September 2008

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September 07, 2008. Location: Spider House, Austin, TX. 10am

Board Members present:

  • Silona Bonewald - President
  • Michelle DeFrance - Treasurer
  • Joshua Gay - Membership Chair (present remotely)
  • Bob Blakley
  • Edwin Wise - Secretary (present remotely)

August Minutes Reviewed and approved

Michelle reviewed our financial statement: 

  About 2,900 unobligated cash, the computer (asset), no liabilities
  3,300 in contributions, 2,500 in expenses
  Future expenses: codeathon, BoD insurance (est. 2,500)
  Need more funds for codeathon
  Statement approved for the record
  
  Note: Keep the financial info on Wiki

Contents

[edit] Old Business Review

Need:

  • Insurance
  • Utility Software
  • Gliffy account

Status of Tech Soup: Silona - don’t know yet, in process

State of Donations on website: Randy/Silona met, module installed, in process of setting up; Josh knows someone who can help with setup


[edit] New Business

Codeathon, toughen up definitions on 3 rules:

  • Code OS status; do via license to apply? See OSI variations?

Josh: use OSI, FSF only, or advance-LoTV-approved license

  • Status of organization (non profit) via cert. recp’t according to gov’t rules
  • Universal solution (generic utility; not specific to one context); LoTV approval in spirit of general purpose utility and Non Profit purpose

Develop LoTV guidelines/standards; put on website

Do we want to participate with various transparent/open gov’t movements, e.g. Reason Foundation “transparency oath”, Kato Foundation, etc?

Need to discuss $25/mo subscription to Gliffy.com (wiki for graphing) Michelle says our finances are stable enough to do so. Trial subscription approved.

  • Note: requires flash 7
  • Michelle created our trial account

[edit] Report from Chairs

Silona organizing monthly membership meeting in Austin / Spiderhouse or other location (we need more members)

Need Codeathon committee:

Membership report: Josh - need to organizing a hierarchy of members / mailing list / meetings

Leslie needs advisory board paperwork / definition of what it means to be on the advisory board / board of directors

Codeathon: Was proposed for November, but corporate support has faltered so do later.

What timeframe to try for now, and what content? 

  Timeframe unknown
  Content is developed by members of codeathon
  Desired to have codeathon for transparent budget components

July codeathon may be able to be supported in part by LBJ Library, if goal is transparent gov't components

[edit] Action Items

  • Josh & Silona to draft rules for codeathon participation wrt: open source definition, non-profit status, and universal applicability of the project
  • Silona make a web page to gather info on compatible foundations/organizations with transparent gov't as their goal
  • BoD Vote on the reason.org petition, others perhaps, Oct meeting
  • Each BoD member to propose 3 to 5 potential new members and criteria ideas for what makes a good member / corporate sponsor
  • Bob to determine LBJ Library ability to support July 2009 codeathon
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