Board meeting, March 10th, 2016

Board members present

  • Bdale Garbee (bdale) (President)
  • Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff) (Vice President)
  • Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (Treasurer)
  • Martin Michlmayr (tbm) (Secretary)
  • Robert Brockway (Solver)
  • Joshua D. Drake (linuxhiker)
  • Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
  • Gregers Petersen (glp)
  • Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)

Board members partially present

  • None

Board members absent with regrets

  • None

Board members absent

  • None

Board advisors present

  • None

Registered guests present

  • Philip Balister (Crofton)
  • Jonathan McDowell (Noodles)

These are the minutes for the March 10th, 2016 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:30 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.

President's Report

Bdale Garbee had nothing to report.

Treasurer's report

Following the face-to-face meeting in New York in February, Michael Schultheiss has been working on transitioning SPI to ledger-cli and hoped to have the this month's report available within the next few days using ledger-cli.

Michael thanked the Craigslist Foundation for donating $25,000 each again to SPI's general fund and to PostgreSQL.

Secretary's report

Martin Michlmayr has completed the February minutes, including a summary of the face-to-face meeting in New York.

The board adopted a Conflict of Interest policy in the February meeting. Everyone who attended the face-to-face meeting in New York has completed their conflict of interest declaration. Unfortunately, despite several reminders, some declarations from the other directors are still outstanding.

At the face-to-face meeting in New York, the board agreed to do a member ping. Martin thanked Jonathan McDowell for starting this ping in the meantime.

Outstanding minutes

Vote on Meeting Minutes for 12th February 2016:

Robert BrockwayAbstain
Joshua D. DrakeYes
Bdale GarbeeYes
Joerg JaspertYes
Dimitri John LedkovYes
Martin MichlmayrYes
Gregers PetersenYes
Michael SchultheissYes
Martin Zobel-HelasYes

Motion passed with a vote of 8 yes, 1 abstain, 0 missing.

Vote on Meeting Minutes for Face-to-face Meeting in New York, February 12-14 2016:

Robert BrockwayAbstain
Joshua D. DrakeYes
Bdale GarbeeYes
Joerg JaspertAbstain
Dimitri John LedkovYes
Martin MichlmayrYes
Gregers PetersenYes
Michael SchultheissYes
Martin Zobel-HelasYes

Motion passed with a vote of 7 yes, 2 abstain, 0 missing.

Any other business

Joshua D. Drake discussed various follow-up items from the face-to-face meeting in New York:

  • He had a call with a D&O agent and will have more information soon.
  • Status of the language for associated project resolutions. Dimitri John Ledkov posted proposed language to the board list already.
  • There are several open applications that need full resolution and vote.
  • There are no RT tickets for associated project applications.
  • There's no final draft of the new by-laws. Michlmayr noted that he reached out to Mishi Choudhary from SFLC regarding outstanding tasks already.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned until Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 20:30 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

Appendix A: Current Board Membership

Last electedNameRole
July 2013Bdale GarbeePresident
July 2013Joerg JaspertVice President
July 2014Martin MichlmayrSecretary
July 2015Michael SchultheissTreasurer
July 2013Joshua D. Drake
July 2013Martin Zobel-Helas
July 2014Robert Brockway
July 2014Gregers Petersen
July 2015Dimitri John Ledkov