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2020 04 20

Board of Directors Meeting

Directors in attendance: asai bernardzhao bzh cooperc dphan fydai jaw kmo ncberberi njha snarain

Guests in attendance: bencuan minos nint wqnguyen

Guests marked with a * were appointed to BoD.

  • Social last Saturday with OCF x CSUA

  • Interest group meetings were pretty successful - ran first weekly meetings for #kubernetes, #hpc; #linux-infra had their second meeting

    • Positive turnouts on many of these meetings
    • Should probably consider moving some of these meetings off of Wednesday

    • appdev, #data still has yet to run a meeting

    • bzhao makes a mention of meeting frequency

  • mfox3 Stage 2'd opstaff payments (Stage 2 did not work for agents, issues on CalLink)

    • Need to follow up on what to do during lockdown

  • ATDP: Sam wants to setup a meeting

    • Hoping to place this meeting after elections

  • Lots of OCF Birthdays!!!!

  • Twitch streaming

    • Streams still happened this week (thank you!), but people should still livestream! Update the calendar

  • New Mastodon mods

    • "Is Mastodon still being used?" Yes, peering request came in today!
    • kmo elected to moderator by BoD

  • Voting Software

    • Project Helios brought up, seems to be the uncontested option so far
    • kmo will work on opening up a sample election sometime towards the end of BoD

  • Next check in with LEAD center

    • Need to clarify circumstances regarding funds rollover
    • Want to be able to have access to STF funds by the beginning of the semester instead of November
    • Will reduce logistical nightmares if done, but for past few semesters, financial accounts have been a nightmare...

  • RIT presentation tomorrow

    • We will be attending! Giving an information presentation.
    • Should be a short 10 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A

  • New Nominations for SM/GM:

    • The schedule is finishing nominations this week, start elections next week + begin nominations for committees

All GM nominations (& = 4/13 nominations) & dphan and kmo nominated by php; bernardzhao seconds; both accept - bernardzhao and kmo nominated for GM by dphan; bernardzhao rejects + snarain nominated by wqnguyen; minos seconds; snarain accepts + snarain and kmo nominated by dphan for GM; cooperc seconds; both accept - njha nominated for supreme ruler by Nint; it's joke + njha and kmo nominated by Nint for GM; snarain seconds; both accept / njha and snarain nominated by Nint for GM; no seconds atm + wqnguyen and kmo nominated by bernardzhao for GM; Nint seconds; both accept - nint and kmo nominated by bernardzhao for GM; snarain seconds; Nint goes "thinky thonky" and declines + bencuan and kmo nominated by kmo for GM; php seconds; both accept

All SM nominations (& = 4/13 nominations) & jaw and kmo nominated by php; cooperc seconds; both accept & jaw and wqnguyen nominated by bernardzhao; cooperc seconds; both accept & jaw and snarain nominated by bernardzhao; cooperc seconds; both accept & fydai and kmo nominated by jaw; cooperc seconds; both accept & wqnguyen and snarain nominated by bernardzhao; jaw seconds; both accept & fydai and jaw nominated by fydai; kmo seconds; both accept + njha and jaw nominated by cooperc for SM; kmo seconds; both accept + njha and kmo nominated by jaw for SM; cooperc seconds; both accept + kmo and wqnguyen nominated by snarain for SM; cooperc seconds; both accept

Quorum for this meeting is 7

Meeting Started at 19:10

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Meeting Adjourned at 20:11

Notetaker: kmo