Board meeting, January 9th, 2023
Board members present
- Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
- Forrest Fleming (fsf) (Secretary)
- Joe Conway (jconway)
- Jonatas L. Nogueira (jesusalva)
- Jeremy Stanley (fungi)
Board members partially present
- Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice-President)
Board members absent with regrets
- Milan Kupcevic (milan)
Board members absent
- Zach van Rijn (zv)
- Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi) (Treasurer)
Registered guests present
- None
These are the minutes for the January 9th, 2023 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.
President's Report
After months of hassle, I was able to get the verification for Debian's EV SSL certificate completed. I've added an agenda item discussing our telecommunications infrastructure so we can hopefully alleviate the issues in the future. Continued thanks to SPI Vice President, Stephen Frost, for handling contracting with SPI's contractors. Stephen continues to do a fantastic job working with our contractors and legal counsel.
Vice-president's report:
Provided by Perdu, after meeting (not reflected in logs):
Since Snow-Man wasn't able to mention IT-related stuff, I wanted to add something, as I think nobody saw my RT ticket: I switched off the chic server (chic.spi-inc.org and chic2.spi-inc.org), which is supposedly a defunct server with no service running. If someone sees a missing service, please shout as I will completely remove this server at end of the month so that RapidSwitch stops.
Treasurer's report
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. We are working on collecting all data to close last year's books and providing the relevant reports.
Secretary's report
The process of getting appropriate Apple App Store permissions for Battle for Wesnoth is ongoing. Happy new year! Please be on the lookout for new conflict of interest forms. Thanks to jesusalva for the reminder on that!
Vote On Minutes For Previous Meetings
Vote on minutes for meeting Monday December 12th 2022
| Joe Conway | Yes |
| Forrest Fleming | Yes |
| Stephen Frost | \* |
| Jonatas L. Nogueira | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Jeremy Stanley | Yes |
*: Snow-Man was not able to vote at the time-of-vote.
Vote passed with 5 yes, 0 abstain, 0 no.
Items up for discussion
- None
Other business
Fabrik application
Fabrik has withdrawn their application
Telecommunications infrastructure
Debian required a new extended validation (EV) certificate. The process of procuring this was quite difficult due to address changes, a phone number's having been decommissioned, and so on. To prevent similar issues in the future, SPI will investigate a paid VOIP provider
Individual board members have had good success with https://voip.ms; board members are generally in agreement that a paid provider with service level agreements (SLAs), etc. is the appropriate path forward.
Financial audit
tbm will get a quote from our firm for an audit of the SPI books. All board members are in general, informal agreement. No formal vote was needed, and as such none was taken.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Monday February 13th, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.
Appendix A: Current Board Membership
| Last elected | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Michael Schultheiss | President |
| July 2021 | Stephen Frost | Vice President |
| July 2022 | Héctor Orón Martínez | Treasurer |
| July 2022 | Forrest Fleming | Secretary |
| July 2020 | Joe Conway | |
| July 2021 | Milan Kupcevic | |
| July 2022 | Jonatas L. Nogueira | |
| July 2022 | Jeremy Stanley | |
| July 2022 | Zach van Rijn |