01-10
Summary of the BoD meeting Jan 10, 2006:
Present Stuart Kreitman, Jim McQuillan, Kevin Martin, Stuart Anderson,
Leon Shiman, Egbert Eich
Topics discussed:
- Management
* note taking
* system administration
- Budget
Details:
* Note taking: we will continue to collect notes taken by board
members.
+ Leon offered to create edited notes.
+ Egbert offered to create a summary from notes he took.
Use these as a basis for decision on the format for publication
* System administration
+ The question was raised if the organization needs somebody hired to
do system administration and possibly share this person with other
OS projects (idea from last year's XDevConf)
+ Stuart Anderson offerd to continue to do this for us pro bono
which would require that he is allowed to do it his way without
major interference from others to keep the burdeon on him low.
+ For backup and emergency he will give the root passwords to other
board members.
+ Stuart would also be happy to take requests to improve things like the
web site according to ideas from our community provided he is
given the time to look around for the best existing software solution.
* Budget
+ Discussion form previous week was continued and closed.
+ People agreed that we don't have to make provisions for paid management
tasks as yet as current proposal leaves enough room to add these as
discretionary items.
+ Egbert Eich agreed to provide insight into the data that he used for
his estimates.
+ He will also turn the budget into a publishable form adding the minor
modifications discussed and circulate this to the board for apporval.
+ A consensus exists that we need to work with the community to see
which events interesting for X.Org exist that we can use our funds for.