Board meeting Minutes/23 July 2007

Prior: 16 July 2007

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 5 August 2007

Minutes approved: 5 August 2007

Present

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

Apologies

Matthew Barr, Chris Palmer

Opened

20:06 Eastern Time

Closed

20:43 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 16 July 2007 Consent agenda passes.

Action Items

Board Committees

• Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)

• Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)

• Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)

• Policy Committee (Harris)

• Communications Committee

• Membership Committee
  • Hughes - Set up retention-rate report - not done
  • Hughes, Parter - Implement an appropriate opt-out mechanism for member opt-out policy - not done now due Aug 5th

Program Committees

• Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)

• Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)
  • Perrine - Organize Sysadmin Day 2007 site update - in progress Sysadmin Appreciation day is July 27th

• Content Services Committee (Palmer/Potter)
  • Albrecht - See if there are any other leads on CMP site content - in progress

Non-Committee

• Financial

• Albrecht:
  • Provide status on IRS 501(c)(3) status. - no news

• Barr:

• Harris:
  • Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority) - not done

• Hughes:
  • Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on consultant resources skeleton/framework [due 6/11] - not done
  • Contact Gilbert Wilson about work-pay ideas - no response drop this one

• Hume:
  • Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - in progress waiting for response

• Palmer:
  • Generate an email motion regarding the recommended Certificate of Amendment - no report may be waiting on Albrecht for details

• Parter:

• Perrine:

• 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

There seems to be some discrepancy between the summary table and the graph - Parter and Hughes will look into this. Recent upward surge may be due to the conversion letters now going out.

• Online report

• Sysadmin Days report

Registrations continue to come in, with more expected. The Crossbow group is working on nailing down the training at other upcoming venues.

• Development report (Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)

• Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)

New Business

Aug 5th meeting

Wiki page has been put up; Albrecht will draft an agenda. Staff is working on the attendee list; it appears that most of the old and new Boards will be attending in person.

Notes/announcements

First revenue from JobTarget has appeared.

No meeting on July 30th.

Adjournment

MOTION to adjourn by Harris, seconded by Potter Passes; adjourned at 20:43 ET