Board meeting Minutes/19 March 2007

Prior: 12 March 2007

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 26 March 2007

Minutes approved: 26 March 2007

Present

Tom Perrine (chair), Matthew Barr, Trey Harris, Doug Hughes, Andrew Hume, Chris Palmer, Stephen Potter, Pat Wilson (note taker), Sam Albrecht

Apologies

David Parter

Opened

20:06 Eastern Time

Closed

20:58 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Approve minutes of 12 March 2007

Passes

Action Items

Board Committees

• Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)

• Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
  • Palmer - Contact local office of possible partner - in progress still trying to arrange a meeting
  • Barr, Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation [due 2/26] - in progress

• Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)

• Policy Committee (Harris)

• Communications Committee
  • Perrine - Follow up with SysAdmin Magazine regarding volunteers for online answer folks [due 3/20] - no progress

• Membership Committee
  • Hughes - Work on different instances of member renewal letters - in progress
  • Hughes, Parter - Implement member opt-out of non-LOPSA mailings - DONE

Program Committees

• Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)

• Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)

• Content Services Committee (Palmer/Potter)
  • Palmer, Potter - Draft a plan regarding how a paid/compensated content director might help the website, and what sort of requirements we might make for that position - no progress

Non-Committee

• Financial
  • Hume - Provide at Dec 2006 Treasurer's report writeup for the Board and for the web site - not done

• Albrecht:
  • Provide status on IRS 501.c.3 status [due 3/12] - in progress
  • Query insurance company regarding possible member insurance options [due 2/12] - DONE

MOTION by Hume, seconded by Potter to have Ablrecht move forward and implement this program Passes

• Barr:
  • php-list(?) mailer integration into Drupal - no progress

• Harris:
  • Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority) - no progress
  • Gather material for Halprin request [2/26] - no progress

• Hughes:
  • Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on resume resources skeleton/framework [due 4/1]
  • Contact Gilbert Wilson about work-pay ideas. - no progress

• Hume:
  • Chat with SNIA regarding possible partnering - no progress change to low priority
  • Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - in progress

• Palmer:

• Parter:

• Perrine:
  • Perrine will work with Sam and Michele on "CONVERSION" of visitors to members - no progress

• Potter:

• Wilson:
  • Determine whether there's enough interest to staff a booth at Linuxfest Northwest - no progress

• All:

Standing Reports

• Treasurer's report (first meeting of the month only)

• Membership report
  • See the online report for this week's status

ACTION ITEM: Parter to set up retention-rate report

ACTION ITEM: tech-team to instrument website for Google analytics

• Online report

ACTION ITEM: Perrine to organize Sysadmin Day 2007 site update

• Sysadmin Days report

TIming of SD NJ might lend itself to combining with the new Board succession meeting

• Development report

• Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)

New LOPSA Chapter

Albrecht recommends approval of LOPSA - AUSTIN as a provisional chapter. They have met the initial requirements.

MOTION by Hume, seconded by Potter to approve LOPSA-AUSTIN as a provisional chapter. Passes.

Adjournment

MOTION to adjourn by Wilson, seconded by Barr Passes; adjourned at 20:50 ET