Meeting agenda for Monday 12th August, 2024

This is the proposed agenda for the SPI board Meeting of Monday, August 12th 2024, to be held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

  1. Opening
  2. Roll Call
  3. President's report (Michael Schultheiss)
  4. Treasurer's report (Héctor Orón Martínez)
  5. Secretary's report (Zach van Rijn)
  6. Outstanding minutes
    1. Monday, 8 July, 2024
  7. Items up for discussion
    1. The Mana World rebrand as Manasource
    2. Legal Counsel Fees
    3. Officer Elections
  8. Any other business
  9. Next board meeting: September 9, 2024, 20:00 UTC

President's report

pending

Treasurer's report

pending

Secretary's report

pending

Items up for Discussion

The Mana World rebrand as Manasource

(From Jonatas)

# Resolution 2024-XX-XX.jln.1: The Mana World rebrand as Manasource

WHEREAS

1. SPI currently recognizes The Mana World as a SPI associated project (as per [2014-07-07.mzh.1](/corporate/resolutions/2014/2014-07-07.mzh.1)).

2. The Mana World decided to rename its organization to "Manasource", with no
changes to their intents and values, to reduce confusion with their different game
projects. A new homepage reflecting these changes is available at https://manasource.org

3. The administrative team and executive body of the organisation remains unchanged in its sturcture and 
is now known as Mana Team (formerly TMW Team or TMW Committee).

4. "The Mana World" brand will continue being used for their oldest game and retain its website at https://themanaworld.org

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

1. SPI recognises the name change of the Manasource project from The Mana World and
will update its records accordingly.

2. SPI recognises the name change of Mana Team from TMW Team/TMW Committee and 
will endavour to keep references to it consistent on its website and in regards to the 2014 resolution.

3. William Pine continues to be recognised as the current authoritative decision
maker and SPI liaison for Manasource. Future liaisons will be appointed in turn by
the sitting project liaison, or by a simple majority of existing Mana Team
members, as defined in https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17166

Legal Counsel Fees

(From Jonatas)

# Resolution 2024-08-12.jln.1: Legal Counsel Fees

CONSIDERING that SPI no longer has a free as in gratis legal counsel; and

CONSIDERING that having a paid attorney option provides strategic advantages to SPI and its associated projects, and that SPI purpose is to support its projects collectively, as stated in the Certificate of Incorporation,

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

In this resolution, "attorney", "lawyer" and "legal counsel" terms are used interchangeably.

1. Legal fees incurred by projects which require the use of a paid attorney will be billed against the project;
2. If a pro bono attorney offers SPI their services, or withdraw their offer for free services, SPI will inform that at least in the projects mailing list, so the projects may opt for the option more aligned with their goals;
3. Legal fees which can benefit multiple projects, such as templates, will be invoiced against SPI General Fund as is current practice;
4. If SPI decides that consulting a paid attorney is required as part of the process for providing some other service, the project will only be billed with the liaison's acknowledgement;
5. When a project has requested SPI legal counsel, has no assets to cover for it, and SPI has no pro bono lawyers available, SPI will decide administratively to either temporarily refuse the request until a pro bono attorney becomes available, or to sponsor the request with the General Fund.
6. Legal Fees incurred of SPI's interest as a whole, or which cannot be appropriately divided by project, will be billed against SPI general fund.
7. When financial reality allows for it, SPI Treasury or Board may resolve to cover certain low volume, day to day or regular expenses such as trademark renewals with the General Fund.
8. Revoke resolutions 2007-11-14.jdd.1.jb.1 and 2004-09-07.dbg.2

Other Business

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