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;Present: Andy Cowell (VP), Scott Suehle, Steve VanDevender, Drew Adams, Danielle White<br />
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;Apologies: George Beech, Brian Globerman, Aleksey Tsalolikhin<br />
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;Guests: None<br />
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;Opened: 9:03 p.m. '''Eastern Time'''<br />
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;Closed: 9:25 p.m. '''Eastern Time'''<br />
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== Consent Agenda ==<br />
* Review minutes of {{minutes link|13 February 2018}} -- no one had written them. We're tabling approval of minutes till they are ready.<br />
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== Standing Reports ==<br />
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=== Treasurer's report ===<br />
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Brian's out, no treasurer's report this meeting.<br />
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=== Membership report (VanDevender) ===<br />
* Total active members: 625 (previous report: 652, change: -27, pending renewal: 44)<br />
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* Paying: 299 (4 new in last 30 days)<br />
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* Non-paying: 326 (11 new in last 30 days)<br />
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Paying members include Individual, Charter, Founding, and Lifetime memberships. Non-paying members include Student and Complimentary memberships.<br />
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The drop in membership from the previous report is likely due to the expiration of memberships from Cascadia 2017.<br />
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== Committee reports ==<br />
=== Conferences/Events/Chapters activities (Adams) ===<br />
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* Drew may be able to provide some volunteers for the LOPSA booth at SCALE from the other booths he is running there.<br />
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* Drew will try to connect with the SCALE organizers while at SCALE re getting LOPSA a booth at the other Linux fests that they organize.<br />
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=== Marketing/Communications (Tsalolikhin, Uphill) ===<br />
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Aleksey and Thomas are out - no report.<br />
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Drew found a candidate for the Community Manager position and will submit his resume to the board.<br />
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=== Technical Services (White) ===<br />
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No report from Danielle as she hasn't talked to Dan Rich recently.<br />
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Andy asked how to register an SSl cert as Tech Services said the Board usually takes care of that; Scott suggested that Andy ask Ski.<br />
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=== Education and Mentorship (Cowell) ===<br />
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The new mentoring program is nearly ready - it works but needs to be customized and moved to mentor.lopsa.org.<br />
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=== Recognition (Beech) ===<br />
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No report as George is out.<br />
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=== Leadership Committee (Beech) ===<br />
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No report as George is out.<br />
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Scott will follow up with Trev to ensure that Trev has all the access he needs as the new head of the leadership committee.<br />
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=== Locals/Chapters Committee (Adams) ===<br />
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No report. Drew will get with Steve after the meeting to get access to Wild Apricot.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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Drew committed to reaching out to Branson to get more detail re Branson's wiki proposal.<br />
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== Adjournment ==<br />
''Andy'' Motioned for Adjournment<br />
''Scott'' Seconded</div>Atsaloli