Present:

• Bill Washburn
• Dick Hardt
• David Recordon
• Martin Atkins
• Mike Jones
• Scott Kveton

Agenda

• General business
• Membership committee update - where are we on corporate board members? - Bill
• Security committee status - Bill
• Hiring committee update - Scott
• Any other additions?

General Business

Finance Update

Bill reported that we have recorded $60k in revenue for September. $10k was made in membership dues. There were $8,700 of expenses.

It was agreed that the finance report would be sent to the board mailing list.

It was also noted that given our current burn rate there is another year of cash in the bank, but the compensation for the new ED is likely to be substantially higher so we'll need to generate a higher revenue rate than in the past.

Membership Committee

Dick put forward a motion on the mailing list that we accept two new corporate board members and add Brian Kissel as an interim community board member to maintain the community majority.

It was agreed that this should be a full-board decision and so discussion was deferred to the mailing list.

Security Committee

Bill reported that Tony will be sending out a committee meeting invitation for next week.

The possibility of asking John Bradley to co-chair the security committee was raised. It was agreed that we would see how the committee gets on with a single chair first, giving the committee a timeline for getting up and running.

Hiring Commitee

Scott reported that the list has been reduced to two candidates. Compensation requirements are reasonable.

It was agreed that it would be desirable to bring both candidates to IIW for interviews.

The expected salary would be $150k + benefits, though it was noted that we would need to figure out what the benefits are since right now we don't have any employees.

Scott took on the task of organising the interviews at IIW.

Elections Committee

Mike reported that he has been working with RefreshMedia on the election software. He noted that as currently implemented the system is designed around board elections and doesn't work so well for things like spec approvals. RefreshMedia will therefore be going back to generalize things so that the voting system is more generally applicable.

Mike also reported that we should be able to use the system to do a board election this calendar year.

There was discussion about a membership drive at IIW in preparation for the elections, as well as contacting those who started to join but did not complete payment to tell them that we now have automated payment processing on the website.

OpenID Hackathon

David noted that he's trying to organise an OpenID Hackathon on the morning of the first day of IIW.