Board meeting, September 13th, 2012
Board members present
- Bdale Garbee (bdale) (President)
- Joerg Jaspert (Ganneff) (Vice President)
- Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (Treasurer)
- Jonathan McDowell (Noodles) (Secretary)
- Clint Adams (Clint)
- Robert Brockway (Solver)
- Joshua D. Drake (linuxpoet)
- Jimmy Kaplowitz (Hydroxide)
- Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)
Board members partially present
- None
Board members absent with regrets
- None
Board members absent
- None
Board advisors present
- None
Registered guests present
- Pace Willisson (pacew)
These are the minutes for the September 13th, 2012 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.
President's Report
Bdale had nothing to report.
Treasurer's report
This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations
when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and
recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when
incurred).
Income Statement
for the Period August 01, 2012 - August 31, 2012
Income
Ordinary Income
Arch Linux 409.09
DebConf 12 29,251.50
Debian 1,561.00
Drizzle 275.00
Jenkins 40.00
LibreOffice 75.00
OpenWrt 4.00
PostgreSQL 220.00
Privoxy 5.00
SPI General 571.00
SPI 5% 143.30
The HeliOS Project 275.00
YafaRay Code Sprint 1.00
YafaRay 1.00
Total Ordinary Income 32,831.59
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Interest Income
Key Bank Money Mkt Savings 0.61
Chase BusinessClassic Checking 0.18
Chase Bus Select High Yield Savings 32.60
Total Interest Income 33.39
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Gross Income 32,864.98
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Expenses
Ordinary Expenses
Arch Linux
Processing Fees 19.86
SPI 5% 20.45
Total Arch Linux Exp 40.32
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DebConf 11
Transfer to DC12 29,251.50
Total DebConf 11 Exp 29,251.50
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DebConf 12
Transfer to ISIC 4,207.00
Total DebConf 12 Exp 4,207.00
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Debian
Console Servers 557.71
Debit Card Fee 3.00
Processing Fees 64.35
Server hardware 2,754.53
SPI 5% 78.05
Total Debian Exp 3,457.64
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Drizzle
Processing Fees 11.35
SPI 5% 13.75
Total Drizzle Exp 25.10
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Haskell
Hosting Fees 51.11
Total Haskell Exp 51.11
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Jenkins
Processing Fees 2.30
SPI 5% 2.00
Total Jenkins Exp 4.30
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LibreOffice
Processing Fees 3.35
SPI 5% 3.75
Travel Reimbursement 2,918.83
Total LibreOffice Exp 2,925.93
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OpenWrt
SPI 5% 0.20
Total OpenWrt Exp 0.20
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PostgreSQL
Processing Fees 6.40
SPI 5% 11.00
Total PostgreSQL Exp 17.40
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Privoxy
Processing Fees 0.55
SPI 5% 0.25
Total Privoxy Exp 0.80
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SPI
PaySimple Monthly Fee 29.95
Transaction Fees 8.40
Total SPI Exp 38.35
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The HeliOS Project
Processing Fees 8.05
SPI 5% 13.75
Total HeliOS Exp 21.80
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YafaRay Code Sprint
Processing Fees 0.39
SPI 5% 0.05
Total YafaRay CS Exp 0.44
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YafaRay
Processing Fees 0.39
SPI 5% 0.05
Training materials 58.33
Total YafaRay 58.77
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Total Expenses 40,100.66
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Net Income (7,235.68)
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Balance Sheet as of August 31, 2012
ASSETS
Current Assets
Chase BusinessClassic Checking with Interest 22,479.34
Chase Business Select High Yield Savings 153,734.19
Key Business Reward Checking 57,766.70
Key Business Signature Money Market Savings 36,028.98
Key Express Checking 1,035.76
Ameriprise Cash Mgmt Acct 13,406.15
Debian Debit Card 296.00
Total Current Assets 284,747.12
TOTAL ASSETS 284,747.12
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
General and current liabilities 0.00
Equity
Reserves held in trust
aptosid Earmark 100.33
Arch Linux Earmark 5,097.39
Debian Earmark 70,395.46
DebConf 12 Earmark 25,715.15
Drizzle 1,367.30
FFmpeg 57.31
Fluxbox 995.00
Freedesktop.org Earmark 21,242.61
FreedomBox Foundation Earmark 20,114.44
Gallery Earmark 7,958.56
GNU TeXmacs Earmark 162.90
Haskell Earmark 12,630.67
Jenkins Earmark 7,383.82
LibreOffice Earmark 21,711.50
madwifi-project.org Earmark 1,494.90
OpenVAS 45.71
OpenWrt 840.09
Open Voting Foundation Earmark 153.65
OSUNIX 0.56
Path64 9.31
Plan 9 Earmark 6,500.00
PostgreSQL Earmark 26,578.09
Privoxy Earmark 572.50
The HeliOS Project 411.05
Tux4Kids Earmark 8,788.85
YafaRay Code Sprint Earmark 769.14
YafaRay Earmark 4,835.01
Total held in trust 245,931.30
General reserves 38,815.82
Total Equity 284,747.12
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 284,747.12
Secretary's report
Jonathan reported he'd filled out the appropriate paperwork for SPI to be part of the Chase Community Giving program.
Outstanding minutes
Vote on Meeting Minutes for 12th July 2012:
| Clint Adams | Yes |
| Robert Brockway | Yes |
| Joshua D. Drake | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
| Jonathan McDowell | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of 9 yes, 0 missing.
Items up for discussion
Resolution 2012-09-07.rtb.1: Relicensing Debian Logos
Vote on 2012-09-07.rtb.1: Relicensing Debian Logos
| Clint Adams | Yes |
| Robert Brockway | Yes |
| Joshua D. Drake | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
| Jonathan McDowell | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of 9 yes, 0 missing.
Resolution 2012-09-13.bg.1: TideSDK as associated project
Vote on 2012-09-13.bg.1: TideSDK as associated project
| Clint Adams | Yes |
| Robert Brockway | Yes |
| Joshua D. Drake | Yes |
| Bdale Garbee | Yes |
| Joerg Jaspert | Yes |
| Jimmy Kaplowitz | Yes |
| Jonathan McDowell | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
| Martin Zobel-Helas | Yes |
Motion passed with a vote of 9 yes, 0 missing.
David Pratt from TideSDK was on channel and accepted SPI's invitation to become an associated project on behalf of TideSDK.
Any other business
A vote on the Open Bioinformatics Foundation as an SPI associated project was deferred until October as the membership had not formally be informed about the application in time. OBF mentioned that were expecting a GSoC payment by the end of October but no issues were foreseen with being able to accept that on their behalf. Bdale confirmed that he had retired from HP effective 31st August.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Thursday, October 11th, 2012 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.
Appendix A: Current Board Membership
| Last elected | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Bdale Garbee | President |
| July 2010 | Joerg Jaspert | Vice President |
| July 2012 | Jonathan McDowell | Secretary |
| July 2012 | Michael Schultheiss | Treasurer |
| July 2010 | Joshua D. Drake | |
| July 2010 | Martin Zobel-Helas | |
| July 2011 | Clint Adams | |
| July 2011 | Robert Brockway | |
| July 2011 | Jimmy Kaplowitz |
Appendix B: Resolutions
Resolution 2012-09-07.rtb.1: Relicensing Debian Logos
WHEREAS 1. The Debian Project Leader, Stefano Zacchiroli, has requested that SPI relicense the Debian logos listed in paragraph 5 below to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines. 2. The Debian Project Leader has sought and obtained legal advice on relicensing the Debian logos and has presented this advice to the Board. 3. The Debian Project lists and depicts each of its logos at http://www.debian.org/logos/. THE BOARD RESOLVES that: 4. Resolution 2008-03-19.jrk.2 is repealed. 5. The Debian logos being relicensed are: a) The Debian Open Use Logo depicting a red swirl with the word "Debian" b) The Debian Open Use Logo depicting a red swirl without the word "Debian" 6. The Debian logos listed in paragraph 5 above are relicensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 or later, or, at the recipient's option, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA) 3.0.
Resolution 2012-09-13.bg.1: TideSDK as associated project
WHEREAS 1. TideSDK is a substantial and significant Free Software project. 2. The TideSDK developers would like SPI's support and assistance, including taking donations, and holding trademarks and domain names. THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT 3. TideSDK is formally invited to become an SPI Associated Project, according to the SPI Framework for Associated Projects, SPI Resolution 1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a copy of which can be found at https://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004/2004-08-10.iwj.1/ 4. David Pratt is recognised by SPI as the authoritative decision maker and SPI liaison for TideSDK. Successors will be appointed by consensus of the TideSDK Team as defined on the tidesdk.org web site. 5. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is approved by the SPI Board.