Board meeting Minutes/14 August 2018

Requesting Board approval to switch to Wild Apricot's AffiniPay payment gateway (from PayPal): Wild Apricot Payments
- Advantages: 1. Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex supported, 2. We gain complete control of this account, 3. Can give up one of our checking accounts, saving $180/yr
- Disadvantages: 1. PayPal not supported, 2. Members having created recurring PayPal payments will have to recreate them using credit card details

Proposal to raise standard membership dues from $50 to $60/year

Aleksey will mention to Roger that we haven't had any donations this year; and encourage Roger to reach out. Roger can get help from Brian if he needs help getting the donors contact information from Wild Apricot. (Brian wants Roger to confirm if Roger can get this data.)

Brian proposed we switch from PayPal to AffiniPay

because we are locked out of our PayPal account, primarily
we may lose members that are set up to pay via Paypal
Scott will try to get an "in" at PayPal to help us regain access
Brian will check if we can have both PayPal AND AffiniPay (he thinks not)
Brian will check if we can go back to PayPal (i.e., *try* AffiniPay for a week)

Membership report (VanDevender)

Total active members: 641 (previous report: 636, change: 5, pending renewal: 15)

Paying: 301 (9 new in last 30 days)

Non-paying: 340 (11 new in last 30 days)

Paying members include Individual, Charter, Founding, and Lifetime memberships. Non-paying members include Student and Complimentary memberships. "Pending renewal" is a count of members whose memberships are due for renewal within 14 days.

Committee reports

Conferences/Events (Adams)

Conferences and events - Drew - Big Data LA booth went sideways.

 - Drew didn't have the booth box
 - we didn't coordinate with the volunteer
 - we had an empty booth (no stuff, no volunteer)
 - Drew will talk to Aleksey to try to understand where this went off the rails

Marketing/Communications (Tsalolikhin)

LOPSAGram is every month now
Roger published the O'Reilly deal in the last LOPSAGram

Technical Services (White)

AT will ask Roger to report on how is it going with the Mattermost instance, and do we want to make it long term, if so, the Tech Team needs to be brought in the loop

Education, Training and Mentorship (Cowell)

55 Total Users

Role breakdown:
- 42 Protege
- 13 Mentor
Registration status:
- 20 have not completed their registration
- 27 have completed their registration
- 8 have completed their registration but are not approved (not members)

Currently paired:

5 mentors
6 mentees

Other notes:

participation is low (6 mentees) given the 4K/year outlay
Drew suggested we promote it more widely on social media
AT to ask Roger to add a splash banner for the mentorship program,

and to remove the splash banner for the SRECon that happened in June

Andy will write an appeal to members to promote the Mentorship Pgm
all board members will promote the Mentorship Pgm on social media

Recognition (Beech)

No report

Leadership (Tsalolikhin)

AT to make sure new incoming Board members sign NDAs
AT to post agenda for 28th meeting (old board; new board)

Locals/Chapters (Tsalolikhin)

AT to ask for a volunteer to help run the Locals program
Seattle area chapter has been having monthly meetings. 29th of July, about 12 people showed up for Sysadmin Day lunch
Columbus chapter had an event for Sysadmin Day too

Board meeting Minutes/14 August 2018

Contents

Consent Agenda

Standing Reports

Treasurer's report (Globerman, Beech, Suehle)