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{{minutes box|before=20 March 2006|after=3 April 2006}}

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{{minutes approved|10 April 2006}}

;Present: Tom Perrine (chair), Doug Hughes, Andrew Hume, Chris Palmer, David Parter, Stephen Potter, Pat Wilson (note taker), Sam Albrecht

;Apologies: Matthew Barr, Trey Harris

;Opened: 20:05 <b>Eastern Time</b>

;Closed: 21:26 <b>Eastern Time</b>

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|13 March 2006}}'''
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|20 March 2006}}'''

Consent agenda approved.

== Action Items ==
=== Board Committees ===

* Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)
** Wilson, Potter - Work on proposals for potential sponsors - '''Potter to take up proposal from Wilson'''

* Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
** Potter - Investigate potential discounts from targeted companies - '''in progress'''

* Leadership Committee (Greg Rose)

* Policy Committee (Harris)
** Barr, Harris - Work on {{policy link|Third-party discounts for members}} - '''no report'''

* Communications Committee

* Membership Committee
** Parter, Hughes - Gather data for non-paid lopsa.org account holders - '''Done'''
** Harris - Write and send a letter to non-paid lopsa.org account holders encouraging them to join. - '''no report'''
** Parter, Hughes - Make nice 403 error page for non-members who attempt to access member-only parts of the website - '''Done''' ''(nicer, anyway. edit /access_403 if you want to change it)''.
** Harris - Produce a proposal for "sprint" membership drive mode. - '''no report''' ''Parter will see if he can help.''
** Parter - Look into "ongoing" mode membership drive mode issues - '''in progress''' ''see on-going membership recruitment rewards on wiki''

=== Program Committees ===

* Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)
** Parter - Write a note to the intl members asking whether they'd like to be ambassadors for LOPSA to SANE - '''draft done'''
** Perrine - Send a Parter-written note to the intl members asking whether they'd like to be ambassadors for LOPSA to SANE - '''not done''' ''waiting for note''

* Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)
** Parter - Monthly transaction/product sales reports - '''in progress / stalled'''
** Parter - Mailing lists/online forum - '''in progress - need visual review/work from theme team'''
** Parter - Sponsorships page from database - '''stalled'''
** Hughes - Sponsorships in "userdb" interface - '''not done'''

* Content Services Committee (Palmer/Potter)
** Parter, Palmer - Revise the About Us page and begin the corporate history. - '''in progress'''

=== Non-Committee ===

* Financial
** Hume - Present draft financial policies for Board approval. - '''in progress'''
*** Hume to bundle raw process notes to Harris for policy. - '''Done'''

* Albrecht:
** Search for other NDAs that may be in office
*** Found one - that makes a total of 2.
** Albrecht gave an IRS status update.

''[ Palmer joins at 20:34 ]''

[ Palmer provides updates on his action items (''in context'') ]

''[ Palmer leaves at 20:36 ]''

* Barr:

* Harris:
** Post a description of the Resume Standards project - '''no report'''

* Hughes:

* Hume:
** Work with Usenix to pursuade them to sign a grant letter to the IRS by 30 March 2006 - '''in progress'''

* Palmer:

* Parter:

* Perrine:
** Incorporate startup costs in business plan - '''Done'''
** Address Albrecht comments on business plan - '''Done'''
** Re-post business plan and send mail to Board - '''Done'''

* Potter:

* Wilson:
** Produce a proposal for a volunteer recognition program (with Harris, Parter) - '''no action'''

* All
** Re-read business plan

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report ''(first meeting of the month only)''
** Jan 06 Financials sent by Albrecht to Board
** Feb 06 Financials sent by Albrecht to Board
* Membership report
** See wiki for this week's status
* Online report
** There's been significant progress in Tools and Standards projects in the past week
** Perrine met with the BitPusher folks while in the area and reported some techincal details

== Other conferences ==

* MIT SPAM

This imminent; Barr and Palmer will attend and be LOPSA ambassadors.

* Usenix ATC

There is no vendor show at the ATC; we wish to have a presence, but need to investigate the best way to accomplish this. It's noted that there are lots of local LOPSA members, so we shouldn't have a problem getting volunteers.

ACTION ITEM: Perrine to email Young and inquire about getting some space (ala CACert) for a LOPSA presence.

ACTION ITEM: Conference Committee to get the "LOPSA event presence" volunteers going and pointed at ATC.

* LOPSA event

Preliminarly thoughts/ideas were presented; marketing ideas solicited from Board members. It's probably time to ask for non-Board volunteers to help.

== Notes/announcements ==
* Hume will be absent April 3rd; apologies.

== Adjournment ==

'''MOTION to Adjourn by Hume, seconded by Potter.''' Adjourned at 21:26 ET

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 * Policy Committee (Harris)
-** Barr, Harris - Work on {{policy link|Third-party discounts for members}} - '''no report'''
+** Barr, Harris - Work on Third-party discounts for members policy - '''no report'''
 * Communications Committee

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