Board meeting Minutes/22 September 2009

Prior: 8 September 2009

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 20 October 2009

Minutes approved: 20 October 2009

Present

Trey Harris (chair), Derek Balling, Lois Bennett, Ski Kacoroski, Philip Kizer, Dan Rich, Deepa Solanki

Absent

David Parter, Jesse Trucks,

Apologies

Travis Campbell,

Opened

20:37pm Eastern Time

Closed

21:30pm Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Record email motion: That the Membership Chair has the approval to implement the following membership discount promotions:

  9/21 - 9/27: LinuxCon and OLF Discounts. Join LOPSA during the LinuxCon or OLF conferences for $40 and get a free tee shirt.

  10/24-10/25: Two day sale. Join LOPSA during the ABLEconf conference weekend for $40 and get a free tee shirt.

  10/31 - 11/6: Join LOPSA during the LISA conference for $40 and get a free tee shirt.

Standing Reports

• Executive Director's report

• Treasurer's report (second meeting of the month only)
  • ACTION ITEM; forward financials for April/May/June for wiki posting. - DONE

• Membership report

• Technical services report

• Conference/events activities report

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

• Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)

Comp Memberships (Lois)

• Discussion question can we consider offering comp membership for major volunteers who are known to be needy?
  • ACTION ITEM: Solanki to poll staff for their feedback.

LISA

• Badge holders - Do we want to order LOPSA logo holders or can we use vertical ribbons that we have in stock.
• Check ribbon stock esp "Board" ribbons

ACTION ITEM: Gentile to check ribbon stock and report back to board.

• Need to order volunteer tees for LISA. Tee color pending.

Adjournment

• Adjourned 9:30pm EST. Motioned by Harris. Seconded by Bennett.