Board meeting, May 9th, 2022

Board members present

  • Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President)
  • Stephen Frost (Snow-Man) (Vice President)
  • Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi) (Treasurer)
  • Tim Potter (tpot) (Secretary)
  • Joe Conway (jconway)
  • Forrest Fleming (fsf)
  • Milan Kupcevic (milan)
  • Chris Lamb (lamby)

Board members partially present

  • None

Board members absent with regrets

  • None

Board members absent

  • Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel)

Registered guests present

  • Luna Jernberg (bittin)
  • Jonatas Luis Nogueira (jesusalva)
  • Célestin Matte (Perdu), contractor

These are the minutes for the May 9th, 2022 SPI Board Meeting, held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. LOG.

President's Report

Stephen Frost, Héctor Orón Martínez, and I met the past few days in
Indianapolis. We got signatories updated on all of our bank accounts
and met with our wealth management adviser at Merrill Lynch and are
planning some account consolidations. We also worked heavily in RT and
got both the board and treasurer queues to a more reasonable
level. Héctor should have full access to handle all treasury tasks now
but I continue to be available to assist with treasury tasks as
needed.

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.

Treasurer's report

- Updated signatories for bank accounts
- Enabled Zelle donations via treasurer@spi-inc.org, website updated
- Cleaned up treasurer and board RT queues
- Treasurer has now more access for billing information and USD payments

Secretary's report

Minutes and resolutions are all up to date. Please let me know if you
see any errors and I'm happy to fix things up.

Vote On Minutes For Previous Meetings

Vote on minutes for meeting Monday March 28th 2022

Joe ConwayYes
Forrest FlemingYes
Stephen FrostYes
Milan KupcevicYes
Chris LambYes
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Tim PotterYes
Michael SchultheissYes

Vote passed with 8 yes, 0 no and 0 abstain.

Vote on minutes for meeting Monday April 11th 2022

Joe ConwayYes
Forrest FlemingYes
Stephen FrostYes
Milan KupcevicYes
Chris LambAbstain
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Tim PotterYes
Michael SchultheissYes

Vote passed with 7 yes, 0 no and 1 abstain.

Items up for discussion

Vote on resolution 2022-05-09.mcs.1: Updated SPI Financial Account resolution

Joe ConwayYes
Stephen FrostYes
Milan KupcevicYes
Chris LambYes
Héctor Orón MartínezYes
Tim PotterYes
Michael SchultheissYes

Vote passed with 7 yes, 0 no and 0 abstain.

Any other business

Stephen Frost reminded directors to be more responsive in addressing mails sent to the board address as this is the primary contact point for SPI board members and directors.

Nominations for SPI's 2022 board election open 2022-07-01. Four board seats are up for election this year. If you are interested in running for the SPI board, feel free to reach out to current board members to get information about the SPI board and its director needs.

It was decided that SPI would not renew the expiring Drizzle trademark due to the project being abandoned many years ago.

SPI is very interested in having folks help us move things forward, and you don't have to be a board member to help! We have started working on a specific document of things that we need help with and ideas we have about what can be done, including- project liaison (from SPI back to projects to ask them about how SPI can help them and other things). We are working on moving the member website towards a django/python stack for this which will hopefully be easier for new folks to help with), and there's more that volunteers could definitely help us out with! Of course, we also need folks on the board who can commit to making the regular meetings and handling tasks which need to be done.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned until Monday June 13th 2022 at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

Appendix A: Current Board Membership

Last electedNameRole
July 2021Michael SchultheissPresident
July 2021Stephen FrostVice President
July 2019Héctor Orón MartínezTreasurer
July 2020Tim PotterSecretary
July 2020Joe Conway
July 2019Forrest Fleming
July 2021Milan Kupcevic
July 2019Chris Lamb
July 2019Martin Zobel-Helas