Edinburgh, 2013

Location

Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK

October 25, 2013 at 1830 - 1930 in Harris 1.

Agenda

• Financial report
• Election of new members

Forms

• Proxy form File:Proxy instructions-oe.pdf

Attendence Record

(Proxies are in brackets)

• Marco Cavallini 'mckoan' (proxying for Eric Bénard 'ericben')
• Paul Eggleton 'bluelightning' (proxying for Andrea Adami 'ant')
• Philip Balister 'Crofton' [board member]
• Richard Purdie 'RP'
• Martin Jansa 'JaMa' (Simon Busch 'morphis')
• Denys Dmytriyenko 'denix' [board member]
• Koen Kooi 'koen' ( Khem Raj 'khem')
• Anders Darander
• Mark Hatle 'fray' (Otavio Salvador 'otavio')
• Sean Hudson 'darknighte' [board member]
• Saul Wold 'sgw'
• Stefan Schmidt
• Leon Woestenberg 'likewise' [board member]
• David Stewart
• Jefro
• Scott Garman

Non members present and elected to become members

• Jack Mitchell
• Andrea Galbusera
• Ross Burton

Non members not present but elected to become members

• Bruce Ashfield
• Ulf Samuelsson

Meeting notes

Meeting opened 18:35
Attendees Documented
Financially Summary Presented
* Euro 1731
* Taxes had to be filed, issues due to board transition
* German language issues and documents required to be at a German address. Lots of overhead
* No spending in last financial year
* No donations received either
* Setup SPI affiliation to allow for funds to be collected in and held in the US
Financial Report Approved
Discussion of possible uses for collected funds:
Things membership generally in favor of:
- travel sponsorship preferred 
- ship event box for conferences
- create additional event box for NA
- financial availability for emergency hardware
- promotion at events
Things membership generally not in favor of:
- sponsorship at events e.g. coffee breaks
Discussion about future of e.V. and whether SPI (as an example) would make sense
- nobody against dissolving e.V. in principle
- Feeling that board should investigate and consult members and come up with a proposal
Meeting Ended 19:20

Action Items

1. Board to review alternate legal structures including affiliation with foundations, e.g. Apache, Gnome, etc
2. Board to put together draft budget proposal
3. Members: Investigate opportunities for "hack fest" sponsorship (close to conferences)