Board meeting Minutes/19 February 2007

Prior: 12 February 2007

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 26 February 2007

Minutes approved: 26 February 2007

Present

Tom Perrine (chair), Trey Harris, Andrew Hume, Stephen Potter, Pat Wilson (note taker), Sam Albrecht

Apologies

Doug Hughes, David Parter

Opened

20:17 Eastern Time

Closed

20:50 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 12 February 2007

Action Items

Board Committees

• Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)
  • Wilson - Follow up on LISA discussion with BlueArc - DONE will need to wait for BlueArc to give gohead

• Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
  • Palmer - Contact local office of possible partner - no report
  • Barr, Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation [due 2/19] - not done now due 2/26.

• Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)

• Policy Committee (Harris)

• Communications Committee
  • Perrine - Follow up with SysAdmin Magazine regarding volunteers for online answer folks - in progress see the wiki page for background and possible formats; Perrine to talk further with SA Mag

• Membership Committee
  • Albrecht - Work on different instances of member renewal letters - not done
  • Parter - Send a note to the prospects gathered at LISA - no report
  • Hughes, Parter - Implement member opt-out of non-LOPSA mailings - not done

Program Committees

• Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)
  • Wilson - Ask Obejas for a SCALE summary report - DONE

• Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)

• 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 - no action

• Locals Committee (Perrine)
  • Need feedback on the more detailed "locals program including the "Locals kit". Other than fleshing out the "kit" it should be nearly done.

Non-Committee

• Financial
  • Hume - Provide at Dec 2006 Treasurer's report writeup for the Board and for the web site - not done

• Albrecht:
  • Provide status on IRS 501.c.3 status - in progress now due 3/12
  • Query insurance company regarding possible member insurance options [due 2/12] - in progress
  • Follow up on JobTarget "unlimited" category definiton - DONE

MOTION by Wilson, seconded by Potter to approve pricing as set out in the pricing document. Passes

• Barr:
  • talk to MIT spam people - no report
  • php-list(?) mailer integration into Drupal - no report

• Harris:
  • Set up wiki for Resume Standards project [due 2/12] - DONE
  • Write up a list of needs for the Resume Standards project - DONE
  • Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority) - not done
  • Gather material for Halprin request [2/26] - not done

• Hughes:
  • Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on resume resources skeleton/framework (should have status by mid February) [due 2/19] - in progress

• Hume:
  • Chat with SNIA regarding possible partnering - not done
  • Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - not done

• Palmer:

• Parter:

• Perrine:
  • Perrine will work with Sam and Michele on "CONVERSION" of visitors to members - 'in progress Starting 2/19, first emails to go out by 3/5

• Potter:
  • Draft a new charter for the combined Development/Partnership committee - in progress

• Wilson:

• All:

Standing Reports

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

• Membership report
  • See the online report for this week's status

• Online report

The website had a couple of short (<30 minute) outages this week. One (at least) was due to very short notice datacenter power manipulations.

• Sysadmin Days report

Philly is on hold. We're waiting to hear from the organizers of the other event about possible cooperative opportunities.

• Development report

• Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)

Linuxfest Northwest?

Wilson will try to determine whether there's enough member interest to staff a booth.

Adjournment

MOTION to adjourn by Harris, seconded by Hume Passes; adjourned at 20:50ET