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{{minutes box|before=29 November 2010|after=10 January 2011}} 

{{minutes approved|10 January 2011}}


;Present: Philip Kizer (chair), Matthew Barr,  William Bilancio, Ski Kacoroski,  Dan Rich, Derek Balling

;Apologies: Jesse Trucks, Lois Bennett, Jimmy Kaplowitz

;Opened: 2006 '''Eastern Time'''

;Closed: 2026 '''Eastern Time'''

== Consent Agenda ==
* '''Approve minutes of {{minutes link|29 November 2010}}'''

== Action Items ==

* Philip has made progress on redoing corporate insurance.
* William working on forum software for the website.  Tentative go live date is Jan 1st.
* Please look at tickets in the board queue - there are 53 tickets.  Please check and close out ones that you can.

== Standing Reports ==

* Treasurer's report ''(second meeting of the month only)''
** Skipped as Lois not attending

* Membership report (Ski)
** Are getting new members, plan to send out notes to members who have not renewed.
** Talked with all pending members and got one to renew and another commit to renew in January
** Dan working on better reports for Ski.  9 new members in last 2 weeks.

* Technical services report (William)
** lopsa-002 wiped and ready to be the test/dev server.  Needed to prepare for upgrade to 10.04.
** Email to board with all mail lists with ideas on which ones we can close
** Spam blocking enabled on mail list server
** Took over lists where Dave Parter was owner

* Conference/events activities report (William)
** SCALE (Feb) - 4 classes coming up - Aleksey, Matt Disney, Ski, & Cambridge computer doing classes
** Cascadia (Mar) - Tutorials all set up, got 3rd bronze sponsor
** PICC (Apr) - just starting to ramp up
** Edu Committee - need help for this committee

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

* Upcoming MtM ''(last meeting of the month only)''
** Lois not here to talk about this


==== Approve new chapter request (Bilancio) ====
* Request for a BBLisa in Boston to become a LOPSA Local Group.  Six members are: Adam Moskowitz, Lois Bennett, Chris Palmer, Ali Tayarani, Christopher Allison, Patrick Cable. No need for website or list server. 
Bilancio recommends approval.

==== Approve new chapter request 2 (Bilancio) ====
* Request for a SASAG in Seattle to become a LOPSA Local Group.  Eight members are: Ski Kacoroski, Lee Nomad, Scott McDermott, Ian Dotson, Benjamin Krueger, Chris Mosetick, Christian Paredes, Andrew Sweger. 

No need for website or list server. 

Bilancio recommends approval.

* William motioned to approved both new chapters, Ski seconded.  Motion passed unanimously.

== New Business ==

* William moved to skip meeting on Dec 27th, Philip seconded due to the holidays.

* Dan asked about using Skype for conference calls because of problems with folks dialing in and if we want to make this a public meeting, we cannot see who is online.  Derek wondered if we should pay for a service as we are saving a lot of money.  Matt and William offered the idea of using their work conference call service.  Dan noted that if they leave the board, that is a problem.  Derek reviewed services 2 years ago and will check into a refreshed quote to see the costs.

* Need to check into different date for biweekly meeting as Jimmy has a few conflicts.

== Notes/announcements ==

== Adjournment ==
A motion was made by Dan and seconded by William to adjourn the meeting at 2026 ET.