Board meeting, April 15th, 2009
Board members present
- Bdale Garbee (bdale) (President)
- Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff) (Vice President)
- Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (Treasurer)
- David Graham (cdlu)
- Luk Claes (luk_)
- Joshua D. Drake (linuxpoet)
- Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
Board members partially present
- Jimmy Kaplowitz (Hydroxide) (Secretary)
Board members absent with regrets
- Neil McGovern (Maulkin)
Board members absent
- None
Board advisors present
- None
Registered guests present
- Julien Cristau (jcristau)
- Greg Sabino Mullane (G_SabinoMullane)
These are the draft minutes for the April 15th, 2009 SPI Board meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG
President's Report
Bdale provided the following president's report: "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."
Treasurer's Report
Michael Schultheiss provided the following financial report for February 2009.
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 March 01, 2009 - March 31, 2009
Income
Ordinary Income
Debian 1,666.46
Freedesktop.org 25.00
Gallery 100.00
Madwifi.org 60.00
OpenOffice.org 35.26
Open Voting Foundation 25.00
PostgreSQL 105.26
SPI General 269.00
SPI 5% 100.84
Total Ordinary Income 2,386.82
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Interest Income
Key Bank Money Mkt Savings 54.68
Total Interest Income 54.68 -----
Gross Income 2,441.50
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Expenses
Ordinary Expenses
Debian
Processing Fees 51.13
SPI 5% 83.32
Total Debian Exp 134.45
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Freedesktop.org
Processing Fees 1.00
SPI 5% 1.25
Total Freedesktop.org Exp 2.25
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Gallery
Processing Fees 2.70
SPI 5% 5.00
Total Gallery Exp 7.70
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Madwifi.org
Processing Fees 2.40
SPI 5% 3.00
Total Madwifi.org Exp 5.40
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OpenOffice.org
Processing Fees 1.41
SPI 5% 1.76
Total OpenOffice.org Exp 3.17
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Open Voting Foundation
Processing Fees 1.00
SPI 5% 1.25
Travel Reimbursement 350.00
Total OVF Exp 352.25
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PostgreSQL
Conference Expenses 346.00
Processing Fees 4.21
SPI 5% 5.26
Travel Reimbursement 392.20
Total PostgreSQL Exp 747.67
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SPI
1099 Filing Fee 39.00
Fax 2.75
Office Supplies 42.78
PaySimple Monthly Fee 29.95
Postage 35.00
Transaction Fees 18.34
Total SPI Exp 167.82
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Total Expenses 1,420.71
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Net Income 1,020.79
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Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2009
ASSETS
Current Assets
Key Business Reward Checking 6,829.37
Key Business Signature Money Market Savings 193,088.74
Ameriprise Cash Mgmt Acct 13,389.51
Total Current Assets 213,307.62
TOTAL ASSETS 213,307.62
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
General and current liabilities 0.00
Equity
Reserves held in trust
Debian Earmark 129,466.93
Drupal Earmark 2,650.00
Freedesktop.org Earmark 1,689.58
Gallery Earmark 5,821.44
GNU TeXmacs Earmark 9.70
Madwifi.org Earmark 1,239.80
OpenOffice.org Earmark 1,359.41
Open Voting Foundation Earmark 65.42
Plan 9 Earmark 6,500.00
PostgreSQL Earmark 30,208.82
Tux4Kids Earmark 1,865.05
Total held in trust 180,876.15
General reserves 32,431.47
Total Equity 213,307.62
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 213,307.62
Michael agreed to email the spi-projects mailing list to remind projects to spend rather than hoard funds.
Secretary's Report
Jimmy Kaplowitz provided the following secretary's report.
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 odds with the resolution passed in March, this makes OpenWRT's associated project status official.
After brief discussion, the Board considered OpenWRT's response to be acceptable, thus finalizing OpenWRT's status as an SPI associated project.
Outstanding Minutes
Jimmy Kaplowitz presented the minutes from March 2008 (prepared by Martin Zobel-Helas) and March 2009 (prepared by Jimmy) for approval. Before voting, two corrections were made to the March 2009 minutes, adding an approved resolution to Appendix B that had been omitted and fixing a typo in Tim Golden's name.
Vote to approve March 2008 minutes
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
| Joshua D. Drake | Abstain |
| David Graham | Yes |
| Luk Claes | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1.
Vote to approve March 2009 minutes
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
| Joshua D. Drake | Yes |
| David Graham | Yes |
| Luk Claes | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Abstain |
Motion passed with a vote of Yes: 7, No: 0, Abstain: 1.
Martin Zobel-Helas expressed a hope that he would have the June, July, and August 2008 minutes ready in time for the May meeting.
Other Business
The board noted that Debian Project Leader Steve McIntyre won re-election. Jimmy Kaplowitz congratulated him. Luk Claes said that he was delegated as Steve's assistant for the new DPL term.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Wednesday, May 20th, 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
(none)