Board meeting, May 8th, 2023

Board members present

  • Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
  • Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi) (Treasurer)
  • Forrest Fleming (fsf) (Secretary)
  • Joe Conway (jconway)
  • Jonatas L. Nogueira (jesusalva)
  • Jeremy Stanley (fungi)
  • Zach van Rijn (zv)

Board members partially present

  • Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice-President)

Board members absent with regrets

  • Milan Kupcevic (milan)

Board members absent

  • None

Registered guests present

  • Síle Ekaterin Liszka
  • Célestin Matte

These are the minutes for the May 8th, 2023 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.

President's Report

Stephen Frost and I are completing the paperwork for our newest Merrill account,
we will implement the tiered Certificate of Deposit (CD) and investment strategy we discussed
with our financial advisor.

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:

I have a few things I know folks are waiting on and I'm going to be moving those forward shortly.

Treasurer's report

There have been some delays processing payments in the past month or so,
however the pending payments queue is very much under control now.

All statements have been collected up to last month, April 2023.
Monthly reports published up to February 2023.

A stripe account has been created, we are currently investigating,
therefore if you find this useful, do not hesitate to reach out.

Secretary's report

Because I have been unable to devote sufficient time to secretarial tasks,
I plan to step down as secretary. Zach (zv@) has picked up my slack, and so
I think it appropriate for him to take over the title of secretary until positions
are voted upon in August. This should go into effect for June's meeting.

I plan to maintain my position as a board memter. That said, I haven't received
all conflict-of-interest forms; please send those along if you have not already.

Any necessary formal votes should happen at June's meeting - please let this
serve as ample notice of my plans in this regard :)

Vote On Minutes For Previous Meetings

Vote on minutes for meeting Monday February 13th 2023

Joe ConwayYes
Forrest FlemingYes
Stephen FrostYes
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Jonatas L. NogueiraAbstain
Michael SchultheissYes
Jeremy StanleyYes
Zach van RijnYes

Vote passed with 7 yes, 1 abstain, 0 no.

Vote on minutes for meeting Monday March 13th 2023

Joe ConwayYes
Forrest FlemingYes
Stephen FrostAbstain
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Jonatas L. NogueiraYes
Michael SchultheissYes
Jeremy StanleyYes
Zach van RijnYes

Vote passed with 7 yes, 1 abstain, 0 no.

Vote on minutes for meeting Monday April 10th 2023

Joe ConwayYes
Forrest FlemingAbstain
Stephen FrostYes
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Jonatas L. NogueiraAbstain
Michael SchultheissYes
Jeremy StanleyAbstain
Zach van RijnYes

Vote passed with 5 yes, 3 abstain, 0 no.

Items up for discussion

  • None

Other business

We want to plan for a face-to-face meeting.

Stephen would like to note that we are trying to improve the deliverability of RT emails.

Jonatas would like to ensure that a suggestion from membership is scheduled for discussion at June's meeting.

Jeremy would like to thank Perdu for adding e-mail notifications about contributing member application submissions and updates.

Due to missed communication, minutes for previous meetings will be updated to accurately reflect registered guests.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned until Monday June 12th, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

Appendix A: Current Board Membership

Last electedNameRole
July 2021Michael SchultheissPresident
July 2021Stephen FrostVice President
July 2022Héctor Orón MartínezTreasurer
July 2022Forrest FlemingSecretary
July 2020Joe Conway
July 2021Milan Kupcevic
July 2022Jonatas L. Nogueira
July 2022Jeremy Stanley
July 2022Zach van Rijn