Board meeting Minutes/14 May 2007

Prior: 7 May 2007

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 21 May 2007

Minutes approved: 21 May 2007

Present

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

Apologies

Pat Wilson, Chris Palmer, Stephen Potter

Opened

8:07 Eastern Time

Closed

8:52 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 7 May 2007 PASSED

Action Items

Board Committees

• Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)

• Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
  • Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation - DONE
    • Albrecht recommends approval to partner with SCALE

MOTION: Albrecht will pursue agreement with SCALE

• Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)
  • Wilson - Query Committee regarding election logistics (how involved does the LC want to be in that?) - DONE

• Policy Committee (Harris)

• Communications Committee
  • Perrine - Follow up with SysAdmin Magazine regarding volunteers for online answer folks [due 3/20]

• Membership Committee
  • Parter - Set up retention-rate report - Due 5/28
  • Albrecht - Refresh conversion letter
  • Wilson - Look into quarterly member drawing prizes - not done

Program Committees

• Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)

• Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)
  • Perrine - Organize Sysadmin Day 2007 site update -- nothing to report, this week?
  • Perrine - Turn his lopsa-discuss posting on the CFV for Sysadmin Day into a post for the web page -- this week?
  • Barr - Follow up on tech-team php-list(?) mailer integration into Drupal

• 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 [due 5/7] (try for next week)

Non-Committee

• Financial
  • Hume - Provide at Dec 2006 Treasurer's report writeup for the Board and for the web site. Hume produced draft, minor revisions will be made by Hume and Perinne.
• Albrecht:
  • Provide status on IRS 501.c.3 status [due 4/9] - still waiting for update from IRS
  • Enquire whether SoCoSA would be interested in pursuing Chapter status

• Barr:

• Harris:
  • Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority)
  • Gather material for Halprin request [2/26]

(Harris phone not working)

• Hughes:
  • Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on consultant resources skeleton/framework [due 4/1]
  • Contact Gilbert Wilson about work-pay ideas -- had a discussion, he will submit some ideas

• Hume:
  • Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - [in progress; invite sent out; 2 replies so far]

• Palmer:

• Parter:

• Perrine:
  • Perrine will work with Sam and Michele on "CONVERSION" of visitors to members

• 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

• Online report

• Sysadmin Days report

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

• Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)

• Sysadmin Mag ad topic (fourth meeting of the month only)

Nickels letter

Free software from Micros$ft!! Weeeee!!!!

Albrecht to forward letter to SASAG and inform MS

New Business

Elections

• can host candidate statements and forum on lopsa.org
• candidates need to sign the NDA
• offer conference call for candidates and board
• tenative in-person board meeting in NJ sunday before or wed after Sysadmin Days