Board meeting, September 9th, 2019

Board members present

  • Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
  • Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice President)
  • Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) (Treasurer)
  • Tim Potter (tpot) (Secretary)
  • Forrest Fleming (fsf)
  • Chris Lamb (lamby)
  • Andrew Tridgell (tridge)

Board members partially present

  • None

Board members absent with regrets

  • None

Board members absent

  • Luca Filipozzi (luca)
  • Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)

Board advisors present

  • None

Registered guests present

  • Martin Michlmayr (tbm)
  • Larry Rosenman (ler)

These are the minutes for the September 9th, 2019 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.

President's Report

I've been working on getting our Directors and Officers insurance
renewed and should have that done early this week. I've also been
working with zobel on transferring treasury tasks over to him as well
as helping with the backlog in treasury tasks.

I'm also working on some outstanding paperwork for OpenSAF and getting
Snow-Man more involved with our contractors, particularly our it
contractor ler.

Treasurer's report

* Transition from Michael to me ongoing, moving 2FA tokens from
  Michael's cell phone number to G-Suite account treasurer@ attached
  phone number

* Working on backlog of treasurer-ap (account payable) RT queue, down
  to 26 open tickets (as of Saturday)

* Going through treasurer-ar (account receivable), looking for old
  pending items

* Need to provide more monthly QFX and CSV data to tbm

Secretary's report

Two items - F2F planning underway but we need to nail down a
date. Current proposed is 22nd and 23rd of November.  Also collecting
signed conflict of interest forms. Please fill these out, gpg sign,
and send them to me.

Outstanding minutes

Vote on Minutes for Monday, 12th August 2019

Forrest FlemingYes
Stephen FrostYes
Martin Zobel-HelasYes
Chris LambAbstain
Tim PotterYes
Michael SchultheissYes
Andrew TridgellAbstain

Motion passed with a vote of 5 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain.

Items up for discussion

Face-to-face meeting date and location

Information and preferences for dates are still being collected. It's very likely to be hosted at the offices of Hudson River Trading in NYC on the 22nd and 23rd of November.

Any other business

Minor discussion ensued on selecting a shared password management system.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned until Monday October 14th, 2019 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

Appendix A: Current Board Membership

Last electedNameRole
July 2018Michael SchultheissPresident
July 2018Stephen FrostVice President
July 2019Martin Zobel-HelasTreasurer
July 2017Timothy PotterSecretary
July 2018Luca Filipozzi
July 2019Forrest Fleming
July 2019Chris Lamb
July 2019Héctor Orón Martínez
July 2017Andrew Tridgell