Board meeting, August 10th, 2020

Board members present

• Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
• Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice-President)
• Joe Conway (jconway)
• Luca Filipozzi (luca)
• Forrest Fleming (fsf)
• Chris Lamb (lamby)
• Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)

Board members partially present

• None

Board members absent with regrets

• Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) (Treasurer)
• Tim Potter (tpot) (Secretary)

Board members absent

• None

Registered guests present

• None

These are the minutes for the August 10th, 2020 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.

President's Report

Continued thanks to SPI Vice President, Stephen Frost, for handling
contracting with SPI's current and potential contractors. Stephen
continues to do a fantastic job working with our contractors and legal
counsel.

Merrill Lynch's business department has requested physical signatures
rather than the electronic signatures previously submitted. I'm
working with Stephen and Tim to finalize the paperwork this week.

The biggest thing is that we will be migrating the website to new
hosting here very soon(tm) We want to check into some things that
board members have reported regarding the new site (thanks!)  Once the
main site has been migrated, we will move to migrating members and
bringing that back up I've got the database from noodles (thanks!) and
we should have that back up real soon now(tm).

Treasurer's report

Report presented by Michael Schultheiss on behalf of Martin Zobel-Helas.

The audit of SPI's 2019 financial statements was completed prior to
the July Annual General Meeting. The auditing firm is also contracted
to complete SPI's 990 (federal tax filing) and CHAR500 (New York state
filing). They have completed the filings and have sent them to SPI for
review before submission.

Michael has reached out to our business development manager at Chase
for assistance with the wire transfers we've had issues with. Michael
will reach out again if he doesn't hear anything early this week.

The SPI treasury team is continuing to process requests and is
striving for more timely ticket handling. The backlog is being
processed but if there are any board members who would like to assist
with treasury tasks, additional help is always welcome.

Secretary's report

Tim Potter not present.

Vote on Minutes for meeting Monday, 13th July 2020

Minutes for this meeting are not yet available.

Items up for Discussion

Board Election Results

The 2020 SPI board election has now completed and we are pleased to announce the results as follows. The following members are appointed to the SPI board:

• Joe Conway (jconway)
• Tim Potter (tpot)

The following members are thanked for running:

• Milan Kupcevic (milan)

Full results are available at: https://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/votes/2020-board-election/.

Officer Elections

The August SPI board meeting features officer elections. SPI officers consist of:

• President
• Vice-President
• Secretary
• Treasurer

The current officers are Michael Schultheiss (President), Stephen Frost (Vice President), Timothy Potter (Secretary), and Martin Zobel-Helas (Treasurer).

All current officers have expressed interest in re-running. No other SPI directors were interested in running for an officer position.

Joe Conway	Yes
Luca Filipozzi	Yes
Forrest Fleming	Yes
Stephen Frost	Yes
Chris Lamb	Yes
Héctor Orón Martínez	Yes
Michael Schultheiss	Yes

Vote passes with 7 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain.

Any other business

Happiness was expressed by Stephen Frost with progress and responsiveness with our current set of contractors and legal counsel.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned until Monday September 14th 2020 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

Appendix A: Current Board Membership

Last elected	Name	Role
July 2018	Michael Schultheiss	President
July 2018	Stephen Frost	Vice President
July 2019	Martin Zobel-Helas	Treasurer
July 2020	Timothy Potter	Secretary
July 2020	Joe Conway
July 2018	Luca Filipozzi
July 2019	Forrest Fleming
July 2019	Chris Lamb
July 2019	Héctor Orón Martínez