2009-09-16
This is the proposed agenda for the Board meeting of Wednesday, September 16th, 2009, to be held at 20:00 UTC in #spi on irc.spi-inc.org.

   1. Opening
   2. Roll call
   3. President's report (Bdale Garbee)
   4. Treasurer's report (Michael Schultheiss)
   5. Secretary's report (Jimmy Kaplowitz)
   6. Outstanding minutes
         1. Jimmy's responsibility
               1. Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
   7. Items up for discussion:
         1. SPI resolution 2009-09-16.mcs.1 (Establishing an additional SPI bank account)
         2. SPI Resolution 2009-09-08.jrk.1 (Path64 as associated project)
         3. SPI Resolution 2009-09-08.jrk.2 (OSUNIX as associated project)
   8. Any other business
   9. Next board meeting October 21st, 2009, 20:00 UTC


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Secretary's report:
   Open64's invitation to join SPI lapsed without being accepted.


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2009-09-16.mcs.1:

WHEREAS

 1. SPI's deposits on hand at its current bank are approaching the limit of
    FDIC insured funds


THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

 1.  The Treasurer is authorized to open a checking account for
     Software in the Public Interest, Inc. at an additional bank to
     ensure SPI's balances are below the FDIC insurance limits.

 2.  The signatories on the account will include the following

     Michael Schultheiss        Treasurer
     James R. Kaplowitz         Director



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2009-09-08.jrk.1:

WHEREAS

 1. Path64 is a substantial and useful open source project.

 2. Path64 would like SPI's support and assistance, including taking
donations.

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

 3. Path64 is formally invited to become an SPI
Associated Project, according to the SPI Framework for Associated
Projects, SPI Resolution 1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a
copy of which can be found at
http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004-08-10-iwj.1

 4. Currently, Christopher Bergström is recognised by SPI as the current
authoritative decision maker and SPI liaison for Path64. The SPI Board
expresses its desire for Christopher Bergström to clarify the governance
structure of Path64 to the Board, which structure the Board will
recognize as it would any other instruction from an associated project.

 5. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is
approved by the SPI Board.

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2009-09-08.jrk.2:

WHEREAS

 1. OSUNIX is a substantial and useful open source project,

 2. OSUNIX would like SPI's support and assistance, including taking
donations, and

 3. OSUNIX engaged the Software Freedom Law Center separately from their
representation of SPI and obtained from them an opinion letter which
satisfactorily addresses SPI's legal concerns with regard to OSUNIX,

THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT

 4. OSUNIX is formally invited to become an SPI
Associated Project, according to the SPI Framework for Associated
Projects, SPI Resolution 1998-11-16.iwj.1-amended-2004-08-10.iwj.1, a
copy of which can be found at
http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004-08-10-iwj.1

 5. Currently, Christopher Bergström is recognised by SPI as the current
authoritative decision maker and SPI liaison for OSUNIX. The SPI Board
expresses its desire for Christopher Bergström to clarify the governance
structure of OSUNIX to the Board, which structure the Board will
recognize as it would any other instruction from an associated project.

 6. This invitation will lapse, if not accepted, 60 days after it is
approved by the SPI Board.