Minutes for October 14, 2003 meeting

[Wichert Akkerman]

SPI board meeting, October 14, 2003
  Meeting opened: 19:14 UTC
  Meeting closed: 20:10 UTC

Attending:
  Benj. Mako Hill
  Drew Streib
  Ean Schuessler
  Ian Jackson
  John Goerzen
  Martin 'Joey' Schulze
  Wichert Akkerman

Attending SPI members:
  David Graham
  Manoj Srivastava
  Michael Banck
  Peter Palfrader
  Stuart Walsh

Agenda:

  1. Opening
  2. Roll call
  3. Board membership for expired members Ian Jackson and Martin Schulze
  4. Approving minutes from July 8 and September 9 meetings
  5. OFTC update
  6. Partnering with Transforming Knowledge Spaces
  7. Date for next meeting

3. Board membership for expired members Ian Jackson and Martin Schulze

Since both Ian Jackson and Martin Schulze finished their three year term on
the board and Manoj Srivastava resigned from the board there are vacancies
which should be filled. There were a number of competing proposals from
David Graham and Ian Jackson to fill the vacant positions on the board. The
basic differences between the proposals from David and Ian are:

  * Davids proposal calls for an immediate election
  * Ians proposal immediately temporarily reappoints Ian and Joey
  * Ians proposal adds an apology for the ad-hoc organisation of this
    election and the fact that the bylaws reform has stalled
  * Davids proposal calls for two new board members to be select, while
    Ians proposals allow two or three new members

In order to to select a final resolution Ian proposed to vote on the
separate issues. Ean called for a vote to immediately reappoint Ian
and Joey:

  Benjamin: abstains
  Drew:     in favour
  Ean:      in favour
  John:     against
  Wichert:  abstains

The motion passes with two votes in favour and one against. Next Ean called
for a vote on appointing two or three board members:

  Benjamin: three
  Drew:     three
  Ean:      three
  Wichert:  abstains
  John:     two

This brought the current selection to a variant of Ian's proposal
2003-10-14.iwj.5. Wichert suggested changing paragraph 19 to change
the time-frame for suggesting bylaws changes since he felt the board
could work on that during the election process as well. Nobody
objects to the amendment. Ean calls for a vote:

  Benjanim: in favour
  Drew:     in favour
  Ean:      in favour
  John:     in favour
  Wichert:  in favour

Resolution 2003-10-14.iwj.6 is accepted with five votes in favour and none
against.


4. Approving minutes from July 8 and September 9 meetings

John Goerzen moved to accept the minutes for both meetings.

  Benjamin: in favour
  Drew:     abstains
  Ean:      in favour
  Ian:      in favour
  Joey:     abstains
  John:     in favour

The minutes are accepter with 4 votes in favour and none against.


5. OFTC update

Ian complained there was no report submitted for this agenda as required
by resolution 2003-09-09.iwj.1, however since the update is very short Ean
allowed the update.

David Graham announced that OFTC has a new chair: Stuart Walsh. Everyone
congratulates Stuart on his new position.


6. Partnering with Transforming Knowledge Spaces

Benjamin proposed resolution 2003-09-16.bmh.1.mgs which proposes to partner
with the Transforming Knowledge Spaces organisation. Ean called for a vote:

  Benjamin: in favour
  Drew:     in favour
  Ean:      in favour
  Ian:      in favour
  Joey:     in favour
  John:     abstains

the resolution is accepted with 5 votes in favour and none against.


7. Date for next meeting

The date for the next meeting is set at November 11, 19:00 UTC

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Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>    It is simple to make things.
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