Board meeting, April 26th, 2021
Board members present
- Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
- Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice-President)
- Tim Potter (tpot) (Secretary)
- Joe Conway (jconway)
- Forrest Fleming (fsf)
- Chris Lamb (lamby)
- Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi)
Board members partially present
- None
Board members absent with regrets
- None
Board members absent
- Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel) (Treasurer)
Registered guests present
- Milan Kupcevic (milan)
These are the minutes for the April 26th, 2021 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.
President's Report
Continued thanks to SPI Vice President, Stephen Frost, for handling contracting with SPI's contractors. Stephen continues to do a fantastic job working with our contractors and legal counsel. I sent tpot certified documents requested by UK counsel per an associated project's request
Treasurer's report
Report presented by Michael Schultheiss on behalf of Martin Zobel-Helas.
The SPI treasury team is continuing to process requests and is striving for more timely ticket handling. The backlog is being processed but if there are any board members who would like to assist with treasury tasks, additional help is always welcome.
Secretary's report
I've also sent off some requested information to UK counsel and hopefully our engagement should start soon. Please respond to the vF2F poll for May (see email). I've scheduled a bunch of times across a bunch of days so hopefully we should be able to have some overlap where everyone can join.
Vote On Minutes For Previous Meetings
Vote on Minutes for meeting Monday 8th February 2021
| Joe Conway | Yes |
| Forrest Fleming | Yes |
| Stephen Frost | Yes |
| Chris Lamb | Yes |
| Héctor Orón Martínez | Abstain |
| Tim Potter | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Vote passes with 6 yes, 0 no, and 1 abstain.
Vote on Minutes for meeting Monday 8th March 2021
| Joe Conway | Yes |
| Forrest Fleming | Yes |
| Stephen Frost | Yes |
| Chris Lamb | Yes |
| Héctor Orón Martínez | Yes |
| Tim Potter | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Vote passes with 7 yes, 0 no, and 0 abstain.
Items up for Discussion
Milan Kupcevic as interim director
| Joe Conway | Yes |
| Forrest Fleming | Yes |
| Stephen Frost | Yes |
| Chris Lamb | Yes |
| Héctor Orón Martínez | Yes |
| Tim Potter | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Vote passes with 7 yes, 0 no, and 0 abstain.
Additional IT contractor
Approval was given to approach a contractor recommended by the previous contractor to perform infrastructure upgrades and other IT work.
Parting gift for Luca
Was agreed that this would be a great idea and Tim Potter took an action item to complete the task.
Moving to G-Suite for SPI email
No objections were made to the idea in principle but it may be somewhat complicated given the split between mailing lists and personal email.
OpenWrt Trademark Counsel
For OpenWrt in the process of moving from SPI to the Software Freedom Conservancy it there were no objections to the sam lawyer being used for both parties to transfer the OpenWrt trademark. A vote was taken nonetheless.
| Joe Conway | Yes |
| Forrest Fleming | Yes |
| Stephen Frost | Yes |
| Chris Lamb | Yes |
| Héctor Orón Martínez | Yes |
| Tim Potter | Yes |
| Michael Schultheiss | Yes |
Vote passes with 7 yes, 0 no, and 0 abstain.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned until Monday May 10th 2021 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.
Appendix A: Current Board Membership
| Last elected | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Michael Schultheiss | President |
| July 2018 | Stephen Frost | Vice President |
| July 2019 | Martin Zobel-Helas | Treasurer |
| July 2020 | Timothy Potter | Secretary |
| July 2020 | Joe Conway | |
| July 2019 | Forrest Fleming | |
| April 2021 | Milan Kupcevic (interim) | |
| July 2019 | Chris Lamb | |
| July 2019 | Héctor Orón Martínez |