2009-03-18
This is the proposed agenda for the Board meeting of Wednesday, March 18th, 2009, to be held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. Note that this time is one hour later than the February meeting in the local time of those parts of the US and Canada which observe Daylight Saving Time.
- Opening
- Roll call (regrets received from Martin Zobel-Helas and Neil McGovern)
- President's report (Bdale Garbee)
- Treasurer's report (Michael Schultheiss)
- Secretary's report (Jimmy Kaplowitz)
- Outstanding minutes
- Neil's responsibility
- March 19th, 2008
(prepared by Martin Zobel-Helas, will be HTMLified later)
- Will need slight amendment later to add list of registered guests and the text of resolution 2008-03-19.jrk.2
- June 18th, 2008
- July 2nd, 2008 (annual meeting)
- August 20th, 2008
- March 19th, 2008
(prepared by Martin Zobel-Helas, will be HTMLified later)
- Jimmy's responsibility
- Neil's responsibility
- Items up for discussion:
- Resolution 2009-03-18.mcs.1: Update Ameriprise's owner list (Michael Schultheiss)
- Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1.iwj.1: OpenWRT as associated project (Jimmy Kaplowitz)
- Any other business
- Next board meeting - Wednesday, April 15th, 2009, [19:00 or 20:00 UTC? The EU will have started summer time.]
President's Report
(none)
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 February 01, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Income
Ordinary Income
Debian 30,950.53
Gallery 140.00
Madwifi.org 50.00
OpenOffice.org 5.26
PostgreSQL 16,949.26
SPI General 110.00
SPI 5% 104.75
Tux4Kids 415.00
Total Ordinary Income 48,724.80
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Interest Income
Key Bank Money Mkt Savings 48.94
Total Interest Income 48.94
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Gross Income 48,773.74
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Expenses
Ordinary Expenses
Debian
Processing Fees 30.17
SPI 5% 47.53
Total Debian Exp 77.70
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Gallery
Processing Fees 5.08
SPI 5% 7.00
Total Gallery Exp 12.08
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Madwifi.org
Processing Fees 2.00
SPI 5% 2.50
Total Madwifi.org Exp 4.50
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OpenOffice.org
Processing Fees 0.21
SPI 5% 0.26
Total OpenOffice.org Exp 0.47
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PostgreSQL
Processing Fees 2.75
SPI 5% 47.46
Travel Reimbursement 228.41
Total PostgreSQL Exp 278.62
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SPI
PaySimple Monthly Fee 29.95
Postage 19.70
PO Box Renewal Fee 70.00
Transaction Fees 49.42
Total SPI Exp 169.07
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Total Expenses 542.44
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Net Income 48,231.30
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Balance Sheet as of February 28, 2009
ASSETS
Current Assets
Key Business Reward Checking 5,820.17
Key Business Signature Money Market Savings 193,034.06
Ameriprise Cash Mgmt Acct 13,389.51
Total Current Assets 212,243.74
TOTAL ASSETS 212,243.74
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
General and current liabilities 0.00
Equity
Reserves held in trust
Debian Earmark 127,934.92
Drupal Earmark 2,650.00
Freedesktop.org Earmark 1,666.83
Gallery Earmark 5,729.14
GNU TeXmacs Earmark 9.70
Madwifi.org Earmark 1,185.20
OpenOffice.org Earmark 1,327.32
Open Voting Foundation Earmark 392.67
Plan 9 Earmark 6,500.00
PostgreSQL Earmark 30,851.23
Tux4Kids Earmark 1,865.05
Total held in trust 180,112.06
General reserves 32,131.68
Total Equity 212,243.74
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 212,243.74
Secretary's report
- Within 40 minutes of the conclusion of the February 11 board meeting, the Board and I received an email from Ken Starks of HeliOS accepting SPI's offer of associated project status for HeliOS, thus making it official.
- Also, I finally made the promised typo fix to the May 2008 minutes (removing a duplicated occurrence of the word "announced").
- Lastly, the information in Appendix A has been changed slightly, showing the date of last election to the board instead of the date of first election, and reducing the granularity of the displayed date to the month level. This is more useful for planning future election cycles and had been requested for some time by David Graham. Thanks to him for the idea.
Resolution 2009-03-18.mcs.1: Update Ameriprise's owner list
(Secretary's note: The resolution was submitted without a title. I have supplied one based on the introductory text in Michael's email.)
WHEREAS
1. Ameriprise Financial ("Ameriprise") currently holds funds in an
account for Software in the Public Interest, Inc. ("SPI");
2. Ameriprise's list of account owners for SPI's account is out of
date, listing only Branden Robinson (a former SPI board member) and
James R. Kaplowitz;
3. Ameriprise requires a Board resolution or meeting minutes
enumerating those who should be listed as account owners for a
corporation;
THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT
3. The account owners for SPI's Ameriprise account should be updated to
include Michael C. Schultheiss, remove Branden Robinson, and retain
James R. Kaplowitz;
4. This resolution supersedes resolution 2006-04-18.br.1
Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1.iwj.1: OpenWRT as associated project
WHEREAS
1. OpenWRT is a substantial and useful open source project.
2. OpenWRT would like SPI's support and assistance, including taking
donations.
THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT
3. OpenWRT 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. SPI recognises that OpenWRT is governed by the Charter available at
https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/NonProfit, as modified from time to time
via the processes in the Charter itself.
5. SPI understands that Andy Boyett and Gregers Petersen have been
appointed according to the Charter by OpenWRT as liaisons to SPI.
6. This invitation will lapse 60 days after it is approved by the SPI Board
unless each liaison, within that time, has accepted it on behalf of
OpenWRT, agreed with the other liaison on a single willing third person
who will be asked to resolve disagreeing instructions from the two
liaisons, and communicated that choice to the Board.
7. The third person referred to in paragraph 6 may be replaced under the
same procedure as any other decision belonging to OpenWRT.