Board meeting Minutes/15 November 2010

Prior: 1 November 2010

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 29 November 2010

Minutes approved: 29 November 2010

Present

Philip Kizer (chair), Lois Bennett, William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Dan Rich

Apologies

Jimmy Kaplowitz, Derek Balling, David Parter, Jesse Trucks

Opened

20:08 Eastern Time

Closed

21:19 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 1 November 2010

Standing Reports

• Treasurer's report (second meeting of the month only)

• Membership report

• Technical services report

• Mentor report

• Conference/events activities report

Executive Session (drich)

Entered: 20:34 Ended: 20:47

New Business

Affiliate Vendor Idea (ski)

• The idea is that vendors will offer a discount equal to the amount they donate to lopsa. For example, Stonefly networks is willing to discount up to $1000. A lopsa member who decides to purchase a Stonefly system makes a individual or corporate donation to Lopsa and then uses their donation receipt to get a discount for that amount off their order.

Mid-Atlantic GNU/Linux Conference (ski)

We have a request to attend/sponsor this conference (May 6th and 7th) in St. Louis Missouri. They are expecting 750+ people and want to pattern it after SCALE and OLF. Contact info is 314-881-8118 Russ Woodson (not sure about the last name).

Approve new chapter request (Bilancio)

• Request for a LOPSA Chapter in NYC. Three members are: Matt Simmons, Justin Lintz, Nathan Milford. No need for website just use of the list server. A NYC group was never voted on by the Board in the past. Bilancio recommends approval.

Board approved the request.

Public board meetings (Bennett)

• Open to membership
• LC presence

Adjournment

Kacoroski moved and Bilancio seconded a motion to adjourn at 21:19