Board meeting Minutes/22 August 2017

Prior: 8 August 2017

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 5 September 2017

Minutes approved: 19 September 2017

• NOTICE to those on the line: All present agree to a temporary recording of this call to be be deleted no later than when the minutes are approved. Please speak up if you disagree with this and we will discuss it after roll call.

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Present

(Subject to verification) Paul English, Steve VanDevender, Atom Powers, Ray Frush, Thomas Uphill, Scott Suehle, Ski Kacoroski

Apologies

George Beech (chair), Brian Globerman

Guests

none

Opened

17:02

Closed

17:14

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 8 August 2017 - APPROVED

Standing Reports

Membership report (VanDevender)

• Total active members: 655 (previous report: 656, change: -1, pending renewal: 22)

• Paying: 350 (11 new in last 30 days)

• Non-paying: 305 (20 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 2018: (Vandevender,Kacoroski,Uphill,Globermann,English,Powers)

• Venue
  • Paul will contact SeaGL organizers re colocation
• CfP
• Marketing
• Sponsorship
• NOTE: We are reconsidering venue, timing - more or less everything with the loss of Deca for next year. We'll try to get options listed out so a decision could be made at the F2F

LISA 2017: (Vandevender,English, Beech)

• Steve sent them an email regarding discount & booth arrangements

Marketing/Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) (English, Uphill)

• Please help provide content for the next LOPSAgram
• Please blog on your LOPSA Blog

Leadership Committee (Warner, Kacoroski)

• NOTE: F2F scheduled for Sept 30, Raleigh

Adjournment

 Scott Suehle Motioned for Adjournment
 Board Member Seconded