Board meeting Minutes/13 Dec 2016

Prior: 29 Nov 2016

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 27 Dec 2016

Minutes approved: 8 Feb 2017

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(Subject to verification) John Boris, Steve VanDevender, Ski Kacoroski, Thomas Uphill, Paul English, Atom Powers,

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George Beech (chair),, Brian Globerman, Scott Suehle

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Opened

21:00 Eastern Time

Closed

21:23 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 29 Nov 2016 Minutes approved: 29 Nov 2016
• Approve minutes of 15 Nov 2016 Minutes approved: 15 Nov 2016

Action Items

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Standing Reports

Treasurer's report (Brian, Kacoroski)

Balance Info:

• BoA Accounts: $36,355.77
• PayPal Account: $12,667.15
• TDBank Account: Closed, remaining funds transferred to new Bank of America account
• Total: $49,022.92 +/- from last report (11/29/2016): +$1014.90

Membership report (VanDevender)

• Total active members: 685 (previous report: 666, change: 19)

• Paying: 419 (12 new in last 30 days)

• Non-paying: 266 (9 new in last 30 days)

Paying members include Individual, Charter, Founding, and Lifetime memberships. Non-paying members include Student and Complimentary memberships.

Committee reports

Conferences/Events/Chapters activities report (Powers)

LOPSA Cascadia 2017: March 10,11. Contract cutoff:(?) (Kacoroski,Uphill,Globermann,English,Powers)

• Atom: 17 submissions so far - we need more, but we usually get a surge in the last week, so we will probably be okay
• Ski: got contact from Microsoft that will most likely submit a Training
• Paul: I submitted to wikicfp.com, couldn't log in to lanyrd.com - will try again. wikicfp suggested by Matt Simmons. Ski: It doesn't seem to show up on wikicfp. Paul: I will look into it.

LOPSA East 2017 (Boris)

• Still waiting on venue.
• Thomas: will put people in touch with John to help

Mentorship Report (Boris, Beech)

• At Lisa we spoke with
  • the Linux Professional Institue. They are interested in partnering with us and our Mentorship program. I spoke to were G Matthew Rice (mrice@lpi.org) and Jasmina Jocic (jjocic@lpi.org) and Jon “maddog” Hall. A good group of people.
  • A professor from Florida State University about getting his System Administration Class signed up with us as student members. I also sent him our Code of Ethics for his Summer Course.

Recognition (Uphill)

• First challenge coin given to Alexsey.
• What are we going to do for the others?
• Give some to sponsors
• How do we get the 10 year pin to all our 10 year people?

Leadership Committee (Warner, Kacoroski)

• Warner will lead the committee again this year for elections.
• Up for re-election: Atom, Paul, Ski, John

Adjournment

 Ski Motioned for Adjournment
 Thomas Seconded