:35:05 <bdale> None. 20:35:14 <bdale> [item 8, Any other business] 20:35:14 <bdale> Do any board members have other items for discussion they would like to address briefly? 20:35:23 <Noodles> There's the issue of debian.eu, which I've raised on the board list. 20:35:42 <Noodles> zobel, did you want to try to ring the current reigstrant before we start the ADR? 20:35:44 <bdale> any actions for us to discuss here today? 20:35:45 <zobel> i hadn't had time to phone them, dunno if want to go that way anyway 20:35:48 <Noodles> Ok. 20:36:18 <bdale> anything else? 20:36:19 <Noodles> I think zack needs to ok the expense too, but it can all be handled offline rather than needing meeting time. 20:36:32 <Hydroxide> indeed, sounds fine 20:36:34 <zobel> they ignored the two letters that we sent anyway 20:36:46 <bdale> I don't think calling them is going to help 20:36:52 <zobel> b) debian has released last saturday squeeze and a new website 20:36:58 <Hydroxide> woo! :-) 20:37:01 <cdlu> woot! 20:37:13 <cdlu> zobel, do you want to write a resolution for action on 1? 20:37:46 <Hydroxide> cdlu: no need for one. we do those too much :) 20:38:04 <zobel> bah, this dsl connection sucks today. 20:38:06 <cdlu> well our resolution passing has thinned out dramatically over the past months ;) 20:38:07 <bdale> I agree. This is just responding to a service request from the DPL on behalf of Debian. 20:38:15 <cdlu> ok 20:38:26 <Hydroxide> cdlu: it's been discussed enough at past meetings of the board and via emails. if any SPI authority is needed beyond what exists bdale can approve something as president 20:38:44 <bdale> right 20:38:48 * zobel done 20:38:52 <bdale> and if it gets to a lawsuit or something, that's a different thing 20:39:01 <bdale> ok, any other topics? 20:39:03 <Hydroxide> right 20:39:13 <cdlu> are we all happy with bottom-of-the-hour meetings? they work for me. 20:39:22 <bdale> [item 9, Next board meeting] 20:39:22 <bdale> Our next regularly-scheduled monthly meeting will be March 9th, 2010, 20:30 UTC. 20:39:22 <bdale> Any strong objections? 20:39:32 * Hydroxide is fine with this time on march 9 20:39:34 <schultmc_> works for me 20:39:38 <Noodles> I'm more flexible now my Wednesday meeting has moved, so it's fine with me. 20:39:41 <zobel> no, works for me. 20:39:43 <bdale> I should be in my home office 20:39:54 <bdale> ok, then we'll do that 20:39:57 <Hydroxide> cool 20:40:02 <bdale> Ok, thank you to everyone present for participating today. 20:40:02 <bdale> *GAVEL* Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. 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