Interim Board meeting Minutes/28 December 2004
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Prior: 20 December 2004 |
Interim Board meeting Minutes | Next: 10 January 2005 |
Minutes approved: 10 January 2005
This document is a board working paper, and commercial in confidence.
- Present
- Geoff Halprin, Lorette Cheswick, David Parter, Trey Harris
- Meeting
- 2005-12-28 1900 US/East
- Opened
- 19:00
- Closed
1 REDACTION APPROVED.
Consent Agenda
Meeting minutes (2004-12-20) approved by consent.
Action Items
See action item register.
Unfinished Business
Legal Infrastrucure
- Report from Lorette:
- Paperwork re-submitted as "The System Administrators Guild, Inc." (Original submission as "SAGE, Inc." rejected for name clash.)
- IRS has sent end-of-year forms. (We're official from their POV.)
- Awaiting response from NJ State.
Operations Infrastructure
- Geoff: Nothing to report on AMC project.
- Spending several days disconnected over new year. Hope to catch up a bit then.
- David: Should we form a committee to participate in the AMC process?
- Lorette: Need to investigate D&O (Director and Officer) insurance.
- {6 words redacted; business sensitivity}
- Geoff:
- Our running budget item has been around that amount.
- We also need it to cover (a) volunteers, and (b) us from the acts of volunteers. [See the Guidebook.]
- AP: Lorette will investigate D&O insurance. (Action Point #20041228.01)
Computing Infrastructure
- David: Nothing to report.
Outsourcing Agreement
- Geoff to draft first revision.
- Then circulate to board, then Kirk, then lawyers, then USENIX BOD.
- Should we form a committee to review/assist with outsourcing agreement?
- Lots of members with various experiences in outsourcing and contracts.
- Must provide ability for AMC candidate to provide input on outsourcing agreement. (Geoff: We won't be able to engage an AMC until this agreement has been executed, thus guaranteeing cash flow.)
- Wiki: Ideas area. Created.
- AP: Geoff: Drop line to John Nicholson for advice on outsourcing agreement. (Action Point #20041228.02)
- AP: Lorette: Prep Lemond for outsourcing agreement. (Action Point #20041228.03)
- AP: Geoff: Form working group to review/draft outsourcing agreement. (Action Point #20041228.04)
- AP: Lorette: Draft NDA for volunteers. (Action Point #20041228.05)
Leadership Committee
- AP: Trey: Form Leadership committee. (Action Point #20041228.06)
- AP: Trey: Draft mandate for Leadership Committee. Due 2005-01-10. (Action Point #20041228.07)
Brochure
- AP: Trey: To manage brochure project. (Action Point #20041228.08)
- AP: Geoff: To send copy of old brochure to Trey. (Action Point #20041228.09)
New Business
Unannounced business
- Meeting closed
- 20:05