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| 1 | +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2025 Software in the Public Interest, Inc."]] |
| 2 | +[[!meta license="Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported"]] |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +# Board meeting, July 14th, 2025 |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +__Board members present__ |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +* Zach van Rijn (zv) (Secretary) |
| 9 | +* Joe Conway (jconway) |
| 10 | +* Michael Schultheiss (schultmc) (President) |
| 11 | +* Jeremy Stanley (fungi) |
| 12 | +* Katie McMillan (mappx) |
| 13 | +* Forrest Fleming (fsf) |
| 14 | +* Héctor Orón Martínez (zumbi) (Treasurer) |
| 15 | +* Jonatas Luis Nogueira (jesusalva) (Vice-President) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +__Board members partially present__ |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +* Milan Kupcevic (milan) |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +__Board members absent with regrets__ |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +* None |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +__Board members absent__ |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +* None |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +__Registered guests present__ |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +* Célestin Matte (Perdu), contractor |
| 32 | +* TODO(fungi): Get list of other registered guests from zv |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +These are the minutes for the July 14th, 2025 SPI Board Meeting, |
| 35 | +held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. |
| 36 | +[LOG](../../../logs/2025/2025-07-14.txt). |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +## President's report |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +<pre> |
| 42 | +The July meeting of SPI is its Annual General Meeting. Thank you to Martin |
| 43 | +Michlmayr, Zach van Rijn, and Kassia Nogueira for compiling our Annual Report. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Martin, Héctor and I have been working with our auditor to get our 2024 |
| 46 | +financial statements audited. We are also working with the auditing firm on |
| 47 | +filing our New York State and Federal annual filings. We have received a 6 |
| 48 | +month extension for the time to file and are confident the filings will be |
| 49 | +completed by the November 15, 2025 deadline. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +The SPI Board is currently seeking nominations for 5 open/expiring board terms. |
| 52 | +Nominations will be open through 23:59 UTC on 2025-07-21. See the announcement |
| 53 | +at |
| 54 | +https://archives.spi-inc.org/message-id/CALE%3D2%3D9BZ%2B%2BL%2BQnm78uem%3DEJOYcpsb1oZA-GSO%3DRrNZb6k7dfQ%40mail.gmail.com |
| 55 | +for more information |
| 56 | +</pre> |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +## Vice President's report |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +* None |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +## Treasurer's report |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +<pre> |
| 67 | +Treasurer reports are in progress being prepared and to be published soon. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +There are few payments in the queue, we'll work on those over the month. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +If you have any urgency, please reach out. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +Thanks very much for the continuous work of the treasurer team, including |
| 74 | +president, vice-president and contractors. |
| 75 | +</pre> |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +## Secretary's report |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +<pre> |
| 81 | +I have no organization-specific announcements or notices at this time. Please |
| 82 | +excuse any delays in having up-to-date minutes, and thank you to the others at |
| 83 | +SPI who have been helping with that. |
| 84 | +</pre> |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +## Vote On Minutes For Previous Meetings |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +### Vote on minutes for meeting Monday April 14 2025 |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +No vote was held as provisional minutes were not yet published. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +### Vote on minutes for meeting Monday May 12 2025 |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +No vote was held as provisional minutes were not yet published. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +### Vote on minutes for meeting Monday June 9 2025 |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | +No vote was held as provisional minutes were not yet published. |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +## Items up for discussion |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +### Vote for Resolution 2025-07-14.js.1: Accept Libreboot as an SPI associated project |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | +<table> |
| 109 | + <tr><td>Michael Schultheiss</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--schultmc--> |
| 110 | + <tr><td>Zach van Rijn</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zv--> |
| 111 | + <tr><td>Forrest Fleming</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fsf--> |
| 112 | + <tr><td>Joe Conway</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--jconway--> |
| 113 | + <tr><td>Héctor Orón Martínez</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zumbi--> |
| 114 | + <tr><td>Jeremy Stanley</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fungi--> |
| 115 | + <tr><td>Jonatas Luis Nogueira</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--Jesusalva--> |
| 116 | + <tr><td>Katie McMillan</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--mappx--> |
| 117 | +</table> |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +Vote passed with 8 yes, 0 abstain, 0 no. |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | + |
| 122 | +### Vote for Approve of bylaws amendment proposal to be delivered to membership |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | +<table> |
| 125 | + <tr><td>Jeremy Stanley</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fungi--> |
| 126 | + <tr><td>Michael Schultheiss</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--schultmc--> |
| 127 | + <tr><td>Joe Conway</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--jconway--> |
| 128 | + <tr><td>Zach van Rijn</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zv--> |
| 129 | + <tr><td>Forrest Fleming</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fsf--> |
| 130 | + <tr><td>Katie McMillan</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--mappx--> |
| 131 | + <tr><td>Milan Kupcevic</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--milan--> |
| 132 | + <tr><td>Jonatas Luis Nogueira</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--Jesusalva--> |
| 133 | + <tr><td>Héctor Orón Martínez</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zumbi--> |
| 134 | +</table> |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | +Vote passed with 9 yes, 0 abstain, 0 no. |
| 137 | + |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | +### Question regarding arbitration clauses |
| 140 | + |
| 141 | +* Brief discussion on the importance of arbitration clauses led to consensus |
| 142 | + the board should seek input from counsel on having a general policy. |
| 143 | + |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | +### Question about MinGW being unreachable |
| 146 | + |
| 147 | +* It was noted that this question, while previously raised, was resolved prior |
| 148 | + to the meeting. |
| 149 | + |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +### Vote for Resolution 2025-07-14.zv.1: Accept Synthea as an SPI associated project |
| 152 | + |
| 153 | +<table> |
| 154 | + <tr><td>Jeremy Stanley</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fungi--> |
| 155 | + <tr><td>Forrest Fleming</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--fsf--> |
| 156 | + <tr><td>Michael Schultheiss</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--schultmc--> |
| 157 | + <tr><td>Zach van Rijn</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zv--> |
| 158 | + <tr><td>Katie McMillan</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--mappx--> |
| 159 | + <tr><td>Héctor Orón Martínez</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--zumbi--> |
| 160 | + <tr><td>Joe Conway</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--jconway--> |
| 161 | + <tr><td>Milan Kupcevic</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--milan--> |
| 162 | + <tr><td>Jonatas Luis Nogueira</td><td>Yes</td></tr><!--Jesusalva--> |
| 163 | +</table> |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +Vote passed with 9 yes, 0 abstain, 0 no. |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | + |
| 168 | +## Other business |
| 169 | + |
| 170 | +* None |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | +## Adjournment |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +The meeting was adjourned until Monday August 11th, 2025 at 20:00 UTC |
| 176 | +in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org. |
| 177 | + |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +## Appendix A: Current Board Membership |
| 180 | + |
| 181 | +<table> |
| 182 | +<thead> |
| 183 | +<tr><th>Last elected</th><th>Name</th><th>Role</th></tr> |
| 184 | +</thead> |
| 185 | +<tbody> |
| 186 | +<tr><td>July 2024</td><td>Michael Schultheiss</td><td>President</td></tr> |
| 187 | +<tr><td>July 2022</td><td>Jonatas Luis Nogueira</td><td>Vice President</td></tr> |
| 188 | +<tr><td>July 2022</td><td>Héctor Orón Martínez</td><td>Treasurer</td></tr> |
| 189 | +<tr><td>July 2022</td><td>Zach van Rijn</td><td>Secretary</td></tr> |
| 190 | +<tr><td>July 2023</td><td>Joe Conway</td></tr> |
| 191 | +<tr><td>July 2022</td><td>Forrest Fleming</td></tr> |
| 192 | +<tr><td>July 2024</td><td>Milan Kupcevic</td></tr> |
| 193 | +<tr><td>July 2024</td><td>Katie McMillan</td></tr> |
| 194 | +<tr><td>July 2022</td><td>Jeremy Stanley</td></tr> |
| 195 | +</tbody> |
| 196 | +</table> |
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