Board meeting Minutes/14 May 2007
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Prior: 7 May 2007 |
Board meeting Minutes | Next: 21 May 2007 |
Minutes approved: 21 May 2007
- Present
- Tom Perrine (chair), Trey Harris, Doug Hughes, Andrew Hume, David Parter (note taker), Sam Albrecht
- Apologies
- Pat Wilson, Chris Palmer, Stephen Potter
- Opened
- 8:07 Eastern Time
- Closed
- 8:52 Eastern Time
Consent Agenda
- Approve minutes of 7 May 2007 PASSED
Action Items
Board Committees
- Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)
- Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
- Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation - DONE
- Albrecht recommends approval to partner with SCALE
- Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation - DONE
MOTION: Albrecht will pursue agreement with SCALE
- Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)
- Wilson - Query Committee regarding election logistics (how involved does the LC want to be in that?) - DONE
- Policy Committee (Harris)
- Communications Committee
- Perrine - Follow up with SysAdmin Magazine regarding volunteers for online answer folks [due 3/20]
- Membership Committee
- Parter - Set up retention-rate report - Due 5/28
- Albrecht - Refresh conversion letter
- Wilson - Look into quarterly member drawing prizes - not done
Program Committees
- Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)
- Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)
- Perrine - Organize Sysadmin Day 2007 site update -- nothing to report, this week?
- Perrine - Turn his lopsa-discuss posting on the CFV for Sysadmin Day into a post for the web page -- this week?
- Barr - Follow up on tech-team php-list(?) mailer integration into Drupal
- Content Services Committee (Palmer/Potter)
- Palmer, Potter - Draft a plan regarding how a paid/compensated content director might help the website, and what sort of requirements we might make for that position [due 5/7] (try for next week)
Non-Committee
- Financial
- Hume - Provide at Dec 2006 Treasurer's report writeup for the Board and for the web site. Hume produced draft, minor revisions will be made by Hume and Perinne.
- Albrecht:
- Provide status on IRS 501.c.3 status [due 4/9] - still waiting for update from IRS
- Enquire whether SoCoSA would be interested in pursuing Chapter status
- Barr:
- Harris:
- Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority)
- Gather material for Halprin request [2/26]
(Harris phone not working)
- Hughes:
- Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on consultant resources skeleton/framework [due 4/1]
- Contact Gilbert Wilson about work-pay ideas -- had a discussion, he will submit some ideas
- Hume:
- Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - [in progress; invite sent out; 2 replies so far]
- Palmer:
- Parter:
- Perrine:
- Perrine will work with Sam and Michele on "CONVERSION" of visitors to members
- Potter:
- Wilson:
- All:
Standing Reports
- Treasurer's report (second meeting of the month only)
- Membership report
- See the report online for this week's status
- Online report
- Sysadmin Days report
- Development report (Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)
- Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)
- Sysadmin Mag ad topic (fourth meeting of the month only)
Nickels letter
Free software from Micros$ft!! Weeeee!!!!
Albrecht to forward letter to SASAG and inform MS
New Business
Elections
- can host candidate statements and forum on lopsa.org
- candidates need to sign the NDA
- offer conference call for candidates and board
- tenative in-person board meeting in NJ sunday before or wed after Sysadmin Days