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2015 Election Results

2015-07-02T15:51:10Z

Ski:

The 2015 LOPSA election was conducted as it has been in the past. Votes are automatically collected by software run by Matt Okeson-Harlow and at the end of the election are captured and processed by the Meek single transferable vote method. The software is available at http://www.openstv.org (although I just did a ‘yum install openstv’)and if you'd like to run the election yourself, the raw ballots are presented below.I used version 1.7 of OpenSTV.

For a more detailed explanation of the overall method, please see Greg Rose's exemplary notes at http://lopsa.org/Election2005. Other material may be found at http://www.openstv.org and Wikipedia. The abbreviated summary for this election follows below.

Andrew Hume

__TOC__

==Election Results ==
Election title: LOPSA Vote 2015
Method: Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold
Number of total ballots: 77
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 0
Number of ballots used in the count: 77
6 candidate running for 4 seats.

{| {{prettytable}}
!Round 1:
| Candidate Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 2:
| Candidate Atom Powers '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 3:
| Candidate William Bilancio '''elected'''.
|--
!Rounds 4-5:
| Transferring surplus votes and candidate Mark Honomichl eliminated.
|--
!Round 6:
| Candidate Paul English '''elected'''.
The election is over since all seats are filled.
Nicholas Brenckle is not elected
|}
'''Winners are Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Atom Powers, William Bilancio, and Paul English

== Method of tabulation ==

To understand the above results, please see:

* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/Single_Transferable_Vote single transferable vote preferential system]
* The [[2005_Election_Results#Explanation_of_tabulation|explanation from the 2005 Election Results]]

== Ballots ==
The ballots are available for public examination in the standard BLT format of the Electoral Reform Society.

The data is:
<pre>
The votes in BLT format (md5=15351fdca7ba922b90abdf5f4b6f08b7)
6 4
1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 1 5 2 6 4 3 0
1 4 2 3 6 5 1 0
1 6 0
1 5 1 6 2 3 4 0
1 2 5 6 0
1 5 2 6 4 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 3 4 5 6 2 1 0
1 6 1 0
1 1 6 2 3 5 4 0
1 4 6 2 5 0
1 1 5 0
1 5 1 0
1 5 2 4 0
1 5 6 1 0
1 3 5 2 4 6 1 0
1 5 4 6 2 3 1 0
1 5 3 6 1 2 0
1 6 2 5 3 4 1 0
1 3 5 4 2 6 1 0
1 1 6 5 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 6 1 3 2 4 5 0
1 5 3 2 4 6 1 0
1 2 6 5 3 4 1 0
1 5 4 2 6 3 1 0
1 6 4 2 1 3 5 0
1 1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 2 4 1 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 1 2 3 0
1 4 5 6 3 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 5 4 1 2 3 6 0
1 5 4 1 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 0
1 5 2 4 1 6 3 0
1 6 1 5 0
1 6 5 3 4 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 0
1 3 6 2 5 4 1 0
1 5 2 1 4 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 2 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 1 6 2 5 3 4 0
1 6 2 1 4 5 3 0
1 6 3 2 1 4 5 0
1 5 1 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 4 2 3 1 6 0
1 5 6 4 3 2 1 0
1 5 3 1 6 0
1 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1 1 5 4 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 5 6 3 2 4 1 0
1 5 2 3 1 0
1 6 1 2 5 4 3 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 2 6 5 1 3 4 0
1 3 6 5 2 1 4 0
1 5 4 6 1 2 3 0
1 5 1 6 4 2 0
1 4 3 2 5 1 6 0
1 5 6 3 2 1 4 0
1 6 1 4 2 5 3 0
1 6 5 2 0
1 6 3 2 5 4 0
1 5 3 1 6 2 4 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 5 1 6 3 2 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 3 2 6 5 4 1 0
1 1 2 4 5 6 3 0
1 5 1 4 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 1 5 6 4 2 3 0
0
"William Bilancio"
"Paul English"
"Nicholas Brenckle"
"Mark Honomichl"
"Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski"
"Atom Powers"
"LOPSA Vote 2015"
</pre>

2015 Election Results

2015-07-02T15:47:18Z

Ski:

The 2015 LOPSA election was conducted as it has been in the past. Votes are automatically collected by software run by Matt Okeson-Harlow and at the end of the election are captured and processed by the Meek single transferable vote method. The software is available at http://www.openstv.org (although I just did a ‘yum install openstv’)and if you'd like to run the election yourself, the raw ballots are presented below.I used version 1.7 of OpenSTV.

For a more detailed explanation of the overall method, please see Greg Rose's exemplary notes at http://lopsa.org/Election2005. Other material may be found at http://www.openstv.org and Wikipedia. The abbreviated summary for this election follows below.

Andrew Hume

__TOC__

==Election Results ==
Election title: LOPSA Vote 2015
Method: Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold
Number of total ballots: 77
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 0
Number of ballots used in the count: 77
6 candidate running for 4 seats.

{| {{prettytable}}
!Round 1:
| Candidate Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 2:
| Candidate Atom Powers '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 3:
| Candidate William Bilancio '''elected'''.
|--
|Rounds 4-5:
| Transferring surplus votes and candidate Mark Honomichl eliminated.
|--
|Round 6:
| Candidate Paul English '''elected'''.
|-
The election is over since all seats are filled.
Nicholas Brenckle is not elected
|}
'''Winners are Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Atom Powers, William Bilancio, and Paul English

== Method of tabulation ==

To understand the above results, please see:

* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/Single_Transferable_Vote single transferable vote preferential system]
* The [[2005_Election_Results#Explanation_of_tabulation|explanation from the 2005 Election Results]]

== Ballots ==
The ballots are available for public examination in the standard BLT format of the Electoral Reform Society.

The data is:
<pre>
The votes in BLT format (md5=15351fdca7ba922b90abdf5f4b6f08b7)
6 4
1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 1 5 2 6 4 3 0
1 4 2 3 6 5 1 0
1 6 0
1 5 1 6 2 3 4 0
1 2 5 6 0
1 5 2 6 4 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 3 4 5 6 2 1 0
1 6 1 0
1 1 6 2 3 5 4 0
1 4 6 2 5 0
1 1 5 0
1 5 1 0
1 5 2 4 0
1 5 6 1 0
1 3 5 2 4 6 1 0
1 5 4 6 2 3 1 0
1 5 3 6 1 2 0
1 6 2 5 3 4 1 0
1 3 5 4 2 6 1 0
1 1 6 5 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 6 1 3 2 4 5 0
1 5 3 2 4 6 1 0
1 2 6 5 3 4 1 0
1 5 4 2 6 3 1 0
1 6 4 2 1 3 5 0
1 1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 2 4 1 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 1 2 3 0
1 4 5 6 3 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 5 4 1 2 3 6 0
1 5 4 1 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 0
1 5 2 4 1 6 3 0
1 6 1 5 0
1 6 5 3 4 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 0
1 3 6 2 5 4 1 0
1 5 2 1 4 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 2 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 1 6 2 5 3 4 0
1 6 2 1 4 5 3 0
1 6 3 2 1 4 5 0
1 5 1 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 4 2 3 1 6 0
1 5 6 4 3 2 1 0
1 5 3 1 6 0
1 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1 1 5 4 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 5 6 3 2 4 1 0
1 5 2 3 1 0
1 6 1 2 5 4 3 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 2 6 5 1 3 4 0
1 3 6 5 2 1 4 0
1 5 4 6 1 2 3 0
1 5 1 6 4 2 0
1 4 3 2 5 1 6 0
1 5 6 3 2 1 4 0
1 6 1 4 2 5 3 0
1 6 5 2 0
1 6 3 2 5 4 0
1 5 3 1 6 2 4 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 5 1 6 3 2 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 3 2 6 5 4 1 0
1 1 2 4 5 6 3 0
1 5 1 4 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 1 5 6 4 2 3 0
0
"William Bilancio"
"Paul English"
"Nicholas Brenckle"
"Mark Honomichl"
"Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski"
"Atom Powers"
"LOPSA Vote 2015"
>/pre>

2015 Election Results

2015-07-02T15:46:14Z

Ski: Created page with "The 2015 LOPSA election was conducted as it has been in the past. Votes are automatically collected by software run by Matt Okeson-Harlow and at the end of the election are ca..."

The 2015 LOPSA election was conducted as it has been in the past. Votes are automatically collected by software run by Matt Okeson-Harlow and at the end of the election are captured and processed by the Meek single transferable vote method. The software is available at http://www.openstv.org (although I just did a ‘yum install openstv’)and if you'd like to run the election yourself, the raw ballots are presented below.I used version 1.7 of OpenSTV.

For a more detailed explanation of the overall method, please see Greg Rose's exemplary notes at http://lopsa.org/Election2005. Other material may be found at http://www.openstv.org and Wikipedia. The abbreviated summary for this election follows below.

Andrew Hume

__TOC__

==Election Results ==
Election title: LOPSA Vote 2015
Method: Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold
Number of total ballots: 77
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 0
Number of ballots used in the count: 77
6 candidate running for 4 seats.

{| {{prettytable}}
!Round 1:
| Candidate Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 2:
| Candidate Atom Powers '''elected'''.
|--
!Round 3: Candidate William Bilancio '''elected'''.
|--
|Rounds 4-5: Transferring surplus votes and candidate Mark Honomichl eliminated.
|--
|Round 6: Candidate Paul English '''elected'''.
|-
The election is over since all seats are filled.
Nicholas Brenckle is not elected
|}
'''Winners are Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Atom Powers, William Bilancio, and Paul English

== Method of tabulation ==

To understand the above results, please see:

* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/Single_Transferable_Vote single transferable vote preferential system]
* The [[2005_Election_Results#Explanation_of_tabulation|explanation from the 2005 Election Results]]

== Ballots ==
The ballots are available for public examination in the standard BLT format of the Electoral Reform Society.

The data is:
<pre>
The votes in BLT format (md5=15351fdca7ba922b90abdf5f4b6f08b7)
6 4
1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 1 5 2 6 4 3 0
1 4 2 3 6 5 1 0
1 6 0
1 5 1 6 2 3 4 0
1 2 5 6 0
1 5 2 6 4 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 3 4 5 6 2 1 0
1 6 1 0
1 1 6 2 3 5 4 0
1 4 6 2 5 0
1 1 5 0
1 5 1 0
1 5 2 4 0
1 5 6 1 0
1 3 5 2 4 6 1 0
1 5 4 6 2 3 1 0
1 5 3 6 1 2 0
1 6 2 5 3 4 1 0
1 3 5 4 2 6 1 0
1 1 6 5 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 6 1 3 2 4 5 0
1 5 3 2 4 6 1 0
1 2 6 5 3 4 1 0
1 5 4 2 6 3 1 0
1 6 4 2 1 3 5 0
1 1 5 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 2 4 1 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 1 2 3 0
1 4 5 6 3 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 5 4 1 2 3 6 0
1 5 4 1 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 0
1 5 2 4 1 6 3 0
1 6 1 5 0
1 6 5 3 4 2 1 0
1 5 6 2 0
1 3 6 2 5 4 1 0
1 5 2 1 4 3 6 0
1 5 6 4 2 1 3 0
1 5 2 3 6 4 1 0
1 1 6 2 5 3 4 0
1 6 2 1 4 5 3 0
1 6 3 2 1 4 5 0
1 5 1 2 3 4 6 0
1 5 4 2 3 1 6 0
1 5 6 4 3 2 1 0
1 5 3 1 6 0
1 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1 1 5 4 3 2 6 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 5 6 3 2 4 1 0
1 5 2 3 1 0
1 6 1 2 5 4 3 0
1 5 6 2 3 4 1 0
1 2 6 5 1 3 4 0
1 3 6 5 2 1 4 0
1 5 4 6 1 2 3 0
1 5 1 6 4 2 0
1 4 3 2 5 1 6 0
1 5 6 3 2 1 4 0
1 6 1 4 2 5 3 0
1 6 5 2 0
1 6 3 2 5 4 0
1 5 3 1 6 2 4 0
1 5 6 2 4 3 1 0
1 5 1 6 3 2 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 3 2 6 5 4 1 0
1 1 2 4 5 6 3 0
1 5 1 4 0
1 5 1 2 6 4 3 0
1 1 5 6 4 2 3 0
0
"William Bilancio"
"Paul English"
"Nicholas Brenckle"
"Mark Honomichl"
"Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski"
"Atom Powers"
"LOPSA Vote 2015"
>/pre>

Main Page

2015-07-02T15:28:45Z

Ski:

= LOPSA Governance Documents =

This site contains documents released by the Board of Directors of the League of Professional System Administrators to its members and the public.

__NOTOC__
== News ==
* [https://lopsa.org/lopsagram LOPSA Memo to Members archive (LOPSAGram)]
* [[Minutes | LOPSA Board meeting Minutes]]

== Sponsorship ==
* [http://lopsa.org/Sponsorships LOPSA Sponsorship Levels and Benefits]

== Governance documents ==
* [[LOPSA Bylaws]]
* [[LOPSA Policies]]
* [[2005 Financial Statement]]

== Board of Directors Election Results ==
* [[2015 Election Results]]
* [[2014 Election Results]]
* [[2013 Election Results]]
* [[2012 Election Results]]
* [[2011 Election Results]]
* [[2009 Election Results]]
* [[2007 Election Results]]
* [[2005 Election Results]]

An [[2005 Candidates' Info Packet|information packet]] was provided to candidates and the public prior to the election.

{{blockquote}}
'''NOTE:''' This site is ''not'' sponsored by SAGE or the USENIX Association. Use of the word "SAGE" in this site is largely historical. We will be removing inappropriate references to "SAGE" shortly.
{{end blockquote}}

Board meeting Minutes/17 Dec 2012

2013-04-01T15:40:04Z

Ski: moved Board meeting Minutes/17 Dec 2012 to Board meeting Minutes/OLD17Dec2012: Incorrrect page

#REDIRECT [[Board meeting Minutes/OLD17Dec2012]]

Board meeting Minutes

2013-04-01T15:09:07Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2013 ==
* {{m|11 Mar 2013}}
* {{m|25 Feb 2013}}
* {{m|11 Feb 2013}}
* {{m|28 Jan 2013}}
* {{m|14 Jan 2013}}
== 2012 ==
* 17 Dec 2012 Minutes waiting cleanup - Will be up in 2 weeks
* 3 Dec Minutes waiting approval - Will be up in 2 weeks
* {{m|19 Nov 2012}}
* {{m|5 Nov 2012}}
* {{m|22 Oct 2012}}
* {{m|8 Oct 2012}}
* {{m|24 Sep 2012}}
* {{m|10 Sep 2012}}
* {{m|25-26 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|25 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|30 July 2012}}
* {{m|16 July 2012}}
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/30 July 2012

2013-03-27T04:17:26Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=16 July 2012|after=13 Aug 2012}}

{{minutes approved|13 Aug 2012}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Lois Bennett, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Nadine Miller

;Apologies: Ski Kacoroski, Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 0906 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0943 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|16 July 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** We picked up a lot of new memberships/renewals due to sysadmin days promotion.
** 990 ready to be submitted
** We still have not received a check for the conferences earlier this year. This is waiting on the resolution of a difference with the hotel.

* Membership report
** 870 members - thanks to William, Dan, and Ski for finding the paypal problem and going through the pending payments to approve them
** 33 lapsed members in July, 202 YTD (nearly 1/4 of our membership has lapsed this year -- this is a *big* problem)
** 252 new members, 35 renewals YTD

* Technical services report
** On track to be moved over by end of August

* Conference/events activities report
** Ski at USENIX security conference

* Mentorship Status report
** Raffle is set up, not looking for any more prizes at this time

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Philip answering questions from a report on system admins

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Next LC call 6-Aug - Dan



== Sys Admin Appreciation Day Lessons Learned (DISNEY) ==
* Earlier planning with locals
* Better social media presence
* Daily messaging
* Specific plan for each activity/day and specific assignments
* Collecting notes on the board wiki.
* May need to start much earlier to get corporate america aware of it

== Diversity Discussion ==
Discussion on harassment and diversity policies. We need to make it clear that we support diversity and tolerance in everything (platforms, people, race, etc.). Plan to discuss more at Face to Face meeting.

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn at 0943 by Jesse, seconded by Dan

Board meeting Minutes/8 Oct 2012

2013-03-27T04:16:46Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=24 Sep 2012|after=22 Oct 2012}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Ski Kacoroski, Dan Rich, John Boris, Martin Gehrke

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey,

;Opened: 20:02 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:47 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|25 Aug 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|25-26 Aug 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

* Everyone needs to be reviewing the custserv and board cases and taking them! (and/or deleting the spam)
* Too many tickets without owners. Voicemail needs to be picked up. William suggested that Philip take Ticket#641
Martin will look into #625. William asked again that we all keep an eye on our ticketsthe Cutomer Service queue
Rubi Bedrunin had questions about Locals in Europe. Philip will get the info to Martin.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Next report will be after vacation is over
* Membership report
** Martin asked how much is involved in getting the gift membership working. Dan is looking into that.
* Technical services report
** We are on the new server. A conference call meeting is planned with the Tech Team to talk about direction and break up of duties. They are ready to kill the bitpusher servers. Jesse has started the bps started and needs to get some paperwork to get it rolling. They hope to start redesigning the entire site.
* Conference/events activities report
** William gave status on LOPSA-East. Evan Pettrey has been selected as the Co-Chair for LOPSA-East and next years Chair. <s>Evan is [unclear]</s>
** Sponsorship package for LOPSA-East is out. CFPs for Cascadia and LOPSA-East are out. Cascadia's web site is up and working.
** OLF went well. It ran the same time as the Ohio Comicon was on and the table had some interesting visitors. Still waiting to hear back from SCALE.
* Mentorship Status report
** The Team is still working on their automation and getting ready to launch at LISA.
** William asked about a mentorship email with a name he wasn't familiar with.
** Jesse mentioned how work was being delegated.
** Lawrence Chen is a member of the LMPT.
** John asked about getting notified about the Google hangouts. John will double check about being on the list.
* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
* Communications
Ski spoke about getting the LOPSA Gram. He is meeting with Julie about LISA. He asked for input from the board for LISA. He is getting other social media reports together
* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Dan and Parter have been trying to set up a regular meeting. They have been exchanging emails and Dan has been forwarding contact info to Parter so he can continue to build his list of candidates.

== Chapter Approval Process... (Ski) ==
There are different interpretations of how to approve a provisional chapter (gray area in policy). This item is to clear up this gray area and decide on a clear process.
Ski asked Martin to speak on his Draft policy and he has it in front of the committee and is waiting to hear from them before it gets put to the board.
William thinks a Chapter is a Chapter whether provisional or regular and needs to be voted on by the board before we announce. IRC is not the place to take the vote and email is legal here in NJ. The vote should be taken at a meeting or out into an email.
Jesse explained the intent of his email. He wants to remove barriers and speed up the process. A Chapter doing things in our name can strengthen or ruin our name. The new chapter understands that it is a binding agreement. He agrees that the policy needed reworking and commends Martin for taking on the task. He welcomes the changes but until official we should follow our current guidelines.
John commented that he felt it look like it was a bit rushed and that two weeks is not a long length of time to wait for a wait. Take the vote at the board meeting and if that can't happen then put it to a vote in an email.

Martin asked that we make a decision on what the current policy states and lets clear up the grey area and come up with an agreed understanding until we get the new policy in place.

The policy is mute on a vote. The policy states that only a review is needed that there is no need for a vote.

Jesse showed that the provisional chapter is mentioned how to become a regular chapter but it does not say it needs approval and the board has felt that the rules for a regular chapter applied to the provisional where it would have to be approved.

Martin read the policy that "After review the regular chapter would be put on the board agenda for vote." A regular chapter requires a vote and Jesse feels that the provisional chapter should follow the same rule. Maybe this can be delegated but until this can be put into the new policy it should be voted on.

Ski noticed a big distinction between greybeards and young guys coming up and we should try and speed things up as long as we don't open ourselves up for problems. Philip agrees and will hold his comments.

Martin feels that the Provisional status is a one line that just mentions that a Provisional Chapter can be granted. He feels it was just tacked on at the end.

William feels that we (the board) should vote on the provisional chapters as they come under insurance policy and it is our brand. The committee can say "Yes this is a good chapter" with all of the data and the board approves that.

Jesse feels that where the provisional chapter line shows up one can look at everything that describes how a Regular chapter begins, operates etc. a provisional chapter can be seen the same thing as a Regular chapter except it has less members for the first year. He feels we do need to vote on provisional chapters.

Philip commented that wholly objective criteria is used to define a Regular/provisional chapter and is there any subjective data that the board has to see. If there is only a check list to become a chapter than we are micromanaging the process. Going from a Provisional to a Regular chapter there are subjective data we would need to see that they are viable, have enough members are doing things. Although we told them they are

Martin motioned that the Board vote on the LOPSA-DC Chapter.
Ski Seconded the motion.
Dan amends the motion that we approve the LOPSA-DC chapter as a provisional chapter.
No objections so the motion passes.

Martin answered about waiting two weeks. There is a lot of steps and processes that the Chapter goes through to get rolling. (List servs, Domain Names etc) He wants to give them as much support as possible and after they gain that momentum getting things rolling and then have to wait another two weeks to get LOPSA support seems to be put a damper on that momentum.

Jesse stated that a successful chapter takes a lot of time and effort, if waiting for two weeks to get the official approval is too much than the person is not doing good planning and maybe we should allow a faster process. E-mail may be fast enough. He feels if they can't wait the two weeks for something that is long lasting and hopefully years they may not be thinking it through correctly and they may need more guidance.

John feels that this group has to have meetings and during that time they should have been in discussion with us and they are not just waking up and saying "Lets become a chapter." So two weeks should not be a long wait.

Martin passed.

Ski stated that IEEE requires a board vote, ACM farms it out to the head of the Chapter Committee so it is either way how to create a chapter. He feels we that either way is fine.

Jesse agrees with Ski. The requirements, process and approval process should be clear. he is in favor of making the process easier and smoother. We still need to vote on the chapters until the policy is finalized.

Matt adds that the riskier part of the Chapter is down the road. Once we have history with a Chapter is where we should have squared away policies with appropriate deal with problematic chapters. He feels that is much more important than approving new chapters.

Martin responded that we can strengthen the clauses but there is a revocation portion in the policy. It is a bit generic.

Philip stated that it should be generic as there are some discussions about other policies and it would not be correct to have to modify the policy each time a new issue comes up.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned for adjournment.
Dan, William seconded the motion. 20:47

Board meeting Minutes/22 Oct 2012

2013-03-27T04:16:32Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=8 Oct 2012|after=5 Nov 2012}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:02 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:35 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* On Hold

== Action Items ==

* Dan asked again to go through the unowned tickets and if it is in your area take ownership.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt has been working on the 990s and will review them after the meeting.
** Discussion about the various accounts, account use preference and finishing individual authorization on them.

* Membership report
* Dan restates we need more members and the lapsed members continues to go up. He has to get on the membership project to see how we can energize the lapsed members to rejoin.

* Technical services report
** William says we are on the Server Beach servers. We are still live on BitPusher's and they haven't responded to our tickets. he will take care of that tomorrow.
** Jesse will have the Tech Team start on the Backup dev server by the end of next week we should have the dev site set up. hopefully it will not take longer.
** Evan reports on final financial obligations with the old provider. William verified that there is no traffic going to the old provider. He will put another ticket.
** Philip asked if we did enough SRMs and stuff to do a halt. William said we could but he rather have them turn off the server.

* Conference/events activities report

** William just got an email from elliam and he has to get back to them. They want us to do training we are trying to get the Deeppacket guy and we may need two or three more. He will touch base with him about Scale.
** LOPSA-East is moving along and the CFPs are out and they are looking for sponsors. Things are moving fine.
** Cascadia is moving but they have not needed to talk in the last week.
** William commented they are looking for sponsors. He is trying to get Solar Winds to sponsor more than the locals. Solar Winds share some historical anecdotes regarding previous conferences. William emphasized we have a lot of Windows Talks and tutorials so he hopes this will help.

* Mentorship Status report
Jesse spoke with Thomas Leyer about a Co-Chair. The new program is very close to launching the new automation. Jesse has to do some editing on the scripts and web stuff. At Thursday's meeting they will hammer out the details. they plan to be ready two weeks prior to LISA. If they are ready they will work with Ski to get the word out and would want to talk at LISA to make the announcement. The LMPT members that are at LISA will also have a BoF. This is kept low key until they are ready to make the move. The LMPT are working on a more long term regular multi pronged marketing effort to get more interest in the program so less people will be able to handle the program.

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Most of these topics are discussed in other topics. Philip has first draft of an harassment policy on Google Docs. He has two other documents that he will merge with it and will take any contributions other board members have.

* Communications
** Nothing new to report.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** D. Rich will report back in a few days with status.

== LISA 2012... (SKI) ==
* Go through the wiki page and see what we need to do.
* William asked if we were on the $40 cost for membership. Most believed that was now active.
* Ski reports that on the LISA page we have a shipping address. He assumes we will do the Squared thing to handle on site payments. He will have his Square device. D.Rich reported that PayPal has their Dongle available. William suggested that Evan order us a PayPal Dongle. D. Rich questioned if we could have more than one account on the PayPal app.

=== Ideas For LISA '12 (put all brainstorming ideas here for LISA'12) ===
* A suggestion for previous LISAs was that "someone" sponsor a LISA "First Timers" BoF. This is separate from the night-before first day Tutorials introduction session but might be a good thing to do on Tuesday night, the night before the Technical Sessions under the LOPSA banner. Recording here to move it from my private notes.
* Best Photo contest
* New member sign up contest
* Ski solicited more comments on the ideas.
* Philip is brain storming for a LOPSA After Dark. Ski says the Hotel site is not close to anywhere and we would have to travel to anything. So Ski is going to call the Hotel to see what is available in the Bar area. Taxis might be a way but it will be difficult. Nothing is in walking distance to the Hotel. Everyone agrees it is a bad spot. Ski is looking for a place that might hold about 30 people. He will set up a meeting with the USENIX board. LOPSA Live is Scheduled. William asked to push for Volunteers. Ski assigned shipping stuff to LISA. William confirmed stickers, banners, luggage tags, table cloths. We don't have generic business cards. We have the photo frame. Everything will be shipped out when he gets the shipping acceptance date.
Ski asked Dan to redo the Picture Frame pictures. Dan says we few corporate sponsors. We have to make sure we don't leave off any personal sponsors , especially Lee Damon. All sponsors need to be in Civi.
* Yerkes award: Philip heading committee to finalize. SKi asked if the Yerkes winner has to be a LOPSA Member. Philip confirmed that the winner does not have to be a LOPSA Member.
* Jesse asked Ski about getting a spot for the LMPT at the regular meeting and a space for a BoF. They need 3 minutes to announce the program, point people to the site and announce the BoF. Ski said it is on the agenda and asked the board to review the agenda. A few tried to coerce William to drive out there. Not many Board members will attend. Ski and Philip will handle the presentation.
* Ski asked for Board members to give a small write up about their area. If anything else that needs to be on the agenda please add it.

===Project Management ===
* Jesse said the default agenda needs to be edited. He will be putting together a report later this week so the status of the projects is the same. It will go out in an email to the board.

=== Mentorship Swag Request ===
* Jesse mentions that the Chair for the LMPT asked if we have any LOPSA Swag to send the Volunteers to the Board. William said to send him the addresses and he will send them what he has. He has a lot of Luggage tags and will gladly send some out. Philip mentioned he has Cisco books and can use them. he may bring some to LISA. William suggested shipping them.

=== Local Chapter Policy ===
* Philip queried Martin about progress on the Locals Policy.
* Martin sent out a request for comments from the committee and wants to know the next step. It is not ready for the board to review and will give it another week and then get it on the wiki for review.

== Adjournment ==
Jesse motioned for adjournment seconded by William
8:35 PM

Board meeting Minutes/5 Nov 2012

2013-03-27T04:16:18Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=22 Oct 2012|after=19 Nov 2012}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Evan Pettrey, John Boris, Jesse Trucks

;Apologies: Dan Rich

;Opened: 20:01 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:42 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* On hold

== Action Items ==
* In Dan's absence Ski and William said they have to review their tickets and close them.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt completed the work on the 990s. Evan is not sure if they have been accepted. He is starting to adjust the accounts. Filings have been accepted and we are awaiting status. He mentioned about waiting about a month to play it safe. Evan has the insurance information. Evan needs to know what has to be done to officially close the previous account. Philip will coordinate with Matt and Evan to get things officially signed.

* Membership report
** Philip asked for any info on membership in Dan's absence. Martin has nothing to report.

* Technical services report
** William has nothing. Jesse says that the Backup test server will be built soon. He doesn't see any problems. The big test will be at LISA and Cascadia and PICC (LOPSA-East). Dan did not get the membership renewal thing fixed. Jesse reported a recent problem with the membership tech. The problem was a pointer to the wrong database. William noted after the fix the reload of the page is faster. Jesse commented on the slow speed NJ suffers on the net. William noted that even with the filtering the pages did load faster.

* Conference/events activities report
** William reported that LISA is coming up (Ski) LOPSA-East has CFPs are out and they end on the 29th. Please get your papers in. Cascadia is looking for Sponsors and Papers and trainers. William could not contact SCaLE due to Sandy. William asked Ski to see if we can get the Wireshark class from last year (it was dumped due to a storm). Ski acknowledged and would check on that. There was a big sign up and due to the large Seattle Ice storm it was cancelled.

* Mentorship Status report
** Jesse stated LMPT is making progress and they are on target. The web pages are being corrected and sanity checks of the automation and web pages. It has to be finished by the end of the month to allow for people going to LISA will have enough time to prepare. Jesse told Ski that LMPT should be ready for LISA for the big announcement. They will not make the announcement if it is not ready. LMPT will keep Ski posted about announcing the new automation.

* Communications report
** LinkedIn ads - summary. Need to refresh the ad. Ski feels it is getting our name out there.
** Also have coupon for Google Ads. Ski will do the same with that as he did in LinkedIn.
** He will start posting requests for Local Group meetings. Ski will start some Twitter about locals as Martin asked for his so he figured he would do it for all. LOPSAGram is going out tonight.
** Matt Simmons may have found a Volunteer to do the LOPSAGram.
** Ski asked about needed ad details which are still not available and will sort out the disconnect.
** William asked Ski if Warren if Ohio Columbus chapter got in touch with him. Ski responded that he did and they sent over a lot of info for the LOPSAGram.

* Project Management report
** Jesse stated we had a few things finished. He expects to have a report by the end of the week. Everyone has been moving along without any harassment. The locals have been doing great. Hopefully Martin will get his policy ready for review. Our goals are not very aggressive but he hopes after we get over some delays we can get a bit more aggressive. We are doing a lot for foundations. He feels we are not thinking big enough. He is worried about the lapsing members. He hopes that we are steering in the right direction and not drifting astray.
Philip asked if he is pinging Jesse enough. Jesse agreed.

== LISA Prep... (Ski) ==
* LOPSA After Dark. The hotel reports that our options are really limited. Philip is mailing some local contacts for suggestions. In lieu of nothing nearby maybe setting up in one of the bar areas. Ski suggested bringing something in to a room or the lobby. Matt mentioned about the high cost of bringing in food. Maybe have a longer meeting or BoF, have a break out group. Also maybe get a sponsor for the meeting. He thinks we had about 100 at the last one. So maybe it would be worth it for a sponsor. Ski said he could try it. William asked if a particular vendor is doing a Paid BoF. William suggested Ski contact the vendor and see if they would be interested in sponsoring the LOSPA Meeting.
* Yerkes award ideas
** Various lists and forums were reviewed for stand-outs.
** The committee has suggested a few members for considerations.
** Philip gave some background on the Yerkes award and discussed some of the criteria
* Matt suggested they we really try hard to plan out the community meeting. If we over plan it will still come out well. It is important that we plan it out early on this year. Philip agrees. William asked who is actually going to LISA. It may just be Ski, Philip and possibly Dan. Philip asked that we urgently request volunteers. Ski has it on the list for LOPSA-Live.

=== #LOPSA-Live ===
* Date: Thursday Nov 15
* Attendance confirmations verified with those on the call
* New Format: 7pm EST for East Coast, repeat @ 10pm EST for West Coast to try and increase our audience, if not we'll try something else.
* Admonition to fill in the agenda.
* Martin will try to keep it to an hour. We will reassess after the forum.
* William will not be able to make the East Coast version. He will update Martin so Martin can do the East Coast version.
* Jesse thought the Doodle unclear, so some people were confused. Jesse will have a lot to speak about.

===Local Chapter Policy===
* Martin put the new policy on the Board Wiki and asked people to comment on it.

===Conference Harassment Policy===
* The first draft is out there for comment. William found an example from the Kansas City BBQ Society. There is no electronic copy. He is trying to get the judging book and scan it and get it to Philip.
* Philip will look at it and then add what he can and forward it to a Women's Policy Organization for input.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned we adjourn, William seconded. We are adjourned 20:42

Board meeting Minutes/19 Nov 2012

2013-03-27T04:16:02Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=5 Nov 2012|after=3 Dec 2012}}

{{minutes approved|3 Dec 2012}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Martin Gehrke, Dan Rich, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Ski Kacoroski
;Apologies: Evan Pettrey

;Opened: 20:01 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:59 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approved minutes of {{minutes link|10 Sep 2012}}'''
* '''Approved minutes of {{minutes link|24 Sep 2012}}'''
Links need to be removed before moved to governance.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt could not give any info on the Treasures report as he hasn't had a chance to speak with Evan.

* Membership report
** Summary reported, ideas solicited for retaining non-renewers

* Technical services report
** Jesse stated that the Team is near to completing the development server. It should be available soon.
** Martin would like to find the procedure for getting items for the Locals when they ask. (Web site, email address etc). William asked if they (the Tech Team) missed something and Martin said no he is just asking. William suggested putting in a help ticket. Jesse asked to get together (William, Jesse and Martin) and develop the list of things a local will need.
Volunteers for LISA are being handled by signupgenius.com.

* Conference/events activities report
** Scale is an active area of activity.
** LOPSA-East has their CFP out and Cascadia is looking for Sponsors.
** Martin mentioned he is reaching out to Locals for information on their events.

* Mentorship Status report
** Jesse stated the LMPT is on track. There is an automation test of the mailing list. He feels by the end of the month they should be ready to go. The LISA launch still looks good.

Any time somebody does volunteer in addition to what they do they should get on the list as a mentor. It does not obligate them to do any mentorship, it means they will get a list of the possible proteges so they will see what is going on.
Ski asked that as soon as he can get the go ahead he can start posting info about mentorship to build up interest into the launch.

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

* Communications report
** Second LinkedIn ad is running. We are up to 4,000 to 5,000 views. Our name is getting out there. He hasn't tried the Google Ads yet.
** Ski commended Martin what he is doing on LOPSA live. He is doing a great job.
** Philip mentioned we may have a sponsorship offer for LISA. Ski verified that they are mulling it over and might just give us some give-away stuff. William asked if he needed to speak to them but Ski said he is doing fine.
**Ski revised the LOPSAGram and the template needs fixing.
**LOPSA-Live (Martin)
*** Martin thanked Dan and Jesse for getting him the perl script to do some analysis. He is going to only one session and is looking into a video LOPSA-Live. He expects it to be late January so look for a Doodle shortly to locked down a time.
*** William asked if the two in one night was worth it. Martin said it wasn't worth it and we did not double our attendance. Martin will continue to try new things to get our attendance numbers up.

* Project Management report
** There will be a more complete report after the Holidays.
** Generally it looks that we are getting a deliverable on our projects and any delays have been explained.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** The LC Chair is working through the list.

== LISA 2012... (Ski) ==
* Looks like we are getting lots of volunteers - set up page at signupgenius to manage them and it is being filled out.
* Need a 1 page sales pitch for people to talk from
* Ski is creating a draft. Philip is putting on the agenda for the next meeting with your critical talking points for your elevator pitch.
* Martin asked about having board@lopsa.org on the reply. He got spammed on the replies when people declined.
* Yerkes award recipient decided - need to get an award. William takes the lead on getting it.
* Will work on annual meeting notes this weekend. Ski and Philip
** Need input for Annual meeting from:
*** Evan - Finances
*** Dan - Membership
*** Jesse - Mentorship
*** William - LOPSA-East
*** Martin - Locals
*** Matt, John - if you have anything I missed, please let me know
* Dan will email every individual sponsorship and make sure we have their correct level of sponsorship and ask if they wanted to be a sponsor for LISA.
* Jesse will get from the LMPT for what they want for their slides so you will have that for the meeting. It should be about 3 or 4 slides. The LMPT wants to have a raffle for the people in the LMPT program. We have about four prizes. Jesse isn't sure if it was publicly announced. The mechanism was reportedly horrible last year. Jesse is asking if it was possible that we present the LMPT with something at LISA publicly. William stated we have nothing in inventory for that available right now an Jesse will think of something else.
* Reiterating that the drawing disorganized last year but if we improve it a bit we can do it in the public. Ski has a plan.
* Looks like I will have a few items to raffle off at the Annual Meeting (books)
* Still no luck on LOPSA After Dark
** Doesn't look like it will happen. The best bet is to get someone to sponsor it. Philip likes the idea of the ice cream social. Philip asked William to look into that with the interested vendor.
* Need password for square or PayPal system. We do not have a PayPal device but we do need the password.
* William is waiting for the date to ship everything. William responded to an inquiry that the laptops from 2011 were loaned and do not have any in inventory.
* William has the picture frame and Dan has everything to put on there. Dan will ship the data to William so he can load it before it is shipped.
* Dan said when we take money from people at the booth if you could update the website right there. In the past the emails were not entered correctly and it created a mess and a lot of work afterwards to match up the memberships.

== New Award Committee (Martin) ==
* I think we need to make a more concerted effort to formalize and expand our Awards.
* Initially I see a couple new awards beyond the Yerkes award.
** New Volunteer Award (for people who have been with LOPSA less than 3? years)
** Volunteer Award (for people who have been with LOPSA > 3? years)
* For a volunteer based organization we should do a better job of showing appreciation for our volunteers. This would also spread the word about the volunteer opportunities.
* More awards are possible and likely. I think our board members should not be eligible for the awards while in office, but we should definitely do something for outgoing board members considering the amount of time the positions require. This year I sent out certificates, but we could make it more publicly.
* In the spirit of all this, I wouldn't make the suggestion without also volunteering to head up the effort. We already have the Yerkes award set up, so starting all this in 2013 would make sense.
* This could tie in with Dan's work for member benefits.
* A suggestion was made that an award should also be given out at a LOPSA function rather than just at LISA. We should aim to have our awards handed out at our events. Martin is concerned that LOPSA-East is early. William said it doesn't have to be this year. Philip mentioned that we don't have to do a Calendar year but do an award year.
* Jesse agrees to do it a LOPSA event. If the award is being given to a member from a Local chapter we could have the award presented at the local chapters meeting by the chapter head or even a board member if they are present.
* Jesse also stated that a short policy be drafted for the committee and then when it is approved the committee could then get started.
* Martin thanks the board. He will get started on the draft policy. William stated he would like to be on the committee. William stated that it was already stated that a board member is not eligible for an award. Jesse stated that he thought the limit for giving an award without a vote is $200 or $250. William said he would get some prices together for awards. Martin then asked about awards in kind like free passes to LOPSA events (Cascadia, LOPSA-East). William stated Evan would have to be consulted. Jesse stated that if a training organization would like to give away a class that would be fine.
* Martin is asking if the standing committee would hand them out . He was thinking of even Thank You certificates that could be handed out at the local meeting.
* Jesse asks if there is an award in mind right now we should move forward on it now. He likes the idea that an award does not have to be expensive just something that recognizes the effort /action of the volunteer. Martin asked if there was any award that someone wanted to give out now.
* Philip asked that we think on that for next meeting.
* William stated we have an awards committee. William sent Martin the lInk to the Awards committee wiki page.

== WiAC Stipend (Disney) ==
* I propose we pursue another LOPSA stipend for the WiAC conference. Should we seek donations for this and, if so, what is the most appropriate way?
* Last year some people stepped up to sponsor this and he felt more of our members would donate to LOPSA if we show we are using this the right way.
* Dan said Civi has a pledge portion that we could set a goal and then when it gets near the goal it would put some type of odometer on your web site.
* Matt asked if we should mention this at the Community meeting and if people want to donate to the cause they could do so. Dan thinks this is reasonable and Philip said they would look into this.
* John stated that we as a board set a certain amount and that we ask a sponsor to add the remaining amount. We need to be able to remain fluid with sponsorship levels. Last year LOPSA sponsored one and a long time friend of LOPSA sponsored a second one.
* Martin asked if there were pages on this from Last year where we can point people to. Philip said there are articles and a search for WiAC would pull them up.

== New Business ==

* Martin has the Locals Policy up and needs comments.
* Dan asked for an updated list of our Corporate sponsors (he needs it for the photo frame for LISA).
* Philip asked again the board members to look at the companies they deal with and see which ones might be good candidates for corporate sponsorship.

== Notes/announcements ==
* William announced that LOPSA-East just landed Fujitsu as a Bronze sponsor. They will be at the conference and he will deal with them for a LOPSA at large sponsorship.

== Adjournment ==
Jesse motioned for adjournment and William seconded.

Board meeting Minutes/14 Jan 2013

2013-03-27T04:15:10Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=17 Dec 2012|after=28 Jan 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Martin Gehrke, Dan Rich, Evan Pettrey, John Boris, Matt Disney,Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:00 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 21:03 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* ''' Minutes of {{minutes link|17 Dec 2012}}''' were approved

== Standing Reports ==
* Open Tickets.
** There are no specific tickets to point out.
* Treasurer's report
** Evan gave financial report. PayPal administration is being difficult. He will stay on top of this to get it resolved.
* Membership report
** It is hard to report which are new or renewed because of the way Civi reports the numbers. He suggested looking at the recent reports to see the numbers. About a tenth renewed during the sale.
** Discussion about relative numbers and the holidays not allowing time for LISA.
** We should hit non-renewals with an email and ask why they did not renew.
* Technical services report
** Some projects are at a stand-still due to other work requirements. Jesse isn't on the call so we cannot get a full report.
** William has Forums at the top of his list; there are issues with the forums and their interface with Drupal.
** Our site handled LISA very well and there weren't any slow downs like last year. William credits Mike Julian for that with the work Mike did after he (William) and Jesse got everything moved over. Mike is still working on it.
* Conference/events activities report
**SCaLE
*** We are going to SCaLE and we have a table. We have two training classes set up and Aleksey will run them. We were supposed to get 4 rooms but we lost two of the rooms. We may get them back but in a way it helped out as he would of had to send a person from the East cost. We might try to get another room. The classes will be Aleksey's Time management class and his Beginner vi class. William will have numbers for Evan to send a contract out to Aleksey. William will get Ski the info so he can start publishing it.
*** Ski asked about guarding the door of the class. William said that is on his To-Do list to have that taken care of so we will not have to do that. If we need someone he will know in the next few days.
*** Ski will set up the signupgenius.com site to get volunteers for the table like we did at LISA.
**Cascadia-IT
*** Cascadia has announced their pricing and class schedules. They are still accepting papers for invited talks. If you want there is still time to get one in.
*** Cascadia registration will be open soon.
**LOPSA-East
*** LOPSA-East has their schedule done.
** William is thinking about bringing back Crossbow and will be looking for someone to take it over. He has to find someone to be able to do that. He will still be the Board contact but he is getting busy with a bunch of things and needs to get this handed off. At least handling the day to day stuff, LOPSA-East, SCaLE and other LOPSA only events. Also maybe looking for other venues for us.

* Mentorship Status report
** John brought up about finalizing something for the volunteers that gave the presentation at LISA. This was discussed at an October Board meeting. Big influx of mentors and proteges from LISA.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Ski asked Martin to get the Locals to send in what is going on. He has been contacting a lot of people about sponsors. Dell gave us a discount. Need more content for the LG. Martin has the LOPSA-Live Doodle up for February.

* Project Management report
** Minimal progress on the projects. He thinks that the nature of the projects it is better to make the reports quarterly. He has some delays between home and work and has been trying to catch up.
** Philip asked Jesse if he is still working on the tools to use for tracking. Jesse thinks he has settled on one. He will send Philip something later this week.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** William and Dan will both contact the LC by at least Wednesday by phone.

== Directors and Officers Insurance (Evan) ==
* Status and discussion
** Agent and backer had different time-frames on past actions we are resolving. He will probably hear back shortly. Once he hears back he will let people know.
** Jesse asked if we can get coverage, afford it and how long before we get it.
** Philip thinks we should be able to get the new contract by the end of February
** Evan summarized the expected costs and considers them reasonable
** Evan says that the info is shared on Google Drive showing the work in progress
** Jesse stated that if this is not resolved by early February he will resign.
** Much more discussion and links relative to NJ law

== Tech Team paging service (Jesse) ==
* Request for monthly service... details coming.
* The Tech Team is trying to improve their job of monitoring and managing things.
* Tech team is testing a pager service it will be $36 a month for four on point people to handle issues. The Tech Team would be able to be on top of issues that come up. They would be able to put anyone in who is on Pager Duty
* That way they can be more proactive. Jesse felt that it was important to bring to the board for discussion.
* Dan stated that Pager Duty has been approaching him and other sysadmins for quite a while and asked if Pager Duty could do this as a sponsorship. Maybe a discount for us.
* Jesse stated he has not done this but would go that route and see what happens.
* Dan stated maybe mentioning in our LOPSAGram a couple time or even giving our members a discount.
* Matt has contacted them before about discounts and the like but they were not warming up to that. This was in the past year. He did say he would dig up the information and see what he can find.
* Jesse will get back to them to see if they can do this as a sponsorship. If they turn us down is it okay to work with Evan to get an account setup.
* Philip says we need the notification but Jesse should try to work out a deal and if that fails to get with Evan.

== Square Reader Proposal... (Ski) ==
* I would like to purchase (2) iPOD touches for us to keep with the conference materials and use at conferences. I can get them for about $100 used online so they are the least expensive option and I think they work better with the Square a bit better than android devices.
* Ski has looked at various Android devices but none of them work very well. He was thinking about sending out an email to the membership asking if they have an iPod Touch or similar device laying around in their drawer they might like to donate to the cause. They would be perfect. They work with Square. After LISA he needs a reliable device.
* William asked Evan to look into PayPal for their Swiper and since we have a PayPal account if that will make it easier. He likes Ski's idea but thinks we should try the PayPal version.
* Evan will look into the PayPal. Square was 2.75% and PayPal might be different. Ski said PayPal is 2.67%.
* William asked Evan to contact PayPal about their new swiper William likes the idea.
* Evan will look into it. He will compare the rates. Square was 2.75% and PayPal may be cheaper. The device would be sent to Ski to use at Scale. Evan is ordering the PayPal swiper and it is agreed for Ski to send out an email to the members.
* William asked we should at least get one to try. Evan asked where to have it sent. William said to send it to Ski so he could use it at ScALE. Ski agreed with that.

== Video Proposal... (Ski) ==
Out of LISA came a need to really have a place to put videos.

There are three areas where videos would be helpful for use: conferences, locals, and system admin training. The concept is you are trying to create ssh keys and the screen is captured.

* Livestream will cost $42/month (paid on a yearly basis so $504/yr). LOPSA provides this and the locals/conferences provide their own equipment. We can have one recording and multiple viewing at a time. Use cases are:
* Conferences & Locals : Will need a PC or Mac and webcam ($80 for a recommended one). Better would be a camera with optical zoom ($300) that can stream to a Mac workstation vi thunderwire. Use this to stream sessions to the conference event. Afterwards put links to the event on conference web page, etc.
* Training: Concept is that when a system admin starts to solve a problem, they can turn on livestream, the webcam on their computer, and then stream their desktop as they solve the problem. We would link to these from our website and also get schools and online services like Opsschool to link to it.
* At this time I am still practicing with my personal accounts, but I plan to ask for volunteers who want to work on this. Once we get some processes down, I plan to ask to the board to approve the $$$.
* Ski is hoping to do this at Cascadia.
* Philip likes the idea. He thinks we should be doing something as this would increase interest long term
* Dan says that we have to get agreements from people that they are being videoed allow us to post them on the site. They should be behind the pay wall. Put local meetings in front of the Pay wall to entice them to join. Similar to BayLISA.
* William mentioned that LOPSA-NJ did their meeting with an iPad and did a Google Hangout. John Boris did most of the work on it. LOPSA-NJ will keep everyone appraised. LOPSA-NJ is not going to the next meeting as it will be a cluster meeting. We are looking to do the March meeting using Google Hangout.
* John explained about using the iPad. The microphone is the issue. You have to really work with the sound. We videotaped the last one as well as the hangout. Sound was poor and the mike was only four rows from the speaker. Also bandwidth has to be considered along with the connection. Our connection kept dropping.
John volunteered to help Ski with that.
* Jesse say his local has been kicking this around and is very interested in this. Their meetings have been very well attended (approx. 25 members per month). He was thinking of having a virtual meeting. This would make this possible where we could have speakers from all over the world. He sees the problem is the software infrastructure is the issue.
* Dan said that BayLISA does a lot of this and asked if Livestream had any bandwidth issues. Example we have a 90 minute meeting. Ski doesn't think so and will verify it. USENIX uses Live Stream so it looks good but Ski wants to make sure we have content providers.
* Dan commented that as long as there are no bandwidth charges it looks good for us.
* Dan sees this a lot with web comic artists. Both Dan and Ski agree we need content before we go through with this.
* Martin said that before we go out and ask for content we should have a list of topics we are looking for so we get content we can used. Dan agreed.
* Philip asked Ski if he had his direction. Ski stated he will go ahead and report back.

== SCaLE... (Ski) ==
* This was covered under conferences

== Mentorship Acknowledgement (John) ==
* Thomas has suggested the board send some Merchandise to the four Volunteers on the mentorship Team Ed, Lois, Nick and Lawrence. I mentioned this at another board meeting.
John wants to give Thomas a definite answer. William asked how many luggage tags he wants. John mentioned we give them kudos in the LOPSA Gram.
* William has a quote for T shirts but it is missing the shipping. William will go back and see the total cost. Once set all we have to do is turn on the front end on the Web Site.
* William will present this at the next meeting.
* Philip has some donated books from Cisco. Philip will get them documented and out.

== Harassment Policy (Kizer) ==
* Verbal review with possible adoption if suitable
** Link to: LOPSA Policy on Hostile Conduct and Harassment at Conferences and Events

* Dan asked about the comments on the Policy and Philip said that it looks as though the comments are tied to the text and since he removed the text the comments may have went with them. Dan stated he really doesn't remember his comments and would like to see them. Philip stated all y9ou have to do is click on versions and you will see them.
* Philip has harassment policy up for review and wants to ratify this at the next meeting.
* Dan thought it was more conference centric and maybe we should also include IRC, forums etc.
* Philip thought the rules of etiquette applied with other areas. If he wants it more electronic he will have to redo it. If the rules of etiquette does not apply do we get rid of it. Dan doesn't think it conflicts. IRC rules are specific that we can ridicule you etc. So a one liner where this could apply in other forums where the LOPSA name is used.
* Matt is for the document and is happy to ratify. He wonders if we need more procedure or formality at the bottom of the document.
* Phil agrees we need formal procedure but the document should be more generic.
* Dan says he is okay with it being ratified tonight as long as everyone has read it since we can always amend it.

* Jesse moves that the Board moves and accepts the Harassment Policy proposed by Philip.
* Dan seconded the motion.
* A voice vote was taken and it was a unanimous vote.

* Jesse spoke on how difficult that was to get that together and how important it was for us to get this out to show our membership how we are backing them.

== Notes/announcements ==
* Matt spoke on how his group has grown at ORNL and he now has a bit more work that he should be able to continue with his level of involvement with the board. He wants to stay on the board. He wanted to know if anyone is opposed to his level of commitment he is willing to talk about it. He is happy to have an open discussion on his level of commitment to the board.

* Philip thanked him for the disclosure and will chat with him.

== Adjournment ==
A motion to adjourn by Ski seconded by William

Board meeting Minutes/28 Jan 2013

2013-03-27T04:14:55Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=14 Jan 2013|after=11 Feb 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Matt Disney (late)

;Apologies: Martin Gehrke, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:04 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 21:05 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* Minutes are on hold.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Evan needs to move money to tier one and Jesse can help with the credentials.
** We have our NJ Sales tax certificate. Change the Sage to LOPSA. If we can. Evan will look into it.
** Ski has a general sponsorship letter we can use to send out. It looks like everyone is having a hard time drumming up business.
** William says that it is budget time and the economy is slow. Ski thinks they may be earmarking their money to more product specific areas.
** Dan feels we should be more specific to our potential sponsors as to what we want to use their money for.

* Membership report
*** Summary provided, no responses for non-renewals
** It looks like PayPal pro is helping.

* Technical services report
** Slight problem with tech team going to Splunk. Mail got messed up for a bit and all was fixed by Friday of last week. The Tech team will discuss the issue.

* Conference/events activities report
** SCALE coming up.
** Cascadia getting ready to open
** LOPSA-East just rolled out their schedule and web site
** SCALE coming up.
*** 1 trainer, 2 classes due to a loss of a room. Aleksey is doing both classes.
*** Dan, Ski is working the table. We are next to USENIX. Ski is setting up signupgenius for the volunteers

* Mentorship Status report
** Weekly Meeting (Google Hangout) held Thursday Jan 24. Discussed LOPSAGram The team developed a request for people to be part of the core team. I will be acting as a quasi Co-Chair until Edward gets through the Fiscal year crush on his end. (Probably after April 15th). Me and Lois are on Call next week.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc)
** LOPSAGram will go out this week - content appreciated
** Please fill out lopsa-live doodle for Feb.
** Working with William to get Ad up on Matt Simmons blog
** Ski and Phil will discuss a hangout

* Project Management report
No Report this week

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Dan would like to pass the LC coordinator position over to William.
*** Need: LC status, election status, communication plan

== D&O Insurance Update (Kizer) ==
* Summary: new provider is now active

== SIGs (Pettrey) ==
* Evan met with Nathan Harvey. Nathen is interested in potentially making DevOpsDC the first LOPSA SIG. Evan says they have about 400 members. Our Policy needs a review to see if it is still current.
* DevOPsDc is better as an affiliate
* Discussion of what is a SIG. Define difference between a SIG and an Affiliate. General consensus that this doesn't really fit our definition of a SIG.

== WiAC Stipend (Disney) ==
* I would like LOPSA to match a $750 donation in order to guarantee at least one $1500 stipend for WiAC '13 ($750 commitment by LOPSA). I would also like to pursue a crowd-funding effort to fund a second stipend, which would either increase the stipend to $2000 or provide a second stipend.
* Motion by Matt that LOPSA commits to match a $750 donation to provide for $1500 stipend for Wiac
* William second
* Motion approved.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned for adjournment
William second

Board meeting Minutes/11 Feb 2013

2013-03-27T04:14:40Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=28 Jan 2013|after=25 Feb 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Martin Gehrke (may be a bit late), Dan Rich,John Boris,Matt Disney (late), Ski Kacoroski

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey (started new job today - working late tonight), Jesse Trucks,

;Opened: 20:05 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:39 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* Pushed to next meeting

== Action Items ==
* Everyone needs to check RT at least once a week
* If you reply to a ticket, "take" it so it doesn't stay unassigned (I'm looking for an RT script to automate this)

== Standing Reports ==
* Treasurer's report
** On hold as Evan has started a new job

* Membership report
** Summary provided, numbers were better

* Technical services report
** Ski is waiting for Puppet Labs info to be posted so he can notify the sponsor. He will put a ticket in the Tech Services Queue.

* Conference/events activities report
** Cascadia and LOPSA-East are open.
** Scale is in two weeks. We will be teaching two classes. We requested to be next to USENIX.
** Cascadia Sponsors picking up.
** HP asked for a W9 Form document and William is sending it out.
** John asked how the tables are handled at the conferences. William and Ski explained that they are usually free for non-profits. Also if we do any other conferences. There have been suggestions to go to other conferences. Philip stated it always hinges on availability and personnel to man the table. These are sent to people/companies that have contacted him.

* Mentorship Status report
** 2 mentors and proteges were added. Thomas gave Phil help on the mentorship question for the Spiceworks interview

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Ski explained the steps Ski did to get Puppet on board. He explained that he uses Quick text in Thunderbird and when he sees a company he sends out the email. Puppet was his first success out of three responses.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Ski is pushing Cascadia applicants and sponsors. He is trying to get the social media names to communications@LOPSA.org so it is not under his name. He is working with Scale for press releases. He is looking for contacts to send Press releases.
** Looking to get a tall vertical add so Matt Simmons can put it on his site.
** He is also looking to get a press release group up in Civi so it makes it easier to send Press Releases.
** Martin says that there is a LOPSA-Live coming up and it will stay on IRC as he hasn't found a newer medium.
** William mentioned we have Go-To-Webinar available. Martin is trying to find a person who will do the moderating if we go to Video or Audio.

* Project Management report
** Awaiting Jesse

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** William contacted Parter and will report back by next meeting. He has at least one other person who will run in the next election.

== T-Shirt Procurement (Bilancio)==
* I have talked with Inkspill which is the company that does the printing of the Business Cards.
* They have come up with a price for the t-shirts as well as being the facilitators of storing/shipping all shirts.
** Pricing details provided.
* Once we make the decision on what we want to do we can set up the store on the web site and have all orders forward to Inkspill.
* It was brought up that we will have to keep the monies raised separate from donations and sales.
* A consensus was meant to start with the T-Shirts
* Art Work should be in art department in EPS format.
* Matt asked about Collared shirts. Dan said there is a problem with the Lands End Store. Matt said that he gets a lot of questions and comments on the long sleeved shirts with the LOPSA Logo.
* Matt also stated that we have to be more diligent in keeping the monies collected by donations and Sales for the 990 forms. Any questions on the financial side Evan or Matt should be contacted.
* Martin mentioned there was a local chapter member who had an embroidery service that could handle large runs. Lands End is Just in Time.
* If there is a large request for the embroidered items we can revisit this and see if we can do a large run.
* Consensus is to go with the T Shirts

== New Business ==

Philip will include an item for brainstorming and bootstrap our solicitation for sponsorship. Start thinking about the vendors you use or would like to use

== Adjournment ==
Motion for adjournment Dan
Second William

Board meeting Minutes/25 Feb 2013

2013-03-27T04:14:26Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=11 Feb 2013|after=11 Mar 2013}}

{{minutes approved|11 Mar 2013}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Dan Rich, John Boris, Evan Pettrey

;Apologies: Martin Gehrke (vacation), Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 8:00 PM '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 8:58 PM '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|11 Feb 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|28 Jan 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|14 Jan 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|19 Nov 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|5 Nov 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|22 Oct 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|8 Oct 2012}}'''

A discussion on the minutes was held and Philip will hold an email vote on Wednesday.

== Action Items ==

== Motion submitted via electronic mail on 2013-Feb-12 ==
Motion by Martin Gehrke to approve NC*SA for provisional chapter status, Seconded by William Bilancio

Motion adopted on 2013-Feb-12

== Standing Reports ==
Treasurers report
Puppet Labs sponsorship has been received. The account is healthy. The Liability Insurance was paid.
One of our sponsors used to donate regularly and his donations seemed to have stopped. It will be investigated to see what was the cause.

* Membership report
** Good turnout at SCALE, 5 renewals, 3 new members
** 768 members
** 12 lapsed members this month, 35 this quarter
** I noticed that we have lost a few more founding members, we need to reach out and contact those and our non-renewing charter members
** We have also had a few notable individual sponsors not give us a sponsorship this year
** I am once again looking into gift memberships and trying to see what it would take to make a corporate membership possible (i.e. corporation buys multiple memberships for employees, possibly at a discount)

* Technical services report
**Monitoring is up and working.
**Splunk is collecting logs and is working.
**Pager duty setup is in process. Tech Team members are watching this closely
**The Jobs board was moved back to Drupal 6 for Development and a report should be sent in soon on the progress and status within a week.
**The Tech Team will be cleaning up their RT queue.
**A question was raised as to why we were using a company (Pager Duty) to handle alerts when we could send the alerts to the persons cell via person-phone-number@cell-providor.com. A discussion followed and it was restated that from the minutes the Tech Team was to contact the Pager Company and try to work on a deal for the service. After that they were to consult with the Treasurer and discuss the feasibility of going to this company for Pager alert service. The Treasurer found out today about the costs and nothing has been done as of this moment. No contract or agreement has been made with Pager Duty. The Treasurer will follow up with the Tech team on this issue. The costs for the service is approximately $18 - $36 per month but more information is needed. It was suggested that a justification from the Tech Team would be in order as it would be setting up a recurring cost. The Treasurer and the Tech Team can work on this. As part of the justification it should show the benefits of getting the service.

* Conference/events activities report
** SCALE was a good conference. Dan and Ski were there. Our trainer was sick, but Ski was able to take over and had 25 in the vi class and 35 in the Time Management class (people were sitting along the walls and in the aisle). We signed up 6 new members and 5 renewals. Also made contact with a group of students that want to start a student chapter at California State University San Bernandino. We also contacted several potential sponsors. Next year I would like to brand us as LOPSA-U and see if we can get two rooms for speakers. Dan noted if we decide to do SCALE next year we should try to be on the correct spot of the venue for the most foot traffic. We were next to USENIX who normally is on the larger side where more foot traffic existed but this year they were on the smaller side. Since we requested to be near USENIX we ended up on the less traveled side. This will be placed in the SCALE notes (Wiki Page) for next year to consider table placement.

**Cascadia and LOPSA-East registrations are open. Cadcadia's early bird discount is done on Thursday. Not sure if they will extend it. Crossbow head will be changing. Past attendees from LOPSA-East will be contacted. Cascadia will be sending out a second mailing to past attendees.

* Mentorship Status report
Short call this week. Snow storm in Central USA hampered two members and Chairman was ill. Lois and John were on Call this week. The team still has to update the procedure into a better guide to make process easier for those that don't do it as often.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
Ski had very good talks with USENIX and LINUX New Media representatives. He is working on an ad swapping arrangement with them as well as possibly posting some of their articles/talks (stuff). O'Reilly approached him about posting information about their Velocity conferences in return they will post information about our conferences. Our Tweets are getting out there and we have seen them re-tweeted.
**The LOPSAGram is coming up and if Board members have anything for it they should forward it to Ski as soon as possible.

* Project Management report
No report
* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
Our LC Chair has been unresponsive to attempts to speak to him. Philip was asked to step in as President to contact him and see where we are. There was a request that by the next meeting someone prepare a timeline and document how hard it was to stay in contact the LC Chair.



== LOPSA-U Idea... (Ski) ==
I would like to propose that we set up formal LOPSA branded training that we do at conferences called LOPSA-U. The idea is to get LOPSA's name out there more so folks hear about it instead of SCALE-U. I have a lead on a company that would be willing to help sponsor LOPSA-U (we are talking about $1000, but maybe more). The idea is that our trainers would have a slide at the start and end of the presentations saying this tutorial brought to you by LOPSA and <Sponsorname>, it would mention our booths (if we have them), and their would be some materials provided by LOPSA and the sponsor at the back of the room.

I met with a person from South East LinuxFest (SELF) and he was open to having LOPSA-U at his location. The potential sponsor is attending that one, Ohio, and the Northeast for sure (maybe more). If we go for this I see us needing speakers (I could do some of these), literature, marketing (yes me again), but I think it would be a good way to get the LOPSA brand out there.

Texas Linuxfest (May 31-Jun 1, Austin, TX)
South East LinuxFest (Jun 7-9, Charlotte, NC) (we could get the new local to help out).
Ohio Linuxfest (Sep 13-15, Columbus, OH) (we have a local here also)

For the Texas and SELF, we have to contact them soon if we are going to do this as they need to block out the rooms for us (I am not sure that Texas would be willing to do it).

There may be issues with the Conferences changing there names. The thought is to have a LOPSA-U day and hopefully have the sponsor back the trainer which would save us. South East LinuxFest has asked us to get to them within the next few weeks if we are going to go. Ski will contact the sponsor and South East Linuxfest and see what they say. The focus will be South East LinuxFest attending.

Going forward it might be possible to have the LOPSA-U brand on the Local Conferences.

It was brought up having an Online presence of LOPSA-U.

== Sponsorships... (Ski) ==
In addition to our standard media, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum sponsors; I would like to add the following sponsorships and start advertising them to our sponsors:

WiAC: $500 - $1500:
LOPSA will advertise and solicit essays from women who want to attend the WiAC workshop at the Federated conferences. The top essayists will win the stipend and are required to write up a blog post for LOPSA after they attend. LOPSA will advertise the stipend as sponsored by <sponsorname> on our website, newsletter, and media feeds.

Group memberships: If a corporation purchases 4 memberships at full price for their staff, they get one membership free (end result is like they are getting 5 at our discounted price).

Sponsor LOPSA conference training: See above.
This might help drive sponsorship as their sponsorship money would go directly go to that purpose.

== WiAC'13 (Disney) ==
Prepared to announce stipend in same manner as last year (on lopsa.org with publicity through LOPSA comm channels). Propose using http://www.crowdrise.com/crowdrise for fundraising additional stipend amounts. Announcement for March LOPSAgram. Discussion or questions?

Why wouldn't we just use CiviPledge so it integrates in with the rest of our contact tracking and finances? It is designed to be used like a PBS pledge "I pledge $20." The other third party sites are fine but you get lost in the other drives. It would look better if we have the drive coming from our site.

CiviPledge will be investigated and seen if it will help our efforts. The idea is to keep it easy for our users and members to use.

Everyone agrees to use the crowd funding option as it will aid us in our sponsorship.

An experimental pledge will be put into Civi for testing.

===Proposal to promote WiAC===
It was suggested that we build on recent video on sysadmins. We start getting a few women involved in scripting the video and collecting videos and pictures and start creating a video on WiAC. A mailing list will be created.

== New Business ==


== Notes/announcements ==
Each board member is asked to update who you think would be a good contact for a sponsorship.
Ski explained how he has been approaching sponsorships. Basically he has been sending information to any sales person that approaches him. He entered the template into Civi. He dug around in Civi and found that a large amount of sponsorship have fallen by the wayside and we should try and get them back. He has had only one big response. But is worth the effort.

It was suggested that when we approach a potential a sponsor we should have a purpose so we can go to a sponsor and say "Hey we have this WiAC scholarship would you like sponsor it" as one example.

== Adjournment ==
Motion to Adjournment by Matt
Second by William

Board meeting Minutes/11 Mar 2013

2013-03-27T04:13:57Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=25 Feb 2013|after=25 Mar 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Mar 2013}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski, John Boris, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke,

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey (most likely not going to make it as I have a down system I've been working on all day), Jesse Trucks

;Opened: <time> '''8:04 PM'''

;Closed: <time> '''8:53 PM'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Minutes of {{minutes link|25 Feb 2013}} Approved'''

Philip made a motion to approve the minutes for the meetings on the dates of 8 Oct 2012, 22 Oct 2012, 5 Nov 2012, 19 Nov 2012, 14 Jan 2013, 28 Jan 2013 and 11 Feb 2013.
Ski seconded the motion
The MOTION PASSES with a quorum of votes in the affirmative

== Action Items ==
Board members are reminded to check RT and take care of their open tickets.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
No report
* Membership report
** 776 members
** 9 lapsed members this month, 51 this quarter
** Fixed the member expiration date reminder bug.
** We may get a bump as Cascadia is this week.
*** We will only get a bump from Full Day Cascadia Attendees.

* Technical services report
No issues. They are getting ready for the Elections.

* Conference/events activities report
====Cascadia====
Cascadia has 116 attendees, that includes trainers and sponsorship passes. If they get past 120 it will be a good conference.
====LOPSA-EAST====
LOPSA-East Early Bird ends April 1st . Some complaints about the higher cost but it is due to the high cost of food and not a money making move.
====LISA'13====
LISA has opened CFP. Now is a time for us to plan for LISA. Yerkes Award nominees, table workers.

* Mentorship Status report
The mentorship program has been very active. We've had people vieing for the same Protege which shows we are improving.

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

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
We are getting more followers and tweet backs. Ski is starting to schedule out the social media for meetings of the local chapters. The finalized Locals Contact Page will be a big help.

He is working on the LOPSA-U concept. He is speaking to SELF Southeast LINUX FEST and has reached out to the local chapter down there to see if they want to get involved. This would be a great opportunity for the NC Chapter to get more involved. SELF does not usually charge and they sent out a survey to their attendees to see if they will want to pay for the LOPSA classes. If we do get involved that will be the first week in June.

* Project Management report
No report

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
Our LC has verbally resigned from the position. Phil has reached out to Mario Obejas to step in to get the election going. He has accepted and has been reaching out to people.

Dan motions to accept Mario as the Interim LC until the Face to Face meeting at which time the Board will select a permanent chair.

William Seconds

Motion passes unopposed

The Bord President will be the Liaison with the LC

== LOPSA-SD Approval (martin) ==
LOPSA-SD has petitioned for provisional status.

From Brad Beyenhof:

1) Our LOPSA-SD member list is attached. We have 13 local members, 8
of whom are paid members of LOPSA. I didn't collect member ID numbers
from them, but I can request that information from them if you need
it. Though we're using Meetup and Mailman, I created this list based
only on the physical sign-in sheets at the two meetings we've had to
date.

2) We do not collect dues, and merely request that our members join
LOPSA on their own if they can.

3) Our goals are, first and foremost, to provide a local social
community for our members. We intend also to arrange for presentations
(from our own members as well as from vendors), data center tours, and
other such activities; our next meeting is the place where we intend
to bring up specifics regarding such plans.

4) We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month, from 6PM to
whenever. At this point, both of our meetings have been conducted at
Callahan's Pub and Brewery, but we're looking to see if we can find
other accommodations (that will hopefully be better suited for
presentations).

Martin makes a motion to approve LOPSA-SD chapter as a provisional chapter

Seconded by Ski

Motion Passed unopposed

== Land's End Store Review ==
We're just about ready to go live with the clothing store on Land's End and the rest of the board should review it. Once that is finalized we can launch it.

The items we offer on these pages will be the embroidered items.
* Are there products missing we want to offer?
* Are there additional logos we want to allow (like the oval "sticker" logo for hats might be nice)
* Are we happy with the color selection? Should we limit the colors or add more?
* There are two additional bags along with the iPad cover.
* The colors are not the same for each item. As Red goes we should stay with the Burgundy and Rich Red.
* The branding guide states we should avoid light colors.
The finished page link will be emailed out shortly



== New Business ==
===OS Bashing on the mailing lists===
Over the last few weeks there was a big email blast on the LOPSA-NJ list. A list member asked for help with Exchange and they were boldly told "DON'T USE IT." Since we are trying to prove we are OS agnostic and don't bash people on the list. If you don't care for Microsoft then don't bash a person who uses it and asks a question on it.

On the New York list there was a question about how to better themselves as a Sysadmin and a person gave a very good reply and even prefaced it that it may sound like he was pushing his product but since he has given talks on just that subject he felt it was relevant and wanted to be up front with it. A person on the list bashed him for trying to sell his product.

The flamers on both lists were reprimanded by another list member.
William stated that the Windows bashing has to stop and something from the Board President should come out to the members explaining what we are trying to do and that we are OS neutral and conduct ourselves accordingly.
It was noted that almost half of the mentorship requests are for Windows Help so it looks like we are the place to come for help.
In the discussion it was asked if we have a deeper issue that we should look at to resolve and not to just address the effect of this root cause.



== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn made by
Seconded by

Board meeting Minutes

2013-03-27T04:05:52Z

Ski:

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2013 ==
* {{m|11 Mar 2013}}
* {{m|25 Feb 2013}}
* {{m|11 Feb 2013}}
* {{m|28 Jan 2013}}
* {{m|14 Jan 2013}}
== 2012 ==
* {{m|17 Dec 2012}}
* 3 Dec Minutes waiting approval
* {{m|19 Nov 2012}}
* {{m|5 Nov 2012}}
* {{m|22 Oct 2012}}
* {{m|8 Oct 2012}}
* {{m|24 Sep 2012}}
* {{m|10 Sep 2012}}
* {{m|25-26 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|25 Aug 2012}}
== 2012 ==
* {{m|13 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|30 July 2012}}
* {{m|16 July 2012}}
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
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* {{m|20 February 2006}}
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* {{m|30 January 2006}}
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== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/11 Mar 2013

2013-03-27T04:03:53Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/11_Mar_2013

{{minutes box|before=25 Feb 2013|after=25 Mar 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Mar 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski, John Boris, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke,

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey (most likely not going to make it as I have a down system I've been working on all day), Jesse Trucks

;Opened: <time> '''8:04 PM'''

;Closed: <time> '''8:53 PM'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Minutes of {{minutes link|25 Feb 2013}} Approved'''

Philip made a motion to approve the minutes for the meetings on the dates of 8 Oct 2012, 22 Oct 2012, 5 Nov 2012, 19 Nov 2012, 14 Jan 2013, 28 Jan 2013 and 11 Feb 2013.
Ski seconded the motion
The MOTION PASSES with a quorum of votes in the affirmative

== Action Items ==
Board members are reminded to check RT and take care of their open tickets.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
No report
* Membership report
** 776 members
** 9 lapsed members this month, 51 this quarter
** Fixed the member expiration date reminder bug.
** We may get a bump as Cascadia is this week.
*** We will only get a bump from Full Day Cascadia Attendees.

* Technical services report
No issues. They are getting ready for the Elections.

* Conference/events activities report
====Cascadia====
Cascadia has 116 attendees, that includes trainers and sponsorship passes. If they get past 120 it will be a good conference.
====LOPSA-EAST====
LOPSA-East Early Bird ends April 1st . Some complaints about the higher cost but it is due to the high cost of food and not a money making move.
====LISA'13====
LISA has opened CFP. Now is a time for us to plan for LISA. Yerkes Award nominees, table workers.

* Mentorship Status report
The mentorship program has been very active. We've had people vieing for the same Protege which shows we are improving.

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

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
We are getting more followers and tweet backs. Ski is starting to schedule out the social media for meetings of the local chapters. The finalized Locals Contact Page will be a big help.

He is working on the LOPSA-U concept. He is speaking to SELF Southeast LINUX FEST and has reached out to the local chapter down there to see if they want to get involved. This would be a great opportunity for the NC Chapter to get more involved. SELF does not usually charge and they sent out a survey to their attendees to see if they will want to pay for the LOPSA classes. If we do get involved that will be the first week in June.

* Project Management report
No report

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
Our LC has verbally resigned from the position. Phil has reached out to Mario Obejas to step in to get the election going. He has accepted and has been reaching out to people.

Dan motions to accept Mario as the Interim LC until the Face to Face meeting at which time the Board will select a permanent chair.

William Seconds

Motion passes unopposed

The Bord President will be the Liaison with the LC

== LOPSA-SD Approval (martin) ==
LOPSA-SD has petitioned for provisional status.

From Brad Beyenhof:

1) Our LOPSA-SD member list is attached. We have 13 local members, 8
of whom are paid members of LOPSA. I didn't collect member ID numbers
from them, but I can request that information from them if you need
it. Though we're using Meetup and Mailman, I created this list based
only on the physical sign-in sheets at the two meetings we've had to
date.

2) We do not collect dues, and merely request that our members join
LOPSA on their own if they can.

3) Our goals are, first and foremost, to provide a local social
community for our members. We intend also to arrange for presentations
(from our own members as well as from vendors), data center tours, and
other such activities; our next meeting is the place where we intend
to bring up specifics regarding such plans.

4) We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month, from 6PM to
whenever. At this point, both of our meetings have been conducted at
Callahan's Pub and Brewery, but we're looking to see if we can find
other accommodations (that will hopefully be better suited for
presentations).

Martin makes a motion to approve LOPSA-SD chapter as a provisional chapter

Seconded by Ski

Motion Passed unopposed

== Land's End Store Review ==
We're just about ready to go live with the clothing store on Land's End and the rest of the board should review it. Once that is finalized we can launch it.

The items we offer on these pages will be the embroidered items.
* Are there products missing we want to offer?
* Are there additional logos we want to allow (like the oval "sticker" logo for hats might be nice)
* Are we happy with the color selection? Should we limit the colors or add more?
* There are two additional bags along with the iPad cover.
* The colors are not the same for each item. As Red goes we should stay with the Burgundy and Rich Red.
* The branding guide states we should avoid light colors.
The finished page link will be emailed out shortly



== New Business ==
===OS Bashing on the mailing lists===
Over the last few weeks there was a big email blast on the LOPSA-NJ list. A list member asked for help with Exchange and they were boldly told "DON'T USE IT." Since we are trying to prove we are OS agnostic and don't bash people on the list. If you don't care for Microsoft then don't bash a person who uses it and asks a question on it.

On the New York list there was a question about how to better themselves as a Sysadmin and a person gave a very good reply and even prefaced it that it may sound like he was pushing his product but since he has given talks on just that subject he felt it was relevant and wanted to be up front with it. A person on the list bashed him for trying to sell his product.

The flamers on both lists were reprimanded by another list member.
William stated that the Windows bashing has to stop and something from the Board President should come out to the members explaining what we are trying to do and that we are OS neutral and conduct ourselves accordingly.
It was noted that almost half of the mentorship requests are for Windows Help so it looks like we are the place to come for help.
In the discussion it was asked if we have a deeper issue that we should look at to resolve and not to just address the effect of this root cause.



== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn made by
Seconded by

Board meeting Minutes/25 Feb 2013

2013-03-27T04:03:36Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/25_Feb_2013

{{minutes box|before=11 Feb 2013|after=11 Mar 2013}}

{{minutes approved|11 Mar 2013}}

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Dan Rich, John Boris, Evan Pettrey

;Apologies: Martin Gehrke (vacation), Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 8:00 PM '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 8:58 PM '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|11 Feb 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|28 Jan 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|14 Jan 2013}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|19 Nov 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|5 Nov 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|22 Oct 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|8 Oct 2012}}'''

A discussion on the minutes was held and Philip will hold an email vote on Wednesday.

== Action Items ==

== Motion submitted via electronic mail on 2013-Feb-12 ==
Motion by Martin Gehrke to approve NC*SA for provisional chapter status, Seconded by William Bilancio

Motion adopted on 2013-Feb-12

== Standing Reports ==
Treasurers report
Puppet Labs sponsorship has been received. The account is healthy. The Liability Insurance was paid.
One of our sponsors used to donate regularly and his donations seemed to have stopped. It will be investigated to see what was the cause.

* Membership report
** Good turnout at SCALE, 5 renewals, 3 new members
** 768 members
** 12 lapsed members this month, 35 this quarter
** I noticed that we have lost a few more founding members, we need to reach out and contact those and our non-renewing charter members
** We have also had a few notable individual sponsors not give us a sponsorship this year
** I am once again looking into gift memberships and trying to see what it would take to make a corporate membership possible (i.e. corporation buys multiple memberships for employees, possibly at a discount)

* Technical services report
**Monitoring is up and working.
**Splunk is collecting logs and is working.
**Pager duty setup is in process. Tech Team members are watching this closely
**The Jobs board was moved back to Drupal 6 for Development and a report should be sent in soon on the progress and status within a week.
**The Tech Team will be cleaning up their RT queue.
**A question was raised as to why we were using a company (Pager Duty) to handle alerts when we could send the alerts to the persons cell via person-phone-number@cell-providor.com. A discussion followed and it was restated that from the minutes the Tech Team was to contact the Pager Company and try to work on a deal for the service. After that they were to consult with the Treasurer and discuss the feasibility of going to this company for Pager alert service. The Treasurer found out today about the costs and nothing has been done as of this moment. No contract or agreement has been made with Pager Duty. The Treasurer will follow up with the Tech team on this issue. The costs for the service is approximately $18 - $36 per month but more information is needed. It was suggested that a justification from the Tech Team would be in order as it would be setting up a recurring cost. The Treasurer and the Tech Team can work on this. As part of the justification it should show the benefits of getting the service.

* Conference/events activities report
** SCALE was a good conference. Dan and Ski were there. Our trainer was sick, but Ski was able to take over and had 25 in the vi class and 35 in the Time Management class (people were sitting along the walls and in the aisle). We signed up 6 new members and 5 renewals. Also made contact with a group of students that want to start a student chapter at California State University San Bernandino. We also contacted several potential sponsors. Next year I would like to brand us as LOPSA-U and see if we can get two rooms for speakers. Dan noted if we decide to do SCALE next year we should try to be on the correct spot of the venue for the most foot traffic. We were next to USENIX who normally is on the larger side where more foot traffic existed but this year they were on the smaller side. Since we requested to be near USENIX we ended up on the less traveled side. This will be placed in the SCALE notes (Wiki Page) for next year to consider table placement.

**Cascadia and LOPSA-East registrations are open. Cadcadia's early bird discount is done on Thursday. Not sure if they will extend it. Crossbow head will be changing. Past attendees from LOPSA-East will be contacted. Cascadia will be sending out a second mailing to past attendees.

* Mentorship Status report
Short call this week. Snow storm in Central USA hampered two members and Chairman was ill. Lois and John were on Call this week. The team still has to update the procedure into a better guide to make process easier for those that don't do it as often.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
Ski had very good talks with USENIX and LINUX New Media representatives. He is working on an ad swapping arrangement with them as well as possibly posting some of their articles/talks (stuff). O'Reilly approached him about posting information about their Velocity conferences in return they will post information about our conferences. Our Tweets are getting out there and we have seen them re-tweeted.
**The LOPSAGram is coming up and if Board members have anything for it they should forward it to Ski as soon as possible.

* Project Management report
No report
* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
Our LC Chair has been unresponsive to attempts to speak to him. Philip was asked to step in as President to contact him and see where we are. There was a request that by the next meeting someone prepare a timeline and document how hard it was to stay in contact the LC Chair.



== LOPSA-U Idea... (Ski) ==
I would like to propose that we set up formal LOPSA branded training that we do at conferences called LOPSA-U. The idea is to get LOPSA's name out there more so folks hear about it instead of SCALE-U. I have a lead on a company that would be willing to help sponsor LOPSA-U (we are talking about $1000, but maybe more). The idea is that our trainers would have a slide at the start and end of the presentations saying this tutorial brought to you by LOPSA and <Sponsorname>, it would mention our booths (if we have them), and their would be some materials provided by LOPSA and the sponsor at the back of the room.

I met with a person from South East LinuxFest (SELF) and he was open to having LOPSA-U at his location. The potential sponsor is attending that one, Ohio, and the Northeast for sure (maybe more). If we go for this I see us needing speakers (I could do some of these), literature, marketing (yes me again), but I think it would be a good way to get the LOPSA brand out there.

Texas Linuxfest (May 31-Jun 1, Austin, TX)
South East LinuxFest (Jun 7-9, Charlotte, NC) (we could get the new local to help out).
Ohio Linuxfest (Sep 13-15, Columbus, OH) (we have a local here also)

For the Texas and SELF, we have to contact them soon if we are going to do this as they need to block out the rooms for us (I am not sure that Texas would be willing to do it).

There may be issues with the Conferences changing there names. The thought is to have a LOPSA-U day and hopefully have the sponsor back the trainer which would save us. South East LinuxFest has asked us to get to them within the next few weeks if we are going to go. Ski will contact the sponsor and South East Linuxfest and see what they say. The focus will be South East LinuxFest attending.

Going forward it might be possible to have the LOPSA-U brand on the Local Conferences.

It was brought up having an Online presence of LOPSA-U.

== Sponsorships... (Ski) ==
In addition to our standard media, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum sponsors; I would like to add the following sponsorships and start advertising them to our sponsors:

WiAC: $500 - $1500:
LOPSA will advertise and solicit essays from women who want to attend the WiAC workshop at the Federated conferences. The top essayists will win the stipend and are required to write up a blog post for LOPSA after they attend. LOPSA will advertise the stipend as sponsored by <sponsorname> on our website, newsletter, and media feeds.

Group memberships: If a corporation purchases 4 memberships at full price for their staff, they get one membership free (end result is like they are getting 5 at our discounted price).

Sponsor LOPSA conference training: See above.
This might help drive sponsorship as their sponsorship money would go directly go to that purpose.

== WiAC'13 (Disney) ==
Prepared to announce stipend in same manner as last year (on lopsa.org with publicity through LOPSA comm channels). Propose using http://www.crowdrise.com/crowdrise for fundraising additional stipend amounts. Announcement for March LOPSAgram. Discussion or questions?

Why wouldn't we just use CiviPledge so it integrates in with the rest of our contact tracking and finances? It is designed to be used like a PBS pledge "I pledge $20." The other third party sites are fine but you get lost in the other drives. It would look better if we have the drive coming from our site.

CiviPledge will be investigated and seen if it will help our efforts. The idea is to keep it easy for our users and members to use.

Everyone agrees to use the crowd funding option as it will aid us in our sponsorship.

An experimental pledge will be put into Civi for testing.

===Proposal to promote WiAC===
It was suggested that we build on recent video on sysadmins. We start getting a few women involved in scripting the video and collecting videos and pictures and start creating a video on WiAC. A mailing list will be created.

== New Business ==


== Notes/announcements ==
Each board member is asked to update who you think would be a good contact for a sponsorship.
Ski explained how he has been approaching sponsorships. Basically he has been sending information to any sales person that approaches him. He entered the template into Civi. He dug around in Civi and found that a large amount of sponsorship have fallen by the wayside and we should try and get them back. He has had only one big response. But is worth the effort.

It was suggested that when we approach a potential a sponsor we should have a purpose so we can go to a sponsor and say "Hey we have this WiAC scholarship would you like sponsor it" as one example.

== Adjournment ==
Motion to Adjournment by Matt
Second by William

Board meeting Minutes/11 Feb 2013

2013-03-27T04:03:14Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/11_Feb_2013

{{minutes box|before=28 Jan 2013|after=25 Feb 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Martin Gehrke (may be a bit late), Dan Rich,John Boris,Matt Disney (late), Ski Kacoroski

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey (started new job today - working late tonight), Jesse Trucks,

;Opened: 20:05 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:39 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* Pushed to next meeting

== Action Items ==
* Everyone needs to check RT at least once a week
* If you reply to a ticket, "take" it so it doesn't stay unassigned (I'm looking for an RT script to automate this)

== Standing Reports ==
* Treasurer's report
** On hold as Evan has started a new job

* Membership report
** Summary provided, numbers were better

* Technical services report
** Ski is waiting for Puppet Labs info to be posted so he can notify the sponsor. He will put a ticket in the Tech Services Queue.

* Conference/events activities report
** Cascadia and LOPSA-East are open.
** Scale is in two weeks. We will be teaching two classes. We requested to be next to USENIX.
** Cascadia Sponsors picking up.
** HP asked for a W9 Form document and William is sending it out.
** John asked how the tables are handled at the conferences. William and Ski explained that they are usually free for non-profits. Also if we do any other conferences. There have been suggestions to go to other conferences. Philip stated it always hinges on availability and personnel to man the table. These are sent to people/companies that have contacted him.

* Mentorship Status report
** 2 mentors and proteges were added. Thomas gave Phil help on the mentorship question for the Spiceworks interview

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Ski explained the steps Ski did to get Puppet on board. He explained that he uses Quick text in Thunderbird and when he sees a company he sends out the email. Puppet was his first success out of three responses.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Ski is pushing Cascadia applicants and sponsors. He is trying to get the social media names to communications@LOPSA.org so it is not under his name. He is working with Scale for press releases. He is looking for contacts to send Press releases.
** Looking to get a tall vertical add so Matt Simmons can put it on his site.
** He is also looking to get a press release group up in Civi so it makes it easier to send Press Releases.
** Martin says that there is a LOPSA-Live coming up and it will stay on IRC as he hasn't found a newer medium.
** William mentioned we have Go-To-Webinar available. Martin is trying to find a person who will do the moderating if we go to Video or Audio.

* Project Management report
** Awaiting Jesse

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** William contacted Parter and will report back by next meeting. He has at least one other person who will run in the next election.

== T-Shirt Procurement (Bilancio)==
* I have talked with Inkspill which is the company that does the printing of the Business Cards.
* They have come up with a price for the t-shirts as well as being the facilitators of storing/shipping all shirts.
** Pricing details provided.
* Once we make the decision on what we want to do we can set up the store on the web site and have all orders forward to Inkspill.
* It was brought up that we will have to keep the monies raised separate from donations and sales.
* A consensus was meant to start with the T-Shirts
* Art Work should be in art department in EPS format.
* Matt asked about Collared shirts. Dan said there is a problem with the Lands End Store. Matt said that he gets a lot of questions and comments on the long sleeved shirts with the LOPSA Logo.
* Matt also stated that we have to be more diligent in keeping the monies collected by donations and Sales for the 990 forms. Any questions on the financial side Evan or Matt should be contacted.
* Martin mentioned there was a local chapter member who had an embroidery service that could handle large runs. Lands End is Just in Time.
* If there is a large request for the embroidered items we can revisit this and see if we can do a large run.
* Consensus is to go with the T Shirts

== New Business ==

Philip will include an item for brainstorming and bootstrap our solicitation for sponsorship. Start thinking about the vendors you use or would like to use

== Adjournment ==
Motion for adjournment Dan
Second William

Board meeting Minutes/28 Jan 2013

2013-03-27T04:02:56Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/28_Jan_2013

{{minutes box|before=14 Jan 2013|after=11 Feb 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Matt Disney (late)

;Apologies: Martin Gehrke, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:04 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 21:05 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* Minutes are on hold.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Evan needs to move money to tier one and Jesse can help with the credentials.
** We have our NJ Sales tax certificate. Change the Sage to LOPSA. If we can. Evan will look into it.
** Ski has a general sponsorship letter we can use to send out. It looks like everyone is having a hard time drumming up business.
** William says that it is budget time and the economy is slow. Ski thinks they may be earmarking their money to more product specific areas.
** Dan feels we should be more specific to our potential sponsors as to what we want to use their money for.

* Membership report
*** Summary provided, no responses for non-renewals
** It looks like PayPal pro is helping.

* Technical services report
** Slight problem with tech team going to Splunk. Mail got messed up for a bit and all was fixed by Friday of last week. The Tech team will discuss the issue.

* Conference/events activities report
** SCALE coming up.
** Cascadia getting ready to open
** LOPSA-East just rolled out their schedule and web site
** SCALE coming up.
*** 1 trainer, 2 classes due to a loss of a room. Aleksey is doing both classes.
*** Dan, Ski is working the table. We are next to USENIX. Ski is setting up signupgenius for the volunteers

* Mentorship Status report
** Weekly Meeting (Google Hangout) held Thursday Jan 24. Discussed LOPSAGram The team developed a request for people to be part of the core team. I will be acting as a quasi Co-Chair until Edward gets through the Fiscal year crush on his end. (Probably after April 15th). Me and Lois are on Call next week.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc)
** LOPSAGram will go out this week - content appreciated
** Please fill out lopsa-live doodle for Feb.
** Working with William to get Ad up on Matt Simmons blog
** Ski and Phil will discuss a hangout

* Project Management report
No Report this week

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Dan would like to pass the LC coordinator position over to William.
*** Need: LC status, election status, communication plan

== D&O Insurance Update (Kizer) ==
* Summary: new provider is now active

== SIGs (Pettrey) ==
* Evan met with Nathan Harvey. Nathen is interested in potentially making DevOpsDC the first LOPSA SIG. Evan says they have about 400 members. Our Policy needs a review to see if it is still current.
* DevOPsDc is better as an affiliate
* Discussion of what is a SIG. Define difference between a SIG and an Affiliate. General consensus that this doesn't really fit our definition of a SIG.

== WiAC Stipend (Disney) ==
* I would like LOPSA to match a $750 donation in order to guarantee at least one $1500 stipend for WiAC '13 ($750 commitment by LOPSA). I would also like to pursue a crowd-funding effort to fund a second stipend, which would either increase the stipend to $2000 or provide a second stipend.
* Motion by Matt that LOPSA commits to match a $750 donation to provide for $1500 stipend for Wiac
* William second
* Motion approved.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned for adjournment
William second

Board meeting Minutes/14 Jan 2013

2013-03-27T04:02:42Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/14_Jan_2013

{{minutes box|before=17 Dec 2012|after=28 Jan 2013}}

{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Martin Gehrke, Dan Rich, Evan Pettrey, John Boris, Matt Disney,Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:00 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 21:03 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* ''' Minutes of {{minutes link|17 Dec 2012}}''' were approved

== Standing Reports ==
* Open Tickets.
** There are no specific tickets to point out.
* Treasurer's report
** Evan gave financial report. PayPal administration is being difficult. He will stay on top of this to get it resolved.
* Membership report
** It is hard to report which are new or renewed because of the way Civi reports the numbers. He suggested looking at the recent reports to see the numbers. About a tenth renewed during the sale.
** Discussion about relative numbers and the holidays not allowing time for LISA.
** We should hit non-renewals with an email and ask why they did not renew.
* Technical services report
** Some projects are at a stand-still due to other work requirements. Jesse isn't on the call so we cannot get a full report.
** William has Forums at the top of his list; there are issues with the forums and their interface with Drupal.
** Our site handled LISA very well and there weren't any slow downs like last year. William credits Mike Julian for that with the work Mike did after he (William) and Jesse got everything moved over. Mike is still working on it.
* Conference/events activities report
**SCaLE
*** We are going to SCaLE and we have a table. We have two training classes set up and Aleksey will run them. We were supposed to get 4 rooms but we lost two of the rooms. We may get them back but in a way it helped out as he would of had to send a person from the East cost. We might try to get another room. The classes will be Aleksey's Time management class and his Beginner vi class. William will have numbers for Evan to send a contract out to Aleksey. William will get Ski the info so he can start publishing it.
*** Ski asked about guarding the door of the class. William said that is on his To-Do list to have that taken care of so we will not have to do that. If we need someone he will know in the next few days.
*** Ski will set up the signupgenius.com site to get volunteers for the table like we did at LISA.
**Cascadia-IT
*** Cascadia has announced their pricing and class schedules. They are still accepting papers for invited talks. If you want there is still time to get one in.
*** Cascadia registration will be open soon.
**LOPSA-East
*** LOPSA-East has their schedule done.
** William is thinking about bringing back Crossbow and will be looking for someone to take it over. He has to find someone to be able to do that. He will still be the Board contact but he is getting busy with a bunch of things and needs to get this handed off. At least handling the day to day stuff, LOPSA-East, SCaLE and other LOPSA only events. Also maybe looking for other venues for us.

* Mentorship Status report
** John brought up about finalizing something for the volunteers that gave the presentation at LISA. This was discussed at an October Board meeting. Big influx of mentors and proteges from LISA.

* Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc) ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Ski asked Martin to get the Locals to send in what is going on. He has been contacting a lot of people about sponsors. Dell gave us a discount. Need more content for the LG. Martin has the LOPSA-Live Doodle up for February.

* Project Management report
** Minimal progress on the projects. He thinks that the nature of the projects it is better to make the reports quarterly. He has some delays between home and work and has been trying to catch up.
** Philip asked Jesse if he is still working on the tools to use for tracking. Jesse thinks he has settled on one. He will send Philip something later this week.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** William and Dan will both contact the LC by at least Wednesday by phone.

== Directors and Officers Insurance (Evan) ==
* Status and discussion
** Agent and backer had different time-frames on past actions we are resolving. He will probably hear back shortly. Once he hears back he will let people know.
** Jesse asked if we can get coverage, afford it and how long before we get it.
** Philip thinks we should be able to get the new contract by the end of February
** Evan summarized the expected costs and considers them reasonable
** Evan says that the info is shared on Google Drive showing the work in progress
** Jesse stated that if this is not resolved by early February he will resign.
** Much more discussion and links relative to NJ law

== Tech Team paging service (Jesse) ==
* Request for monthly service... details coming.
* The Tech Team is trying to improve their job of monitoring and managing things.
* Tech team is testing a pager service it will be $36 a month for four on point people to handle issues. The Tech Team would be able to be on top of issues that come up. They would be able to put anyone in who is on Pager Duty
* That way they can be more proactive. Jesse felt that it was important to bring to the board for discussion.
* Dan stated that Pager Duty has been approaching him and other sysadmins for quite a while and asked if Pager Duty could do this as a sponsorship. Maybe a discount for us.
* Jesse stated he has not done this but would go that route and see what happens.
* Dan stated maybe mentioning in our LOPSAGram a couple time or even giving our members a discount.
* Matt has contacted them before about discounts and the like but they were not warming up to that. This was in the past year. He did say he would dig up the information and see what he can find.
* Jesse will get back to them to see if they can do this as a sponsorship. If they turn us down is it okay to work with Evan to get an account setup.
* Philip says we need the notification but Jesse should try to work out a deal and if that fails to get with Evan.

== Square Reader Proposal... (Ski) ==
* I would like to purchase (2) iPOD touches for us to keep with the conference materials and use at conferences. I can get them for about $100 used online so they are the least expensive option and I think they work better with the Square a bit better than android devices.
* Ski has looked at various Android devices but none of them work very well. He was thinking about sending out an email to the membership asking if they have an iPod Touch or similar device laying around in their drawer they might like to donate to the cause. They would be perfect. They work with Square. After LISA he needs a reliable device.
* William asked Evan to look into PayPal for their Swiper and since we have a PayPal account if that will make it easier. He likes Ski's idea but thinks we should try the PayPal version.
* Evan will look into the PayPal. Square was 2.75% and PayPal might be different. Ski said PayPal is 2.67%.
* William asked Evan to contact PayPal about their new swiper William likes the idea.
* Evan will look into it. He will compare the rates. Square was 2.75% and PayPal may be cheaper. The device would be sent to Ski to use at Scale. Evan is ordering the PayPal swiper and it is agreed for Ski to send out an email to the members.
* William asked we should at least get one to try. Evan asked where to have it sent. William said to send it to Ski so he could use it at ScALE. Ski agreed with that.

== Video Proposal... (Ski) ==
Out of LISA came a need to really have a place to put videos.

There are three areas where videos would be helpful for use: conferences, locals, and system admin training. The concept is you are trying to create ssh keys and the screen is captured.

* Livestream will cost $42/month (paid on a yearly basis so $504/yr). LOPSA provides this and the locals/conferences provide their own equipment. We can have one recording and multiple viewing at a time. Use cases are:
* Conferences & Locals : Will need a PC or Mac and webcam ($80 for a recommended one). Better would be a camera with optical zoom ($300) that can stream to a Mac workstation vi thunderwire. Use this to stream sessions to the conference event. Afterwards put links to the event on conference web page, etc.
* Training: Concept is that when a system admin starts to solve a problem, they can turn on livestream, the webcam on their computer, and then stream their desktop as they solve the problem. We would link to these from our website and also get schools and online services like Opsschool to link to it.
* At this time I am still practicing with my personal accounts, but I plan to ask for volunteers who want to work on this. Once we get some processes down, I plan to ask to the board to approve the $$$.
* Ski is hoping to do this at Cascadia.
* Philip likes the idea. He thinks we should be doing something as this would increase interest long term
* Dan says that we have to get agreements from people that they are being videoed allow us to post them on the site. They should be behind the pay wall. Put local meetings in front of the Pay wall to entice them to join. Similar to BayLISA.
* William mentioned that LOPSA-NJ did their meeting with an iPad and did a Google Hangout. John Boris did most of the work on it. LOPSA-NJ will keep everyone appraised. LOPSA-NJ is not going to the next meeting as it will be a cluster meeting. We are looking to do the March meeting using Google Hangout.
* John explained about using the iPad. The microphone is the issue. You have to really work with the sound. We videotaped the last one as well as the hangout. Sound was poor and the mike was only four rows from the speaker. Also bandwidth has to be considered along with the connection. Our connection kept dropping.
John volunteered to help Ski with that.
* Jesse say his local has been kicking this around and is very interested in this. Their meetings have been very well attended (approx. 25 members per month). He was thinking of having a virtual meeting. This would make this possible where we could have speakers from all over the world. He sees the problem is the software infrastructure is the issue.
* Dan said that BayLISA does a lot of this and asked if Livestream had any bandwidth issues. Example we have a 90 minute meeting. Ski doesn't think so and will verify it. USENIX uses Live Stream so it looks good but Ski wants to make sure we have content providers.
* Dan commented that as long as there are no bandwidth charges it looks good for us.
* Dan sees this a lot with web comic artists. Both Dan and Ski agree we need content before we go through with this.
* Martin said that before we go out and ask for content we should have a list of topics we are looking for so we get content we can used. Dan agreed.
* Philip asked Ski if he had his direction. Ski stated he will go ahead and report back.

== SCaLE... (Ski) ==
* This was covered under conferences

== Mentorship Acknowledgement (John) ==
* Thomas has suggested the board send some Merchandise to the four Volunteers on the mentorship Team Ed, Lois, Nick and Lawrence. I mentioned this at another board meeting.
John wants to give Thomas a definite answer. William asked how many luggage tags he wants. John mentioned we give them kudos in the LOPSA Gram.
* William has a quote for T shirts but it is missing the shipping. William will go back and see the total cost. Once set all we have to do is turn on the front end on the Web Site.
* William will present this at the next meeting.
* Philip has some donated books from Cisco. Philip will get them documented and out.

== Harassment Policy (Kizer) ==
* Verbal review with possible adoption if suitable
** Link to: LOPSA Policy on Hostile Conduct and Harassment at Conferences and Events

* Dan asked about the comments on the Policy and Philip said that it looks as though the comments are tied to the text and since he removed the text the comments may have went with them. Dan stated he really doesn't remember his comments and would like to see them. Philip stated all y9ou have to do is click on versions and you will see them.
* Philip has harassment policy up for review and wants to ratify this at the next meeting.
* Dan thought it was more conference centric and maybe we should also include IRC, forums etc.
* Philip thought the rules of etiquette applied with other areas. If he wants it more electronic he will have to redo it. If the rules of etiquette does not apply do we get rid of it. Dan doesn't think it conflicts. IRC rules are specific that we can ridicule you etc. So a one liner where this could apply in other forums where the LOPSA name is used.
* Matt is for the document and is happy to ratify. He wonders if we need more procedure or formality at the bottom of the document.
* Phil agrees we need formal procedure but the document should be more generic.
* Dan says he is okay with it being ratified tonight as long as everyone has read it since we can always amend it.

* Jesse moves that the Board moves and accepts the Harassment Policy proposed by Philip.
* Dan seconded the motion.
* A voice vote was taken and it was a unanimous vote.

* Jesse spoke on how difficult that was to get that together and how important it was for us to get this out to show our membership how we are backing them.

== Notes/announcements ==
* Matt spoke on how his group has grown at ORNL and he now has a bit more work that he should be able to continue with his level of involvement with the board. He wants to stay on the board. He wanted to know if anyone is opposed to his level of commitment he is willing to talk about it. He is happy to have an open discussion on his level of commitment to the board.

* Philip thanked him for the disclosure and will chat with him.

== Adjournment ==
A motion to adjourn by Ski seconded by William

Board meeting Minutes/19 Nov 2012

2013-03-27T04:01:53Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/19_Nov_2012

{{minutes box|before=5 Nov 2012|after=3 Dec 2012}}

{{minutes approved|3 Dec 2012}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Martin Gehrke, Dan Rich, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Ski Kacoroski
;Apologies: Evan Pettrey

;Opened: 20:01 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:59 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approved minutes of {{minutes link|10 Sep 2012}}'''
* '''Approved minutes of {{minutes link|24 Sep 2012}}'''
Links need to be removed before moved to governance.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt could not give any info on the Treasures report as he hasn't had a chance to speak with Evan.

* Membership report
** Summary reported, ideas solicited for retaining non-renewers

* Technical services report
** Jesse stated that the Team is near to completing the development server. It should be available soon.
** Martin would like to find the procedure for getting items for the Locals when they ask. (Web site, email address etc). William asked if they (the Tech Team) missed something and Martin said no he is just asking. William suggested putting in a help ticket. Jesse asked to get together (William, Jesse and Martin) and develop the list of things a local will need.
Volunteers for LISA are being handled by signupgenius.com.

* Conference/events activities report
** Scale is an active area of activity.
** LOPSA-East has their CFP out and Cascadia is looking for Sponsors.
** Martin mentioned he is reaching out to Locals for information on their events.

* Mentorship Status report
** Jesse stated the LMPT is on track. There is an automation test of the mailing list. He feels by the end of the month they should be ready to go. The LISA launch still looks good.

Any time somebody does volunteer in addition to what they do they should get on the list as a mentor. It does not obligate them to do any mentorship, it means they will get a list of the possible proteges so they will see what is going on.
Ski asked that as soon as he can get the go ahead he can start posting info about mentorship to build up interest into the launch.

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

* Communications report
** Second LinkedIn ad is running. We are up to 4,000 to 5,000 views. Our name is getting out there. He hasn't tried the Google Ads yet.
** Ski commended Martin what he is doing on LOPSA live. He is doing a great job.
** Philip mentioned we may have a sponsorship offer for LISA. Ski verified that they are mulling it over and might just give us some give-away stuff. William asked if he needed to speak to them but Ski said he is doing fine.
**Ski revised the LOPSAGram and the template needs fixing.
**LOPSA-Live (Martin)
*** Martin thanked Dan and Jesse for getting him the perl script to do some analysis. He is going to only one session and is looking into a video LOPSA-Live. He expects it to be late January so look for a Doodle shortly to locked down a time.
*** William asked if the two in one night was worth it. Martin said it wasn't worth it and we did not double our attendance. Martin will continue to try new things to get our attendance numbers up.

* Project Management report
** There will be a more complete report after the Holidays.
** Generally it looks that we are getting a deliverable on our projects and any delays have been explained.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** The LC Chair is working through the list.

== LISA 2012... (Ski) ==
* Looks like we are getting lots of volunteers - set up page at signupgenius to manage them and it is being filled out.
* Need a 1 page sales pitch for people to talk from
* Ski is creating a draft. Philip is putting on the agenda for the next meeting with your critical talking points for your elevator pitch.
* Martin asked about having board@lopsa.org on the reply. He got spammed on the replies when people declined.
* Yerkes award recipient decided - need to get an award. William takes the lead on getting it.
* Will work on annual meeting notes this weekend. Ski and Philip
** Need input for Annual meeting from:
*** Evan - Finances
*** Dan - Membership
*** Jesse - Mentorship
*** William - LOPSA-East
*** Martin - Locals
*** Matt, John - if you have anything I missed, please let me know
* Dan will email every individual sponsorship and make sure we have their correct level of sponsorship and ask if they wanted to be a sponsor for LISA.
* Jesse will get from the LMPT for what they want for their slides so you will have that for the meeting. It should be about 3 or 4 slides. The LMPT wants to have a raffle for the people in the LMPT program. We have about four prizes. Jesse isn't sure if it was publicly announced. The mechanism was reportedly horrible last year. Jesse is asking if it was possible that we present the LMPT with something at LISA publicly. William stated we have nothing in inventory for that available right now an Jesse will think of something else.
* Reiterating that the drawing disorganized last year but if we improve it a bit we can do it in the public. Ski has a plan.
* Looks like I will have a few items to raffle off at the Annual Meeting (books)
* Still no luck on LOPSA After Dark
** Doesn't look like it will happen. The best bet is to get someone to sponsor it. Philip likes the idea of the ice cream social. Philip asked William to look into that with the interested vendor.
* Need password for square or PayPal system. We do not have a PayPal device but we do need the password.
* William is waiting for the date to ship everything. William responded to an inquiry that the laptops from 2011 were loaned and do not have any in inventory.
* William has the picture frame and Dan has everything to put on there. Dan will ship the data to William so he can load it before it is shipped.
* Dan said when we take money from people at the booth if you could update the website right there. In the past the emails were not entered correctly and it created a mess and a lot of work afterwards to match up the memberships.

== New Award Committee (Martin) ==
* I think we need to make a more concerted effort to formalize and expand our Awards.
* Initially I see a couple new awards beyond the Yerkes award.
** New Volunteer Award (for people who have been with LOPSA less than 3? years)
** Volunteer Award (for people who have been with LOPSA > 3? years)
* For a volunteer based organization we should do a better job of showing appreciation for our volunteers. This would also spread the word about the volunteer opportunities.
* More awards are possible and likely. I think our board members should not be eligible for the awards while in office, but we should definitely do something for outgoing board members considering the amount of time the positions require. This year I sent out certificates, but we could make it more publicly.
* In the spirit of all this, I wouldn't make the suggestion without also volunteering to head up the effort. We already have the Yerkes award set up, so starting all this in 2013 would make sense.
* This could tie in with Dan's work for member benefits.
* A suggestion was made that an award should also be given out at a LOPSA function rather than just at LISA. We should aim to have our awards handed out at our events. Martin is concerned that LOPSA-East is early. William said it doesn't have to be this year. Philip mentioned that we don't have to do a Calendar year but do an award year.
* Jesse agrees to do it a LOPSA event. If the award is being given to a member from a Local chapter we could have the award presented at the local chapters meeting by the chapter head or even a board member if they are present.
* Jesse also stated that a short policy be drafted for the committee and then when it is approved the committee could then get started.
* Martin thanks the board. He will get started on the draft policy. William stated he would like to be on the committee. William stated that it was already stated that a board member is not eligible for an award. Jesse stated that he thought the limit for giving an award without a vote is $200 or $250. William said he would get some prices together for awards. Martin then asked about awards in kind like free passes to LOPSA events (Cascadia, LOPSA-East). William stated Evan would have to be consulted. Jesse stated that if a training organization would like to give away a class that would be fine.
* Martin is asking if the standing committee would hand them out . He was thinking of even Thank You certificates that could be handed out at the local meeting.
* Jesse asks if there is an award in mind right now we should move forward on it now. He likes the idea that an award does not have to be expensive just something that recognizes the effort /action of the volunteer. Martin asked if there was any award that someone wanted to give out now.
* Philip asked that we think on that for next meeting.
* William stated we have an awards committee. William sent Martin the lInk to the Awards committee wiki page.

== WiAC Stipend (Disney) ==
* I propose we pursue another LOPSA stipend for the WiAC conference. Should we seek donations for this and, if so, what is the most appropriate way?
* Last year some people stepped up to sponsor this and he felt more of our members would donate to LOPSA if we show we are using this the right way.
* Dan said Civi has a pledge portion that we could set a goal and then when it gets near the goal it would put some type of odometer on your web site.
* Matt asked if we should mention this at the Community meeting and if people want to donate to the cause they could do so. Dan thinks this is reasonable and Philip said they would look into this.
* John stated that we as a board set a certain amount and that we ask a sponsor to add the remaining amount. We need to be able to remain fluid with sponsorship levels. Last year LOPSA sponsored one and a long time friend of LOPSA sponsored a second one.
* Martin asked if there were pages on this from Last year where we can point people to. Philip said there are articles and a search for WiAC would pull them up.

== New Business ==

* Martin has the Locals Policy up and needs comments.
* Dan asked for an updated list of our Corporate sponsors (he needs it for the photo frame for LISA).
* Philip asked again the board members to look at the companies they deal with and see which ones might be good candidates for corporate sponsorship.

== Notes/announcements ==
* William announced that LOPSA-East just landed Fujitsu as a Bronze sponsor. They will be at the conference and he will deal with them for a LOPSA at large sponsorship.

== Adjournment ==
Jesse motioned for adjournment and William seconded.

Board meeting Minutes/5 Nov 2012

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{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Evan Pettrey, John Boris, Jesse Trucks

;Apologies: Dan Rich

;Opened: 20:01 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:42 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* On hold

== Action Items ==
* In Dan's absence Ski and William said they have to review their tickets and close them.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt completed the work on the 990s. Evan is not sure if they have been accepted. He is starting to adjust the accounts. Filings have been accepted and we are awaiting status. He mentioned about waiting about a month to play it safe. Evan has the insurance information. Evan needs to know what has to be done to officially close the previous account. Philip will coordinate with Matt and Evan to get things officially signed.

* Membership report
** Philip asked for any info on membership in Dan's absence. Martin has nothing to report.

* Technical services report
** William has nothing. Jesse says that the Backup test server will be built soon. He doesn't see any problems. The big test will be at LISA and Cascadia and PICC (LOPSA-East). Dan did not get the membership renewal thing fixed. Jesse reported a recent problem with the membership tech. The problem was a pointer to the wrong database. William noted after the fix the reload of the page is faster. Jesse commented on the slow speed NJ suffers on the net. William noted that even with the filtering the pages did load faster.

* Conference/events activities report
** William reported that LISA is coming up (Ski) LOPSA-East has CFPs are out and they end on the 29th. Please get your papers in. Cascadia is looking for Sponsors and Papers and trainers. William could not contact SCaLE due to Sandy. William asked Ski to see if we can get the Wireshark class from last year (it was dumped due to a storm). Ski acknowledged and would check on that. There was a big sign up and due to the large Seattle Ice storm it was cancelled.

* Mentorship Status report
** Jesse stated LMPT is making progress and they are on target. The web pages are being corrected and sanity checks of the automation and web pages. It has to be finished by the end of the month to allow for people going to LISA will have enough time to prepare. Jesse told Ski that LMPT should be ready for LISA for the big announcement. They will not make the announcement if it is not ready. LMPT will keep Ski posted about announcing the new automation.

* Communications report
** LinkedIn ads - summary. Need to refresh the ad. Ski feels it is getting our name out there.
** Also have coupon for Google Ads. Ski will do the same with that as he did in LinkedIn.
** He will start posting requests for Local Group meetings. Ski will start some Twitter about locals as Martin asked for his so he figured he would do it for all. LOPSAGram is going out tonight.
** Matt Simmons may have found a Volunteer to do the LOPSAGram.
** Ski asked about needed ad details which are still not available and will sort out the disconnect.
** William asked Ski if Warren if Ohio Columbus chapter got in touch with him. Ski responded that he did and they sent over a lot of info for the LOPSAGram.

* Project Management report
** Jesse stated we had a few things finished. He expects to have a report by the end of the week. Everyone has been moving along without any harassment. The locals have been doing great. Hopefully Martin will get his policy ready for review. Our goals are not very aggressive but he hopes after we get over some delays we can get a bit more aggressive. We are doing a lot for foundations. He feels we are not thinking big enough. He is worried about the lapsing members. He hopes that we are steering in the right direction and not drifting astray.
Philip asked if he is pinging Jesse enough. Jesse agreed.

== LISA Prep... (Ski) ==
* LOPSA After Dark. The hotel reports that our options are really limited. Philip is mailing some local contacts for suggestions. In lieu of nothing nearby maybe setting up in one of the bar areas. Ski suggested bringing something in to a room or the lobby. Matt mentioned about the high cost of bringing in food. Maybe have a longer meeting or BoF, have a break out group. Also maybe get a sponsor for the meeting. He thinks we had about 100 at the last one. So maybe it would be worth it for a sponsor. Ski said he could try it. William asked if a particular vendor is doing a Paid BoF. William suggested Ski contact the vendor and see if they would be interested in sponsoring the LOSPA Meeting.
* Yerkes award ideas
** Various lists and forums were reviewed for stand-outs.
** The committee has suggested a few members for considerations.
** Philip gave some background on the Yerkes award and discussed some of the criteria
* Matt suggested they we really try hard to plan out the community meeting. If we over plan it will still come out well. It is important that we plan it out early on this year. Philip agrees. William asked who is actually going to LISA. It may just be Ski, Philip and possibly Dan. Philip asked that we urgently request volunteers. Ski has it on the list for LOPSA-Live.

=== #LOPSA-Live ===
* Date: Thursday Nov 15
* Attendance confirmations verified with those on the call
* New Format: 7pm EST for East Coast, repeat @ 10pm EST for West Coast to try and increase our audience, if not we'll try something else.
* Admonition to fill in the agenda.
* Martin will try to keep it to an hour. We will reassess after the forum.
* William will not be able to make the East Coast version. He will update Martin so Martin can do the East Coast version.
* Jesse thought the Doodle unclear, so some people were confused. Jesse will have a lot to speak about.

===Local Chapter Policy===
* Martin put the new policy on the Board Wiki and asked people to comment on it.

===Conference Harassment Policy===
* The first draft is out there for comment. William found an example from the Kansas City BBQ Society. There is no electronic copy. He is trying to get the judging book and scan it and get it to Philip.
* Philip will look at it and then add what he can and forward it to a Women's Policy Organization for input.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned we adjourn, William seconded. We are adjourned 20:42

Board meeting Minutes/22 Oct 2012

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{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 20:02 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:35 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* On Hold

== Action Items ==

* Dan asked again to go through the unowned tickets and if it is in your area take ownership.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt has been working on the 990s and will review them after the meeting.
** Discussion about the various accounts, account use preference and finishing individual authorization on them.

* Membership report
* Dan restates we need more members and the lapsed members continues to go up. He has to get on the membership project to see how we can energize the lapsed members to rejoin.

* Technical services report
** William says we are on the Server Beach servers. We are still live on BitPusher's and they haven't responded to our tickets. he will take care of that tomorrow.
** Jesse will have the Tech Team start on the Backup dev server by the end of next week we should have the dev site set up. hopefully it will not take longer.
** Evan reports on final financial obligations with the old provider. William verified that there is no traffic going to the old provider. He will put another ticket.
** Philip asked if we did enough SRMs and stuff to do a halt. William said we could but he rather have them turn off the server.

* Conference/events activities report

** William just got an email from elliam and he has to get back to them. They want us to do training we are trying to get the Deeppacket guy and we may need two or three more. He will touch base with him about Scale.
** LOPSA-East is moving along and the CFPs are out and they are looking for sponsors. Things are moving fine.
** Cascadia is moving but they have not needed to talk in the last week.
** William commented they are looking for sponsors. He is trying to get Solar Winds to sponsor more than the locals. Solar Winds share some historical anecdotes regarding previous conferences. William emphasized we have a lot of Windows Talks and tutorials so he hopes this will help.

* Mentorship Status report
Jesse spoke with Thomas Leyer about a Co-Chair. The new program is very close to launching the new automation. Jesse has to do some editing on the scripts and web stuff. At Thursday's meeting they will hammer out the details. they plan to be ready two weeks prior to LISA. If they are ready they will work with Ski to get the word out and would want to talk at LISA to make the announcement. The LMPT members that are at LISA will also have a BoF. This is kept low key until they are ready to make the move. The LMPT are working on a more long term regular multi pronged marketing effort to get more interest in the program so less people will be able to handle the program.

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Most of these topics are discussed in other topics. Philip has first draft of an harassment policy on Google Docs. He has two other documents that he will merge with it and will take any contributions other board members have.

* Communications
** Nothing new to report.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** D. Rich will report back in a few days with status.

== LISA 2012... (SKI) ==
* Go through the wiki page and see what we need to do.
* William asked if we were on the $40 cost for membership. Most believed that was now active.
* Ski reports that on the LISA page we have a shipping address. He assumes we will do the Squared thing to handle on site payments. He will have his Square device. D.Rich reported that PayPal has their Dongle available. William suggested that Evan order us a PayPal Dongle. D. Rich questioned if we could have more than one account on the PayPal app.

=== Ideas For LISA '12 (put all brainstorming ideas here for LISA'12) ===
* A suggestion for previous LISAs was that "someone" sponsor a LISA "First Timers" BoF. This is separate from the night-before first day Tutorials introduction session but might be a good thing to do on Tuesday night, the night before the Technical Sessions under the LOPSA banner. Recording here to move it from my private notes.
* Best Photo contest
* New member sign up contest
* Ski solicited more comments on the ideas.
* Philip is brain storming for a LOPSA After Dark. Ski says the Hotel site is not close to anywhere and we would have to travel to anything. So Ski is going to call the Hotel to see what is available in the Bar area. Taxis might be a way but it will be difficult. Nothing is in walking distance to the Hotel. Everyone agrees it is a bad spot. Ski is looking for a place that might hold about 30 people. He will set up a meeting with the USENIX board. LOPSA Live is Scheduled. William asked to push for Volunteers. Ski assigned shipping stuff to LISA. William confirmed stickers, banners, luggage tags, table cloths. We don't have generic business cards. We have the photo frame. Everything will be shipped out when he gets the shipping acceptance date.
Ski asked Dan to redo the Picture Frame pictures. Dan says we few corporate sponsors. We have to make sure we don't leave off any personal sponsors , especially Lee Damon. All sponsors need to be in Civi.
* Yerkes award: Philip heading committee to finalize. SKi asked if the Yerkes winner has to be a LOPSA Member. Philip confirmed that the winner does not have to be a LOPSA Member.
* Jesse asked Ski about getting a spot for the LMPT at the regular meeting and a space for a BoF. They need 3 minutes to announce the program, point people to the site and announce the BoF. Ski said it is on the agenda and asked the board to review the agenda. A few tried to coerce William to drive out there. Not many Board members will attend. Ski and Philip will handle the presentation.
* Ski asked for Board members to give a small write up about their area. If anything else that needs to be on the agenda please add it.

===Project Management ===
* Jesse said the default agenda needs to be edited. He will be putting together a report later this week so the status of the projects is the same. It will go out in an email to the board.

=== Mentorship Swag Request ===
* Jesse mentions that the Chair for the LMPT asked if we have any LOPSA Swag to send the Volunteers to the Board. William said to send him the addresses and he will send them what he has. He has a lot of Luggage tags and will gladly send some out. Philip mentioned he has Cisco books and can use them. he may bring some to LISA. William suggested shipping them.

=== Local Chapter Policy ===
* Philip queried Martin about progress on the Locals Policy.
* Martin sent out a request for comments from the committee and wants to know the next step. It is not ready for the board to review and will give it another week and then get it on the wiki for review.

== Adjournment ==
Jesse motioned for adjournment seconded by William
8:35 PM

Board meeting Minutes/8 Oct 2012

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{{minutes approved|25 Feb 2013}}

* 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.

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Ski Kacoroski, Dan Rich, John Boris, Martin Gehrke

;Apologies: Evan Pettrey,

;Opened: 20:02 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 20:47 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|25 Aug 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|25-26 Aug 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

* Everyone needs to be reviewing the custserv and board cases and taking them! (and/or deleting the spam)
* Too many tickets without owners. Voicemail needs to be picked up. William suggested that Philip take Ticket#641
Martin will look into #625. William asked again that we all keep an eye on our ticketsthe Cutomer Service queue
Rubi Bedrunin had questions about Locals in Europe. Philip will get the info to Martin.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Next report will be after vacation is over
* Membership report
** Martin asked how much is involved in getting the gift membership working. Dan is looking into that.
* Technical services report
** We are on the new server. A conference call meeting is planned with the Tech Team to talk about direction and break up of duties. They are ready to kill the bitpusher servers. Jesse has started the bps started and needs to get some paperwork to get it rolling. They hope to start redesigning the entire site.
* Conference/events activities report
** William gave status on LOPSA-East. Evan Pettrey has been selected as the Co-Chair for LOPSA-East and next years Chair. <s>Evan is [unclear]</s>
** Sponsorship package for LOPSA-East is out. CFPs for Cascadia and LOPSA-East are out. Cascadia's web site is up and working.
** OLF went well. It ran the same time as the Ohio Comicon was on and the table had some interesting visitors. Still waiting to hear back from SCALE.
* Mentorship Status report
** The Team is still working on their automation and getting ready to launch at LISA.
** William asked about a mentorship email with a name he wasn't familiar with.
** Jesse mentioned how work was being delegated.
** Lawrence Chen is a member of the LMPT.
** John asked about getting notified about the Google hangouts. John will double check about being on the list.
* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
* Communications
Ski spoke about getting the LOPSA Gram. He is meeting with Julie about LISA. He asked for input from the board for LISA. He is getting other social media reports together
* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Dan and Parter have been trying to set up a regular meeting. They have been exchanging emails and Dan has been forwarding contact info to Parter so he can continue to build his list of candidates.

== Chapter Approval Process... (Ski) ==
There are different interpretations of how to approve a provisional chapter (gray area in policy). This item is to clear up this gray area and decide on a clear process.
Ski asked Martin to speak on his Draft policy and he has it in front of the committee and is waiting to hear from them before it gets put to the board.
William thinks a Chapter is a Chapter whether provisional or regular and needs to be voted on by the board before we announce. IRC is not the place to take the vote and email is legal here in NJ. The vote should be taken at a meeting or out into an email.
Jesse explained the intent of his email. He wants to remove barriers and speed up the process. A Chapter doing things in our name can strengthen or ruin our name. The new chapter understands that it is a binding agreement. He agrees that the policy needed reworking and commends Martin for taking on the task. He welcomes the changes but until official we should follow our current guidelines.
John commented that he felt it look like it was a bit rushed and that two weeks is not a long length of time to wait for a wait. Take the vote at the board meeting and if that can't happen then put it to a vote in an email.

Martin asked that we make a decision on what the current policy states and lets clear up the grey area and come up with an agreed understanding until we get the new policy in place.

The policy is mute on a vote. The policy states that only a review is needed that there is no need for a vote.

Jesse showed that the provisional chapter is mentioned how to become a regular chapter but it does not say it needs approval and the board has felt that the rules for a regular chapter applied to the provisional where it would have to be approved.

Martin read the policy that "After review the regular chapter would be put on the board agenda for vote." A regular chapter requires a vote and Jesse feels that the provisional chapter should follow the same rule. Maybe this can be delegated but until this can be put into the new policy it should be voted on.

Ski noticed a big distinction between greybeards and young guys coming up and we should try and speed things up as long as we don't open ourselves up for problems. Philip agrees and will hold his comments.

Martin feels that the Provisional status is a one line that just mentions that a Provisional Chapter can be granted. He feels it was just tacked on at the end.

William feels that we (the board) should vote on the provisional chapters as they come under insurance policy and it is our brand. The committee can say "Yes this is a good chapter" with all of the data and the board approves that.

Jesse feels that where the provisional chapter line shows up one can look at everything that describes how a Regular chapter begins, operates etc. a provisional chapter can be seen the same thing as a Regular chapter except it has less members for the first year. He feels we do need to vote on provisional chapters.

Philip commented that wholly objective criteria is used to define a Regular/provisional chapter and is there any subjective data that the board has to see. If there is only a check list to become a chapter than we are micromanaging the process. Going from a Provisional to a Regular chapter there are subjective data we would need to see that they are viable, have enough members are doing things. Although we told them they are

Martin motioned that the Board vote on the LOPSA-DC Chapter.
Ski Seconded the motion.
Dan amends the motion that we approve the LOPSA-DC chapter as a provisional chapter.
No objections so the motion passes.

Martin answered about waiting two weeks. There is a lot of steps and processes that the Chapter goes through to get rolling. (List servs, Domain Names etc) He wants to give them as much support as possible and after they gain that momentum getting things rolling and then have to wait another two weeks to get LOPSA support seems to be put a damper on that momentum.

Jesse stated that a successful chapter takes a lot of time and effort, if waiting for two weeks to get the official approval is too much than the person is not doing good planning and maybe we should allow a faster process. E-mail may be fast enough. He feels if they can't wait the two weeks for something that is long lasting and hopefully years they may not be thinking it through correctly and they may need more guidance.

John feels that this group has to have meetings and during that time they should have been in discussion with us and they are not just waking up and saying "Lets become a chapter." So two weeks should not be a long wait.

Martin passed.

Ski stated that IEEE requires a board vote, ACM farms it out to the head of the Chapter Committee so it is either way how to create a chapter. He feels we that either way is fine.

Jesse agrees with Ski. The requirements, process and approval process should be clear. he is in favor of making the process easier and smoother. We still need to vote on the chapters until the policy is finalized.

Matt adds that the riskier part of the Chapter is down the road. Once we have history with a Chapter is where we should have squared away policies with appropriate deal with problematic chapters. He feels that is much more important than approving new chapters.

Martin responded that we can strengthen the clauses but there is a revocation portion in the policy. It is a bit generic.

Philip stated that it should be generic as there are some discussions about other policies and it would not be correct to have to modify the policy each time a new issue comes up.

== Adjournment ==
Ski motioned for adjournment.
Dan, William seconded the motion. 20:47

Board meeting Minutes/24 Sep 2012

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{{minutes approved|19 Nov 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, John Boris, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks, Evan Pettrey

;Apologies: Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke

;Opened: 901pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 924pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Evan closed rest of CC accounts
** Matt reviewed 2011 990 form and discussed with Evan
** Some more work on 2010 to complete still yet
** Evan waiting on bank statements from Lois (being sent from bank)

* Membership report
** See [https://lopsa.org/civicrm/member&reset=1 CiviCRM]
** 787 members -- Down 15 members since the last con-call
** 119 lapsed members this quarter, 30 in August, 279 YTD
** Expired member survey is done, building searches to extract ex-members for mailing

* Technical services report
** Server move almost complete, heavy work underway
** Dan and William completing final move from old server to new server within days

* Conference/events activities report
** OLF - shipping table cloth and some stickers
** SCaLE - no contact yet
** Cascadia and LOPSA-East - working on sponsors

* Mentorship Status report
** No meetings so no updates

* Communications report
** #lopsa-live a success (thanks to Martin)
** 8 posts to LI, FB, G+, 12 posts to TW, no retweets
** Ad on Matt Simmons site soon
** Wrote 4 blog postings
** Request for LOPSAGram content

* Liaison reports
** LC - no meeting - no news

== LISA Planning... (Ski) ==
* Time for Annual Meeting BOF - 9p - 10p Wednesday
* Plan on doing $40 discount
* Discussion on options for other LISA things to do.
* Search for Yerkes award winner
* Ordering table as well

== Notes/announcements ==
* Comments and discussion on project status and planning

== Adjournment ==
* Motion to adjourn by Ski at 924pm second by William

Board meeting Minutes/10 Sep 2012

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{{minutes approved|19 Nov 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Ski Kacoroski, Jesse Trucks, Martin Gehrke, Dan Rich, Evan Pettrey

;Apologies: John Boris

;Opened: 909pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 1021pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|13 Aug 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Financial Standing Summary
** Action Items:
*** Account transition - Evan
**** Migrate majority of funds from TD Bank to Bank of America
**** Migrate recurring debits and credits to Bank of America once funds have been transferred
*** Get remainder of finance committee added to new Bank of America account - Evan, Matt, Philip
**** Requires all three of us to be at a Bank of America location simultaneously
*** Gain access to all financial accounts - Evan, Matt
**** Accounts transitioned successfully so far:
***** Paypal
**** Still need access:
***** QuickBooks
***** American Express
*** File 2011 990 - Matt, Evan
**** Self-imposed deadlines:
***** Completed for review - Monday, September 17
***** Submitted - Wednesday, September 19
*** File 2010 990 - Evan, Matt
**** Self-imposed deadlines:
***** Completed for review - Monday, October 8
***** Submitted - Monday, October 15

* Membership report
** See [https://lopsa.org/civicrm/member&reset=1 CiviCRM]
** 802 members -- '''Down 62 members since the last con-call'''
** Only 19 new/renewed membership in Aug
** 114 lapsed members this quarter, 31 in August, 274 YTD

* Technical services report
** Forums in progress - working out technical issues
** Tech Team to meet on planning final server move

* Conference/events activities report
** OLF coming up - Ohio local setting up table for free
** SCaLE - payment to LOPSA in progress
** Cascadia - CFP out
** LOPSA-East - CFP out
** LISA - handled by Ski this year

* Mentorship Status report
** Working on some automation

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live
** LL agenda created and planning started
** LL focus on new Board and planning for next year

* Liaison reports
** LC - LC Chair contacting potential new LC members

== Review projects from face-2-face meeting ==

* Projects briefly discussed to set stage for year's work as planned in face to face meeting
* Deadlines and deliverables discussed for projects
* Public progress report by Jesse as Project Manager method discussed

== LISA Conference... (Ski) ==
* Discount to $40 again this year
* Ski working on a communication plan
* Ski gave Anne the list of names for LISA postal mailing (632 total of 846 members had postal addresses)
* Discussed potential for rooms for BoFs if possible - though difficult to do this year so unlikely
* Community meeting schedule needed

== LOPSA-LA Chapter Approval... (Martin) ==
* LOPSA-LA has petitioned for chapter status
* has 6 confirmed LOPSA members
* has submitted list of goals and objectives, and meeting schedule (mailed to board@lopsa.org)

* Martin moves the Board approve the LOPSA-LA full chapter petition.
** Seconded by William
** LOPSA-LA approved

== Communications report (Ski) ==

* Will add this report to standing reports - Philip to implement in template.

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn by Jesse at 1021pm, second by William.

Board meeting Minutes/25-26 Aug 2012

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{{minutes box|before=25 Aug 2012|after=10 Sep 2012}}

{{minutes approved|8 Oct 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks, John Boris

;Opened: August 25, 10:44 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: August 26, 11:34 '''Eastern Time'''

== New Board Presentation ==
* Overview of nonprofit sector
* History of LOPSA
* Current state of LOPSA
* Overview of LOPSA ByLaws, Policies, and organizational structure
* Parliamentary procedure overview
* Outline of Officer selection process
* Description of Board of Directors meeting format and procedures

== Overview of Programs, Committees, and other major LOPSA areas of concern for the Board ==
* Financial Report
* Membership
* Technical Report
* Technical Services Committee
* Mentorship Program
* Development
* Communication

== Officer Selection ==

* President: Philip Kizer
* Vice Presidnet: Dan Rich
* Treasurer: Evan Pettrey
* Secretary: Jesse Trucks

== Committee Selection ==

* Communication - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski
* Membership - Dan Rich / Martin Gehrke
* Finance – Evan Pettrey / Dan Rich / Matt Disney
* Awards - will return to later
* Conference – will return to later
* Locals – Martin Gehrke / Jesse Trucks/ Matt Disney
* Technical Service – Jesse Trucks / William Bilancio
* Content Services - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski
* Educators - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski

== Future Board Meeting Time Selection ==

== Action Item Review ==
* Review open board related tickets and assign appropriately

== Discussion on the role of the LC (Dan) ==
* What do we think the LC should be doing?
* LC Chair selection

== Executive Session ==
''Entered executive session: 4:28 pm''

''Exited executive session: 4:55 pm''

MOTION: Moved that we select David Parter as the new chair of the Leadership Committee - Passed unopposed

== Moment of silence in honor of Neil Armstrong was observed ==

== Projects (Kizer) ==

* Current Projects discussed
* Suggested Projects discussed
* Jesse Trucks selected as Project Manager for LOPSA
* New project champions chosen
* Discuss Project Manager to publish monthly progress reports

== Conference anti-harassment policy (bilancio) ==
* One of the examples to help start ours: http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/conference-policies/
* Review/revise 6 months after adoption

== Board minutes (ski) ==
* What do people want to see in them
* Ok to put in some financial data
== New Tagline (ski) ==
* No new tagline adopted pending further research and marketing planning

== Alternate Income Ideas (Dan) ==
* Amazon
* Google
* Thinkgeek

== "The Art of Community" book discussion (Ski) ==

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn on August 26 at 11:34 by Ski, seconded by William.

Board meeting Minutes/25 Aug 2012

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{{minutes box|before=13 Aug 2012|after=25-26 Aug 2012}}

{{minutes approved|8 Oct 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Ski Kacoroski, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks

;Apologies: Lois Bennett, Nadine Miller, Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 1030am '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 1034am '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==

== Standing Reports ==

All reports held until we seat the new board.

== Turn over to new Board (Kizer) ==

* Final business item for this instance of the board: hand-off to the new board

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn at 1034am by William, seconded by Jesse

Board meeting Minutes

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Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|13 Aug 2012}}
* {{m|30 July 2012}}
* {{m|16 July 2012}}
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/13 Aug 2012

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{{minutes box|before=30 July 2012|after=25 Aug 2012}}

{{minutes approved|10 Sep 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), Dan Rich, William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Lois Bennett, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Nadine Miller

;Apologies: Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 909pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 1012pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|30 July 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Our bank account is pretty healthy.
** Lois is working to transfer responsibilities to Matt

* Membership report
** Dan has reviewed all of the PICC 2012 new memberships and merged those that could be identified as duplicates. This only made a small difference in the total membership numbers as most of them were PICC 2011 attendees that had already expired. It did boost our renewal count a bit, although the overall renewal rate is still dismal. The import script will be reviewed when we import the next conference attendees to better detect existing memberships and avoid this in the future.
** 864 members
** 86 lapsed members in July, 248 YTD (nearly 1/4 of our membership has lapsed this year -- this is a *big* problem)
** 243 new members, 38 renewals YTD (new member count down since the last mtg due to the PICC member fixes)

* Technical services report
** Server move waiting on domain TTL change, should happen soon

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC & Cascadia starting to get active for next year
** Waiting to hear back from SCALE
** Will talk about OLF and LISA at Face to Face meeting

* Mentorship Status report
** Two new mentorship committee members are active which is nice. Things are coming along well.
** Need more help with publicity

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Philip gave input to a magazine article that we linked to from our web site.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Sent out request for content

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Tom Perrine is stepping down as LC Chair, we will need to discuss his replacement at the face-2-face meeting.



== Executive Session (wbilancio) ==

== Face-to-face planning (Dan) ==
As this is our final meeting before the face-to-face, we need to finalize the agenda and any discussion topics for the meeting.
* Philip will work up a schedule and get it to us for review.
* Discussed how the face to face meeting will be run.

== USENIX Security Conference... (Ski) ==
* Picked up one new member
* Had 10 - 12 good discussions with folks including one I am going to follow up on from CT (may want to start a chapter with his friends)

== Notes ==
* Nadine offered to help out with a Google Adwords campaign starting now and continuing after she leaves the board. Ski has a $100 certificate that she can use. Discussed ongoing budgeting for this and Google analytics for our website.
* Discussion on Linked-In LOPSA group and list of folks who want to join. Dan will be updating the templates and check into a vanity link so we can measure how many folks join after they get the deny mail for not being a member.

== Adjournment ==
Lois motioned to adjourn at 1012 and Ski seconded.

LOPSA Policies/Membership classes

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{{policy|Membership classes}}

{{policy approved|7 November 2005}}

{{policy amended|14 November 2005}}

The Association shall have the following classes of membership:

{| {{prettytable}}
! Class !! Voting !! Dues !! Renewal period !! Benefits !! Notes
|--
! Individual Member
| Yes
| $40/year until May 2006; $50/year after
| One year
| All benefits as defined by the board, specifically including:
* Right to vote in all LOPSA elections
* Access to members-only LOPSA web content
* Access to members-only LOPSA web archives
* Access to participate in members-only LOPSA mailing lists
* Opportunity to be involved in members-only project- or topic-specific groups
* Member discounts on selected LOPSA merchandise and publications
* Other benefits as they are developed
|
|--
! Charter Member
| Yes
| $50
| N/A
| All benefits of Individual Membership, plus:
* The lifetime right, for as long as membership is maintained in good standing, to refer to oneself as a "Charter Member"
* A 3- or 4-digit member number (offered on an as-available basis)
* Recognition by name as a Founding Member on the LOPSA website (may be declined at member request)
* Other such benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be limited to those joining prior to 1 May 2006. Renewals of Founding Members shall be as Individual Members. STG Transitional Membership or Individual Membership dues shall not be applied, in whole or in part, to Founding Membership dues.
|--
! Founding Member
| Yes
| Same as Individual Member
| N/A
| All benefits of Founding Membership, plus:
* The lifetime right, for as long as membership is maintained in good standing, to refer to oneself as a "Founding Member"
* A 1- or 2-digit member number
* Recognition by name as a Founder on the LOPSA website (may be declined at member request)
* Other such benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be by invitation of the Board. Renewals of Founders shall be as Individual Members. STG Transitional Membership dues shall not be applied, in whole or in part, to Founder dues. Individual or Founding Member dues may be applied to Founder dues on an annualized pro-rata basis.
|--
! Student Member
| Yes
| $25/year
| One year
| All benefits of Individual Membership, plus such other benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission or renewal of this membership class shall require proof of full-time primary, secondary, or post-secondary student status.
|--
! Honorary Member
| No
| $0
| N/A
| As defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be by invitation of the Board.
|--
! Trial Member
| No
| TBD
| One month
| As defined by the Board.
| Memberships in this class shall be automatically renewed unless cancelled or upgraded to another class of membership, as described in the {{policy on|Trial memberships}}.
|}

==== Voting status ====
Voting status as defined for each membership class above shall entitle a member of a voting class to:
# Vote in elections, referenda, and other such ballots as may be offered to the Membership;
# Stand for election for Association office, subject to the Rules; and
# Participate in petition actions as defined in the Rules.

LOPSA Policies/Membership classes

2012-08-28T20:03:12Z

Ski:

{{policy|Membership classes}}

{{policy approved|7 November 2005}}

{{policy amended|14 November 2005}}

The Association shall have the following classes of membership:

{| {{prettytable}}
! Class !! Voting !! Dues !! Renewal period !! Benefits !! Notes
|--
! Individual Member
| Yes
| $40/year until May 2006; $50/year after
| One year
| All benefits as defined by the board, specifically including:
* Right to vote in all LOPSA elections
* Access to members-only LOPSA web content
* Access to members-only LOPSA web archives
* Access to participate in members-only LOPSA mailing lists
* Opportunity to be involved in members-only project- or topic-specific groups
* Member discounts on selected LOPSA merchandise and publications
* Other benefits as they are developed
|
|--
! Charter Member
| Yes
| $50
| N/A
| All benefits of Individual Membership, plus:
* The lifetime right, for as long as membership is maintained in good standing, to refer to oneself as a "Charter Member"
* A 3- or 4-digit member number (offered on an as-available basis)
* Recognition by name as a Charter Member on the LOPSA website (may be declined at member request)
* Other such benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be limited to those joining prior to 1 May 2006. Renewals of Founding Members shall be as Individual Members. STG Transitional Membership or Individual Membership dues shall not be applied, in whole or in part, to Founding Membership dues.
|--
! Founding Member
| Yes
| Same as Individual Member
| N/A
| All benefits of Founding Membership, plus:
* The lifetime right, for as long as membership is maintained in good standing, to refer to oneself as a "Founding Member"
* A 1- or 2-digit member number
* Recognition by name as a Founder on the LOPSA website (may be declined at member request)
* Other such benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be by invitation of the Board. Renewals of Founders shall be as Individual Members. STG Transitional Membership dues shall not be applied, in whole or in part, to Founder dues. Individual or Founding Member dues may be applied to Founder dues on an annualized pro-rata basis.
|--
! Student Member
| Yes
| $25/year
| One year
| All benefits of Individual Membership, plus such other benefits as defined by the Board
| Admission or renewal of this membership class shall require proof of full-time primary, secondary, or post-secondary student status.
|--
! Honorary Member
| No
| $0
| N/A
| As defined by the Board
| Admission to this membership class shall be by invitation of the Board.
|--
! Trial Member
| No
| TBD
| One month
| As defined by the Board.
| Memberships in this class shall be automatically renewed unless cancelled or upgraded to another class of membership, as described in the {{policy on|Trial memberships}}.
|}

==== Voting status ====
Voting status as defined for each membership class above shall entitle a member of a voting class to:
# Vote in elections, referenda, and other such ballots as may be offered to the Membership;
# Stand for election for Association office, subject to the Rules; and
# Participate in petition actions as defined in the Rules.

Board meeting Minutes

2012-08-24T14:47:29Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|30 July 2012}}
* {{m|16 July 2012}}
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/30 July 2012

2012-08-24T14:46:22Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/30_July_2012

{{minutes box|before=16 July 2012|after=13 Aug 2012}}

{{minutes approved|13 Aug 2012}}

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Lois Bennett, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Nadine Miller

;Apologies: Ski Kacoroski, Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 0906 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0943 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|16 July 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** We picked up a lot of new memberships/renewals due to sysadmin days promotion.
** 990 ready to be submitted
** We still have not received a check for the conferences earlier this year. This is waiting on the resolution of a difference with the hotel.

* Membership report
** 870 members - thanks to William, Dan, and Ski for finding the paypal problem and going through the pending payments to approve them
** 33 lapsed members in July, 202 YTD (nearly 1/4 of our membership has lapsed this year -- this is a *big* problem)
** 252 new members, 35 renewals YTD

* Technical services report
** On track to be moved over by end of August

* Conference/events activities report
** Ski at USENIX security conference

* Mentorship Status report
** Raffle is set up, not looking for any more prizes at this time

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Philip answering questions from a report on system admins

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Next LC call 6-Aug - Dan



== Sys Admin Appreciation Day Lessons Learned (DISNEY) ==
* Earlier planning with locals
* Better social media presence
* Daily messaging
* Specific plan for each activity/day and specific assignments
* Collecting notes on the board wiki.
* May need to start much earlier to get corporate america aware of it

== Diversity Discussion ==
Discussion on harassment and diversity policies. We need to make it clear that we support diversity and tolerance in everything (platforms, people, race, etc.). Plan to discuss more at Face to Face meeting.

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn at 0943 by Jesse, seconded by Dan

Board meeting Minutes

2012-08-12T16:11:18Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|16 July 2012}}
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/16 July 2012

2012-08-12T16:10:17Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/16_July_2012

{{minutes box|before=2 July 2012|after=30 July 2012}}

{{minutes approved|30 July 2012}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), Ski Kacoroski, William Bilancio, Lois Bennett, Dan Rich, Matt Disney, Nadine Miller, Jesse Trucks
;Apologies: ?

;Opened: 0905pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0955 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|2_July_2012}}'''

== Action Items ==
* Ski will handle customer service queue

== Standing Reports ==
* Treasurer's report
**

* Membership report
** 825 members (down 22 since last meeting)
** 92 lapsed members in Q2, 8 so far in July, 182 YTD (student member who becomes individual will show as lapsed and new member)
** 214 new members ytd, but only 24 renewals (Dan still needs to verify these numbers to make sure we don't have duplicate memberships from PICC and Cascadia)

* Technical services report
** New server setup is being worked on

* Conference/events activities report
** Cascadia & PICC starting to ramp up.
** Ski and William will check into a table the USENIX Security conference in Bellevue

* Mentorship Status report
** Planning for LISA announcements
** Still working ok, would like to see it grow more.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Will be going on this week
** Add lots of stuff for sysadmin days

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** LC
** Tom and Dan talked last week, Tom will be calling the exiting board members to perform an exit interview and providing anonymized input back to the board
** Tom has sent Dan his notes from the LC election post-mortem, more once Dan has a chance to review them



== Tagline... (Ski) ==
I am getting no new folks to vote so our new tagline is:

We make systems work...

I would like to announce this along with the other System Admin week festivities. What do you think?

* As no one was really excited about the taglines, the board decided to not do anything until the face to face meeting.

== Executive Session (Rich) ==

== F2F Planning (Rich) ==
There have been very few updates to the [[Face_to_Face_Meeting_Planning_2012|F2F planning page]], we really need to start planning this meeting in advance of the day.

* Need to set some goals, update the meeting page

== Sys Admin Appreciation Day (Disney) ==
* Sys Admin Day landing page on website?
* Discount
* Email announcement next Monday
* Dell KACE cooperation: Blog, Twitter, FB. Also in email?
* Gift memberships?
* Notification to chapters about matching funds ($100)?

== Next Agenda item... (NAME) ==

== New Business ==

=== First new item... ===

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn by Ski, seconded by William.

Board meeting Minutes

2012-07-30T00:41:33Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|2 July 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes

2012-07-30T00:41:21Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|2 Julu 2012}}
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/2 July 2012

2012-07-30T00:40:32Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/2_July_2012

{{minutes box|before=18 Jun 2012|after=16 July 2012}}

{{minutes approved|16 July 2012}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks, Matt Disney, Ski Kacoroski,

;Apologies: Lois Bennett, Chris St. Pierre, Nadine Miller

;Opened: 0901pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0942pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|18 Jun 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report

* Membership report
** Problem with some members getting registered twice from PICC and Cascadia conference due to them using a different email at the conference than what they did for LOPSA. Dan is looking into a fix.

* Technical services report
** Move to new server is still in work.

* Conference/events activities report
** SCALE is next big conference. Board decided to work on LISA at the Face to Face meeting to get new members involved.

* Mentorship Status report
** Jesse will follow up with Mentorship team to see how they are doing.

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** We have insurance as a benefit now. We will have a web page up by the next meeting.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** LOPSAgram on schedule for early July.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** No report tonight for the LC, Tom and I are syncing up tomorrow evening - drich



== Executive Session (Kizer) ==

== SysAdmin Appreciation Day (Matt) ==
* Promotional membership discount. How much?
** Decided to run the week before until Monday the 30th. Memberships will be $35 during this time.
* Gift memberships. In-Honor status in Civi?
** Dan will figure out how much work this is to do.
* $100 match from LOPSA for locals for SysAdmin Appreciation Day events. wbilancio to contact locals?
** Decided to match up to $100.
* Twitter hashtag campaign? #hugyoursysadmin ?
** Decided this was a good idea.
* Center for Internet Security still pending. Call tomorrow. Hoping for cooperative membership discount or benchmark access for LOPSA members.
* Gifts: Donated book from TAL. Still seeking donations or sponsorships. Drawing? How to enter? SysAdmin short story contest?
** Decided to ask the new folks for more ideas on this.

== Next Agenda item... (NAME) ==

== New Business ==

=== First new item... ===

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Dan motioned to adjourn at 942pm, William seconded

Board meeting Minutes

2012-07-12T19:03:41Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|18 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/18 Jun 2012

2012-07-12T19:02:48Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/18_Jun_2012

{{minutes box|before=4 Jun 2012|after=2 July 2012}}

{{minutes approved|2 July 2012}}

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Jesse Trucks, Matt Disney, Lois Bennett, Ski Kacoroski, Nadine Miller, Dan Rich

;Apologies: Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 0910pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0947pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|4 Jun 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==
* Discussed health care benefit, getting close to getting it ready for the website.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** 990 still in work, problem is getting accurate numbers from the year we split from AH

* Membership report
** 847 members
** 89 lapsed members in Q2, 20 so far in June, 171 YTD (student member who becomes individual will show as lapsed and new member)
** 214 new members ytd, but only 22 renewals (Dan still needs to verify these numbers to make sure we don't have duplicate memberships from PICC and Cascadia)

* Technical services report
** Close to getting move done to new provider done.

* Conference/events activities report
** Lois worked at table at Federated conferences and signed up one new member.

* Mentorship Status report
** Two new mentorship coordinators and are new looking to expand the program.

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

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Last two years of LOPSAGrams up on the website for paid members.

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** I'm trying to find time this week to talk to Tom.

== Face-2-Face Planning (drich) ==
* Discussion on setting a time and agenda for the Face to Face meeting with the new board members.

== Leadership Committee (Trucks) ==
* Discussion on how LC and Board communication and cooperation can be improved. Decided to discuss this at the Face to Face meeting

== Sys Admin Appreciation Day (Disney) ==
* Discussion on what LOPSA can do to celebrate Sys Admin day. No Progress with Zazzle set up and still working with a joint event with CIS. Looking for sponsorships. Decided to let locals know that we will sponsor a party, raffle, prizes at them to celebrate.

== WiAC stipend status (Disney) ==
* Lois reported that WiAC went well with the sponsorships. Matt will get a report from the recipients and publicize on the LOPSA site.

== Adjournment ==
Matt moved to adjourn at 09:47, William seconded

Board meeting Minutes/4 Jun 2012

2012-06-24T15:56:13Z

Ski:

{{minutes box|before=21 May 2012|after=18 Jun 2012}}

{{minutes approved|18 Jun 2012}}

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Dan Rich,

;Apologies: Lois Bennett, Nadine Miller, Chris St. Pierre, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 0905 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0947 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|21 May 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|7 May 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** 990 should be filed by the end of the week.

* Membership report
** 847 members
** 75 lapsed members in Q2, 6 so far in June, 15 in May
** 211 new members ytd, but only 19 renewals (Dan still need to verify these numbers to make sure we don't have duplicate memberships from PICC and Cascadia)

* Technical services report
** Still working on getting new server up and running
** Looking for Drupal folks for Drupal upgrade
** Initial idea for forums did not work, looking at other options

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC is done, Cascadia ramping up
** Need to talk with SCALE folks about next year
** Doing a table at Federated conference week
** OLF coming up
** Focus on LISA after the elections

* Mentorship Status report
** Nothing to report

* Development report
** Nothing to report

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live
** Nothing to report

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Nothing to report, no call with the LC this week

== Harrassment Policy at conferences ==
Discussed this and decided to talk about it at the Face to Face. Also each conference (PICC and Cascadia) can create their own policy.

== LOPSAGram Notes... (Ski) ==
* Process for publishing them on the wiki
* Set up menu under LOPSA Community for them. Currently it is only available to paid users. I think we should we make this available to everyone? Comments?
** Decided to keep this as a paid benefit

== WiAC'12 stipend wrap-up (Disney) ==
* Disbursement
* Announcements
* Lessons learned?
** This can work well to get people to donate for specific causes that they are interested in.

== SysAdmin Day activities (Disney) ==
* Review current status, next steps, and potential different scopes.
* Set deadline for implementation: July 1.

== Center for Internet Security Ideas (Disney) ==
Thoughts for partnering with CIS?
** Matt will get more information on this idea and meet with them on it.

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Matt motion that we adjourn at 0947, Seconded by William

Board meeting Minutes

2012-06-24T15:55:56Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|4 Jun 2012}}
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/4 Jun 2012

2012-06-24T15:50:43Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/4_Jun_2012

{{minutes box|before=21 May 2012|after=18 Jun 2012}}

{{minutes approved|18 Jun 2012}}

;Unspecified: '''Move your name to Present or Apologies prior to the meeting!'''

;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Matt Disney, Dan Rich,

;Apologies: Lois Bennett, Nadine Miller, Chris St. Pierre, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 0905 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0947 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|21 May 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|7 May 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** 990 should be filed by the end of the week.

* Membership report
** 847 members
** 75 lapsed members in Q2, 6 so far in June, 15 in May
** 211 new members ytd, but only 19 renewals (Dan still need to verify these numbers to make sure we don't have duplicate memberships from PICC and Cascadia)

* Technical services report
** Still working on getting new server up and running
** Looking for Drupal folks for Drupal upgrade
** Initial idea for forums did not work, looking at other options

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC is done, Cascadia ramping up
** Need to talk with SCALE folks about next year
** Doing a table at Federated conference week
** OLF coming up
** Focus on LISA after the elections

* Mentorship Status report
** Nothing to report

* Development report
** Nothing to report

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live
** Nothing to report

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Nothing to report, no call with the LC this week

== Harrassment Policy at conferences ==
Discussed this and decided to talk about it at the Face to Face. Also each conference (PICC and Cascadia) can create their own policy.

== LOPSAGram Notes... (Ski) ==
* Process for publishing them on the wiki
* Set up menu under LOPSA Community for them. Currently it is only available to paid users. I think we should we make this available to everyone? Comments?
** Decided to keep this as a paid benefit

== WiAC'12 stipend wrap-up (Disney) ==
* Disbursement
* Announcements
* Lessons learned?
** This can work well to get people to donate for specific causes that they are interested in.

== SysAdmin Day activities (Disney) ==
* Review current status, next steps, and potential different scopes.
* Set deadline for implementation: July 1.

== Center for Internet Security Ideas (Disney) ==
Thoughts for partnering with CIS?
** Matt will get more information on this idea and meet with them on it.

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Matt motion that we adjourn at 0947, Seconded by William

Board meeting Minutes

2012-06-18T00:39:50Z

Ski: /* 2012 */

This page is a list of links pointing at Minutes of the Board of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOSPA) in chronological order.

The first Board of what is now LOPSA was elected in Spring 2005 by the members of The System Administrators' Guild (SAGE), which had been a Special Technical Group (STG) of USENIX. The intent was to have this Board manage the planned spin-off of SAGE from its USENIX parent. In November 2005, this plan was changed, and this new organization's name was changed to '''The League of Professional System Administrators'''. At various times during this entire process, this Board's work was referred to by USENIX and itself as '''SAGE''' or '''newSAGE'''. The meaning of '''SAGE''' in the minutes should be apparent from context.

Per the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy on minutes dissemination]], publication of minutes may occur up to 30 days after approval, but will ordinarily happen sooner.

Redactions, when present, will be clearly labeled (see the [[LOPSA Policies/Minutes dissemination|policy]] for more about redactions).

See also the older '''[[Interim Board meeting Minutes]]'''.

== 2012 ==
* {{m|21 May 2012}}
* {{m|7 May 2012}}
* {{m|23 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|9 Apr 2012}}
* {{m|26 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|12 Mar 2012}}
* {{m|27 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|13 Feb 2012}}
* {{m|30 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|16 Jan 2012}}
* {{m|2 Jan 2012}}

== 2011 ==
* {{m|19 Dec 2011}}
* {{m|5 Dec 2011}} - held at LISA XXV
* {{m|21 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|7 Nov 2011}}
* {{m|24 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|10 Oct 2011}}
* {{m|26 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|12 Sept 2011}}
* {{m|29 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13-14 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|13 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|8 Aug 2011}}
* {{m|25 July 2011}}
* {{m|11 July 2011}}
* {{m|27 June 2011}}
* {{m|13 June 2011}}
* {{m|6 June 2011}}
* {{m|16 May 2011}}
* {{m|2 May 2011}}
* {{m|18 April 2011}}
* No meeting on April 4th due to lack of quorum
* {{m|21 March 2011}}
* {{m|7 March 2011}}
* {{m|21 February 2011}}
* {{m|7 February 2011}}
* {{m|24 January 2011}}
* {{m|10 January 2011}}

== 2010 ==
* no meeting on 27 December 2010 due to holiday-related business
* {{m|13 December 2010}}
* {{m|29 November 2010}}
* {{m|15 November 2010}}
* {{m|1 November 2010}}
* {{m|18 October 2010}}
* {{m|4 October 2010}}
* face to face meeting 18-19 Sept 2010, minutes will be posted soon
* {{m|6 September 2010}}
* {{m|23 August 2010}}
* {{m|9 August 2010}}
* {{m|26 July 2010}}
* {{m|12 July 2010}}
* {{m|28 June 2010}}
* {{m|14 June 2010}}
* {{m|1 June 2010}}
* {{m|18 May 2010}}
* {{m|4 May 2010}}
* no meeting on 20 April 2010 due to sickness of board members
* {{m|6 April 2010}}
* {{m|23 March 2010}}
* {{m|16 March 2010}}
* {{m|9 March 2010}}
* {{m|23 February 2010}}
* {{m|16 February 2010}}
* {{m|9 February 2010}}
* no meeting on 26 January 2010 due to lack of quorum

* {{m|12 January 2010}}

== 2009 ==
* {{m|15 December 2009}}
* {{m|1 December 2009}}
* {{m|17 November 2009}}
* {{m|20 October 2009}}
* {{m|22 September 2009}}
* {{m|8 September 2009}}
* {{m|25 August 2009}}
* {{m|9 August 2009}}
* {{m|24 June 2009}}
* {{m|10 June 2009}}
* {{m|27 May 2009}}
* {{m|22 April 2009}}
* {{m|25 March 2009}}
* {{m|11 March 2009}}
* {{m|2 February 2009}}
* {{m|19 January 2009}}
* {{m|5 January 2009}}

== 2008 ==
* {{m|8 December 2008}}
* {{m|24 November 2008}}
* {{m|10 November 2008}}
* {{m|27 October 2008}}
* {{m|13 October 2008}}
* {{m|2 October 2008}}
* {{m|28 September 2008}}
* {{m|15 September 2008}}
* {{m|4 August 2008}}
* {{m|7 July 2008}}
* {{m|9 June 2008}}
* {{m|12 May 2008}}
* {{m|28 April 2008}}
* {{m|14 April 2008}}
* {{m|31 March 2008}}
* {{m|17 March 2008}}
* {{m|3 March 2008}}
* {{m|18 February 2008}}
* {{m|4 February 2008}}
* {{m|21 January 2008}}
* {{m|7 January 2008}}

== 2007 ==
* {{m|18 December 2007}}
* {{m|4 December 2007}}
* {{m|20 November 2007}}
* {{m|6 November 2007}}
* {{m|23 October 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 9 October 2007''
* {{m|25 September 2007}}
* {{m|11 September 2007}}
* {{m|28 August 2007}}
* {{m|14 August 2007}}
* {{m|5 August 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 30 July 2007''
* {{m|23 July 2007}}
* {{m|16 July 2007}}
* {{m|9 July 2007}}
* {{m|2 July 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 25 June 2007''
* {{m|18 June 2007}}
* {{m|11 June 2007}}
* {{m|4 June 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 28 May 2007''
* {{m|21 May 2007}}
* {{m|14 May 2007}}
* {{m|7 May 2007}}
* {{m|30 April 2007}}
* {{m|23 April 2007}}
* {{m|16 April 2007}}
* {{m|9 April 2007}}
* {{m|2 April 2007}}
* {{m|26 March 2007}}
* {{m|19 March 2007}}
* {{m|12 March 2007}}
* ''note: no meeting occurred on 5 March 2007''
* {{m|26 February 2007}}
* {{m|19 February 2007}}
* {{m|12 February 2007}}
* {{m|5 February 2007}}
* {{m|29 January 2007}}
* ''the 22 January 2007 meeting did not achieve quorum''
* {{m|15 January 2007}}
* {{m|8 January 2007}}

== 2006 ==
* ''note: no meeting on 25 December 2006"
* {{m| 18 December 2006}}
* {{m| 11 December 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 December 2006''
* {{m| 27 November 2006}}
* {{m| 20 November 2006}}
* {{m| 13 November 2006}}
* {{m| 8 November 2006}}
* {{m| 23 October 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 16 October 2006''
* {{m| 9 October 2006}}
* {{m| 2 October 2006}}
* {{m| 25 September 2006}}
* {{m| 18 September 2006}}
* {{m| 11 September 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 4 September 2006''
* {{m| 28 August 2006}}
* {{m| 21 August 2006}}
* ''note: no meeting on 14 August 2006''
* {{m| 7 August 2006}}
* {{m| 31 July 2006}}
* {{m| 24 July 2006}}
* {{m| 17 July 2006}}
* {{m| 10 July 2006}}
* {{m| 26 June 2006}}
* {{m| 19 June 2006}}
* {{m| 12 June 2006}}
* {{m| 29 May 2006}}
* ''Minutes of 15 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* ''Minutes of 1 May 2006 are pending Board action.''
* {{m| 24 April 2006}}
* {{m| 19 April 2006}}
* {{m| 10 April 2006}}
* {{m| 3 April 2006}}
* {{m| 27 March 2006}}
* {{m| 20 March 2006}}
* {{m| 13 March 2006}}
* {{m| 6 March 2006}}
* {{m|27 February 2006}}
* {{m|20 February 2006}}
* {{m|13 February 2006}}
* {{m|6 February 2006}}
* {{m|30 January 2006}}
* {{m|23 January 2006}}
* {{m|16 January 2006}}
* {{m|9 January 2006}}
* {{m|4 January 2006}}

== 2005 ==
* {{m|19 December 2005}}
* {{m|12 December 2005}}
* {{m|6 December 2005}}
* [[/4 December 2005|4 December 2005]]
* [[/28 November 2005|28 November 2005]]
* [[/21 November 2005|21 November 2005]]
* [[/14 November 2005|14 November 2005]]
* [[/7 November 2005|7 November 2005]]
* [[/3 November 2005|3 November 2005]]
* [[/31 October 2005|31 October 2005]]
* [[/24 October 2005|24 October 2005]]
* [[/17 October 2005|17 October 2005]]
* [[/10 October 2005|10 October 2005]]
* [[/3 October 2005|3 October 2005]]
* [[/26 September 2005|26 September 2005]]
* [[/19 September 2005|19 September 2005]]
* [[/12 September 2005|12 September 2005]]
* [[/7 September 2005|7 September 2005]]
* [[/29 August 2005|29 August 2005]]
* [[/22 August 2005|22 August 2005]]
* [[/15 August 2005|15 August 2005]]
* [[/8 August 2005|8 August 2005]]
* [[/4 August 2005|4 August 2005]]
* [[/31 July 2005|31 July 2005]]

== About the redactions ==
Some of the minutes have redacted versions. The redactions are given in the form:

:This sentence includes <strike>words to be redacted</strike> ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The above sentence would read:

:This sentence includes ''{4 words redacted; reason for redaction}''.

The reasons for redaction are:
# Personnel mentioned by name
# Business sensitivity
# Third party mentioned by name

Board meeting Minutes/21 May 2012

2012-06-18T00:38:25Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/21_May_2012

{{minutes box|before=7 May 2012|after=4 Jun 2012}}

{{minutes approved|04 Jun 2012}}

* 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.

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski, Lois Bennett, Matt Disney, Dan Rich, Nadine Miller

;Apologies: Chris St. Pierre, Jesse Trucks

;Opened: 0903 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 1005 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|9 Apr 2012}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|23 Apr 2012}}'''

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Working on budget with Matt and on the 990 form.
** Discussion of funds that we will be receiving from PICC and Cascadia for new members and renewals

* Membership report
** 886 members, PICC registrations have been entered
** 67 lapsed members in Q2, 11 so far in May
** 205 new members ytd, but only 16 renewals (I need to verify these numbers to make sure we don't have duplicate memberships from PICC and Cascadia)

* Technical services report
** Dicussion on move to new server

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC had 127 people this year and picked out a date for next year.
** Have table for Federated in Boston, Lois will man the table.
** Next conference is SCALE in LA. Discussion on what and if we want to do this year.

* Mentorship Status report
** Discussion on new mentorship leader who is working on organizing the workflow better.

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Matt will be working on the education effort.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Ski looking for input for the next LOPSAgram

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Nothing to report



== WiAC Attendee Stipend Contest (Disney) ==
I propose a $1500 stipend contest to sponsor the attendance of a woman studying or working in a technical field to attend the Women in Advanced Computing conference. $750 would be donated anonymously to match an equal investment by LOPSA. The contest criteria include two essays: one on the potential value of the conference to the applicant, and the second on how to improve gender balance in the IT workforce.

* We decided to go ahead with this Contest.

== Sys Admin Appreciation Day (Disney) ==
Discuss possibility of appreciation certificates. Discuss feasibility of gift sponsorships (or establishing tasks and owners to determine feasibility).

* Discussion of this idea. Matt/Lois will follow up on the idea of a gift certificate.

== Professional IT Community Conference Stuff (WBilancio) ==
We want to make some changes to the conference and want your feedback
* PICC is a big success. Plan to change the name (they will announce it shortly).

== Next Agenda item... (NAME) ==

== New Business ==

=== First new item... ===

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Adjorned at 1005

Board meeting Minutes/7 May 2012

2012-06-18T00:38:02Z

Ski: Populate page from internal wiki: Board_meeting_Minutes/7_May_2012

{{minutes box|before=23 Apr 2012|after=21 May 2012}}

{{minutes approved|04 Jun 2012}}

* 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.

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), Ski Kacoroski, William Bilancio, Dan Rich, Matt Disney, Jesse Trucks, Nadine Miller

;Apologies: Lois Bennett, Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 0905 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0928 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* Held until next time

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Bank balance healthy
** 990 in process.

* Membership report
** 797 members, low because we don't have the PICC renewals yet
** 78 lapsed members in Q2, 4 so far in Apr
** 122 new members ytd, but only 16 renewals.

* Technical services report
** Discussion on moving us to the new server and service provider. The work has been started and is coming along ok.

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC this weekend, 117 registrants, ready to go.
** Will have a table at USENIX Federated conference week

* Mentorship Status report
** None

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Discusson on Sysadmin Day.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** None

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** Discussion on Candidate LOPSA-Live session coming up.

== Health Insurance Update (Kizer) ==

* Called about our contract, the contact I need to talk to has been out of the office but should be back in tomorrow morning.



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== New Business ==

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== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Ski moved to adjourn at 0928, Dan seconded.

Board meeting Minutes/23 Apr 2012

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* 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.

;Present: '''(Subject to verification)''' Philip Kizer (chair), Lois Bennett, William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Ski Kacoroski, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks

;Apologies: Nadine Miller, Chris St. Pierre

;Opened: 0903pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 0946pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==

== Action Items ==

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Matt will shadow Lois on financial issues.

* Membership report
** 808 members (possibly because PICC is later this year, we were at 842 at the last meeting)
** 88 lapsed members in Q1, 12 so far in Apr
** 116 new members ytd, but only 14 renewals.

* Technical services report
** Still looking at colo ideas
** William will ask Anne for a table at the Federated conferences in Boston. Lois will staff it.

* Conference/events activities report
** PICC up to 105 people

* Mentorship Status report
** New Windows person helping out now with mentorship

* Development report

* Upcoming LOPSAgram and #lopsa-live
** Will be done by next meeting

* Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
** TEP will be going over volunteer need list and working on the election.

== LOPSA server vendor change (Jesse) ==

* Overview of options presented
* Recommendation and discussion
* Roundtable comments
* Decision on vendor
** Decided to use ServerBeach. Jesse will make this happen.

== Linuxfest NW (Ski) ==
I will be attending this on Sat/Sun. No cost for a booth this year and I will donate my time and expenses to LOPSA. I hope to get around 5 new members like I did last year.

== Byline contest (Ski) ==

Only got 2 responses so this was a dud. I would still like to put some new bylines to a vote by the membership. What do you think?
** Decided to run a poll with the suggestions we have.

== New Business ==

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Motion to adjourn at 9:46pm by Dan Rich. Seconded by William Bilancio