Board meeting Minutes/21 May 2007
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Prior: 14 May 2007 |
Board meeting Minutes | Next: 4 June 2007 |
Minutes approved: 4 June 2007
- Present
- Tom Perrine (chair), Matthew Barr, Trey Harris, Doug Hughes, Andrew Hume (note taker), Stephen Potter, Sam Albrecht
- Apologies
- Pat Wilson, Chris Palmer, Dave Parter
- Opened
- 8:10 Eastern Time
- Closed
Consent Agenda
- Approve minutes of 14 May 2007 Approved
Action Items
Board Committees
- Development Committee (Wilson/Potter)
- Partnership and Liason Committee (Perrine)
- Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation - DONE
- Albrecht recommends approval to partner with SCALE
- Albrecht - Contact SCALE regarding future cooperation - DONE
MOTION: Albrecht will pursue agreement with SCALE
- Leadership Committee (Esther Filderman)
- Wilson - Query Committee regarding election logistics (how involved does the LC want to be in that?) - DONE
- Policy Committee (Harris)
- Communications Committee
- Perrine - Follow up with SysAdmin Magazine regarding volunteers for online answer folks [due 3/20]
- Membership Committee
- Parter - Set up retention-rate report - Due 5/28
- Albrecht - Refresh conversion letter
- Wilson - Look into quarterly member drawing prizes - not done
Program Committees
- Conference Planning Committee (Wilson/Perrine)
- Technical (Online) Services (Hughes/Parter)
- Perrine - Organize Sysadmin Day 2007 site update - progress by Friday
- Perrine - Turn his lopsa-discuss posting on the CFV for Sysadmin Day into a post for the web page - progress by Friday
- Barr - Follow up on tech-team php-list(?) mailer integration into Drupal. Dropped [really Tech Team]
- 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 [due 5/28]
Non-Committee
- Financial
- Hume - Provide at Dec 2006 Treasurer's report writeup for the Board and for the web site - in progress Hume produced draft, minor revisions will be made by Hume and Perinne. [5/28]
- Albrecht:
- Provide status on IRS 501(c)(3) status [due 4/9] - still waiting for update from IRS
- Enquire whether SoCoSA would be interested in pursuing Chapter status [5/28]
- Barr:
- Harris:
- Present draft financial policies for Board approval (low priority)
- Gather material for Halprin request [2/26]
[Harris phone not working]
- Hughes:
- Work with Frisch, Chalup, Halprin, Barr on consultant resources skeleton/framework [due 6/11]
- Contact Gilbert Wilson about work-pay ideas - DONE had a discussion, he will submit some ideas
- Hume:
- Reconvene Code of Ethics review committee - in progress invite sent out; 4 replies so far; will send start command
- Palmer:
- Parter:
- Perrine:
- Perrine will work with Sam and Michele on "CONVERSION" of visitors to members [In progress]
- Potter:
- Wilson:
- All:
Standing Reports
- Treasurer's report (second meeting of the month only)
- Membership report
- See the report online for this week's status
- Online report
- Sysadmin Days report
- Development report (Meeting focus at first meeting of the month)
- Upcoming MtM (last meeting of the month only)
- Sysadmin Mag ad topic (fourth meeting of the month only)
New Jobs Board
- Albrecht thinks this is still hung up on our tech side. Sponsors and revenue accounts are waiting. Can we get a target completion date? [Hughes to do this week]]
Sys Admin Advertisement
- Next deadline is 5/30 and JD needs input. Albrecht recommends pushing SysAdmin Days
New Business
Meeting on Memorial Day?
- Recommendation - "Nay" [next meeting June 4]
Elections
The Board discussed and approved of the Leadership Committee's proposed election timeline.