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{{minutes approved|7 Nov 2011}}

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

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

;Opened: 09:05pm '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 10:09pm '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|10 Oct 2011}}'''

== Action Items ==
See [https://rt.lopsa.org/rt/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue%20%3D%20%27Board%27%20AND%20%28Status%20%3D%20%27open%27%20OR%20Status%20%3D%20%27new%27%20OR%20Status%20%3D%20%27stalled%27%29 RT Board Queue]

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|+ style="color:#121a2d; background-color:#CDE8FE;" | RT Ticket Status
|-
|- style="color:#fafafa; background-color:#999999;font-weight: bold;"
| User
|colspan=7| Open tickets by queue
| Totals
|-
!
! Board
! Customer S
! General
! Membership
! Mentorship
! Tech Team
! Website
!
|-
!Unassigned
||4 ||13 ||1 || ||1 ||4 ||3 ||26
|-
!drich
||7 || || ||1 || ||1 || ||9
|-
!jessetruck
||2 || || || || || || ||2
|-
!lois
||13 || || || ||1 || || ||14
|-
!mharlow
|| || || || || ||5 || ||5
|-
!nickanders
|| || || || ||6 || || ||6
|-
!pckizer
||4 || || || || || || ||4
|-
!ski
||8 || || || || || || ||8
|-
!stpierre
||3 || || || || || || ||3
|-
!wbilancio
||12 ||1 || || || || ||7 ||20
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!zodic
|| || || || ||4 || || ||4
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!Totals
!53
!14
!1
!1
!12
!10
!10
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* MANY tickets that are weeks old with no owners....

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report
** Plan to send check to AH for debt payment
** Bank account is looking healthy and expenses are low

* Membership report
** See [https://lopsa.org/civicrm/member&reset=1 CiviCRM]
** 61 lapsed members last quarter, 15 in Oct
** Need to contact lapsed members to figure out why they are not renewing.
** Membership is stable, but barely growing. Too many folks are not renewing.
** Dan looking into reports for membership over time to see what our trends are.

:{| class=wikitable cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="1"
|+ style="color:#121a2d; background-color:#CDE8FE;"|Membership Summary (counts are new / renewed / total)
|- style="color:#fafafa; background-color:#999999;font-weight: bold;"
| Members by Type
| Sep
| Oct (MTD)
| 2011 (YTD)
| Current #
|-
!scope="row"| Individual
| 12 / 2 / 14 || 6 / 3 / 9 || 284 / 47 / 331 || 570
|-
!scope="row"| Student
| 1 / 0 / 1 || 0 / 0 / 0 || 16 / 1 / 17 || 37
|-
!scope="row"| Honorary
| 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 0 / 0 || 0
|-
!scope="row"| Charter
| 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 2 / 2 || 1 / 21 / 22 || 141
|-
!scope="row"| Founding
| 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 1 / 1 || 13
|-
!scope="row"| Complimentary
| 0 / 0 / 0 || 0 / 0 / 0 || 1 / 0 / 1 || 1
|- style="font-size: large;"
!scope="row"| Totals (all types)
| 13 / 2 / 15 || 6 / 5 / 11 || 302 / 70 / 372 || 762
|-
|}

* Technical services report
** No major projects. Working on forums on development site.
** Lopsa.org now linked into gravatar for images of people.

* Conference/events activities report
** 6 classes for SCALE. Needs two more classes. Ski suggested instructor that he is using for Cascadia.
** PICC has two media sponsors already. Call for papers is ready to go out.
** Cascadia working on trainers and sponsors. Call for papers is out.
** He ordered new LOPSA stickers for conferences and events. Plans to order table clothes with our Logo on it.
** Printers are giving us a good deal and storing our stuff (LOPSA, PICC, and Cascadia). They will ship directly to conferences as needed.

* Mentorship Status report
** Kind of slow right now. Hoping that LISA will be a push and get us some more publicity. They are hoping to set up a mentorship BOF at LISA.

* Development report ''(Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)''
** Idea to try and get some media sponsors for LOPSA.

* Upcoming LOPSAgram ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Looking for more ideas for it. It will be going out on time.

* Upcoming LOPSA Live
** Think of topics for LOPSA Live or LOPSAgram
** Decided to delay LOPSA Live for one week

== Intern... (Ski) ==
* I talked with Mary and she is booked until January after classes end. If we still have the position open after that, she is very interested.
** She is working very well for Cascadia. The idea is to use her to respond to members about membership issues.
** Lois/William need to figure out about how to pay her.
** Up to Ski to see if he can find someone sooner. We have work, but it takes time to find a person.
** Discussed idea of setting up school credit for the internship.

== Global Meet Affinity Program (Ski) ==
I noticed that several of the vendors I was working with use GlobalMeet for audio conferencing so I called them to see if they would be willing to help LOPSA out. What they offered was $0.05/minute for LOPSA calls (assuming 9 folks, 60 minutes 2x a month this is $54/month) and a 5% kick back on services that LOPSA members purchase from them (this could be nice if a large company signs up). I am not too sure if we should do this.

* Decided to hold off on this one for now.
* Need to get list of what we really need from a conference call (wiki page). Ski will work on this.
* Need to get off the free ones as they are just not doing it for us.

== Sponsorships (Kizer) ==
* Review any progress on sponsorships
* Remind about some of the existing locations where we have been brainstorming sponsorship possibilities: [[Potential_prospects]]
* Pre-proposal discussion of sponsorship volunteers/staff
** William will have the sponsorship page updated. We also need to put it on the Front page of the website and possibly send out an email to the membership.
** Dan needs ideas for similar organizations in the RT ticket he is using to track benefits.
** Dan set us up in Guidestar and a non-profit in need of grants

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



== New Business ==

=== Other... ===
* Set up wiki and mail list for Tom Perrine and the leadership committee
* Decided on Yerkes award winner
* Lois will attend the education workshop at LISA and see if she can jump start LOPSA's education efforts.

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
Dan moved that we adjourn at 10:09pm, William seconded.

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