Board meeting Minutes/28 Jan 2013

Prior: 14 Jan 2013

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 11 Feb 2013

Minutes approved: 25 Feb 2013

Present

(Subject to verification) Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, John Boris, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Matt Disney (late)

Apologies

Martin Gehrke, Jesse Trucks

Opened

20:04 Eastern Time

Closed

21:05 Eastern Time

Consent Agenda

• Minutes are on hold.

Standing Reports

• Treasurer's report
  • Evan needs to move money to tier one and Jesse can help with the credentials.
  • We have our NJ Sales tax certificate. Change the Sage to LOPSA. If we can. Evan will look into it.
  • Ski has a general sponsorship letter we can use to send out. It looks like everyone is having a hard time drumming up business.
  • William says that it is budget time and the economy is slow. Ski thinks they may be earmarking their money to more product specific areas.
  • Dan feels we should be more specific to our potential sponsors as to what we want to use their money for.

• Membership report
  • • Summary provided, no responses for non-renewals
  • It looks like PayPal pro is helping.

• Technical services report
  • Slight problem with tech team going to Splunk. Mail got messed up for a bit and all was fixed by Friday of last week. The Tech team will discuss the issue.

• Conference/events activities report
  • SCALE coming up.
  • Cascadia getting ready to open
  • LOPSA-East just rolled out their schedule and web site
  • SCALE coming up.
    • 1 trainer, 2 classes due to a loss of a room. Aleksey is doing both classes.
    • Dan, Ski is working the table. We are next to USENIX. Ski is setting up signupgenius for the volunteers

• Mentorship Status report
  • Weekly Meeting (Google Hangout) held Thursday Jan 24. Discussed LOPSAGram The team developed a request for people to be part of the core team. I will be acting as a quasi Co-Chair until Edward gets through the Fiscal year crush on his end. (Probably after April 15th). Me and Lois are on Call next week.

• Communications (LOPSAgram, #lopsa-live, etc)
  • LOPSAGram will go out this week - content appreciated
  • Please fill out lopsa-live doodle for Feb.
  • Working with William to get Ad up on Matt Simmons blog
  • Ski and Phil will discuss a hangout

• Project Management report

No Report this week

• Liaison reports (LC, etc.)
  • Dan would like to pass the LC coordinator position over to William.
    • Need: LC status, election status, communication plan

D&O Insurance Update (Kizer)

• Summary: new provider is now active

SIGs (Pettrey)

• Evan met with Nathan Harvey. Nathen is interested in potentially making DevOpsDC the first LOPSA SIG. Evan says they have about 400 members. Our Policy needs a review to see if it is still current.
• DevOPsDc is better as an affiliate
• Discussion of what is a SIG. Define difference between a SIG and an Affiliate. General consensus that this doesn't really fit our definition of a SIG.

WiAC Stipend (Disney)

• I would like LOPSA to match a $750 donation in order to guarantee at least one $1500 stipend for WiAC '13 ($750 commitment by LOPSA). I would also like to pursue a crowd-funding effort to fund a second stipend, which would either increase the stipend to $2000 or provide a second stipend.
• Motion by Matt that LOPSA commits to match a $750 donation to provide for $1500 stipend for Wiac
• William second
• Motion approved.

Adjournment

Ski motioned for adjournment William second