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2016 03 10: Meeting of the Provisional Board of Directors

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Meeting of the Provisional Board of Directors

Date and Location

March 10, 2016, at 20:00 UTC online at https://appear.in/aegir.coop.

Opening

The special meeting of the Aegir Cooperative Provisional Board was called to order at 20:00 (UTC) on 2016-03-10 by Christopher Gervais.

Present

  • Christopher Gervais
  • Guillaume Boudrias
  • Cameron Eagans
  • Herman van Rink
  • Nicholas Roberts
  • Colan Schwartz
  • Mathieu Lutfy

Quorum Validation:

N/A

Determination of Chairperson(s)

It was agreed that [] preside over the meeting.

Old Business

Tasks from last meeting

  • [Christopher] Send follow-up email re. coop forms [done]
  • [Christopher] Send follow-up email re. business plan [done]

Tasks for next meeting

  • [Christopher] Follow-up w/ Forest Mars re. OpenCamps (AegirCamp?)
  • [Christopher] Follow-up w/ GWU (AegirSummit?)
  • [Christopher] Follow-up will contact GovCon re. training/in-kind-sponsorship
  • [Herman, Christopher, ... ] Review http://aegirhostingsystem.com/

New Business

1. CiviCRM subscriptions

Out of the box, CiviCRM provides most of what we'll need as far as membership/subscription management goes. Some small JS is required to fix up the subscription form.

2. Aegir sites

Nicholas has built out a number of sites for Aegir:

http://aegirhostingsystem.com/ in particular should probably replace our current site. Ideally everyone could take some time to review the site.

3. Events to attend

DrupalCon New Orleans

  • Attendees: Cameron

Drupal GovCon (https://www.drupalgovcon.org/)

  • Attendees: Christopher
  • Washington, DC -- July 20-22
  • Generally speaking goverments are a good fit for Aegir's use case: lareg orgs w/ lots of small sites.

Aegir Summit/Camp

  • Attendees: Christopher
  • GWU (Washington, DC) has offered to host the summit on their Campus
  • NYCcamp (rebranding as OpenCamps -- http://opencamps.org/). Maybe an AegirCamp this year?

CiviCon Colorado 2016 https://colorado2016.civicrm.org/

  • Attendees: Mathieu L
    • CiviCRM code sprint following the event.

CiviCRM User Summit (https://civicrmusersummit.org/)

  • Attendees: Christopher
  • Washington, DC -- Sept 24-25

DrupalCon Dublin (September 26-30, Ireland)

  • Attendees: Herman

Special Projects

1. Founding of the Aegir Cooperative

Work remains to establish the coop. This includes:

  • Submit forms to register our cooperative status with the Québec Government
    • Requires:
      • Agreement on the form particulars
      • Signatures from founding members
  • Finalize Coop by-laws, req'd following acceptance of coop forms
    • Requires:
      • Further linking into Law on Cooperatives, for easy reference.
      • Further cleanup, editing and re-writing
      • Individual review by Provisional Board members
      • Review by Coop consultant (maybe)
  • Agree on business model:
    • Requires:
      • Review of financial model with coop members
  • Write business plan:
    • Requires:
      • Agreement on business model
      • Write-up of explanatory text
  • Finish building marketing site
    • Requires:
      • Some design work
      • Fleshing out text for
  • Register 'aegir.coop' domain
    • Blocked by:
      • Need to provide Gov't coop approval for registration to proceed; may be able to reserve.
  • Finish and approve public policies
    • Requires:
      • Review and adoption by board
  • Organize and hold initial General Assembly to formally adopt by-laws, elect officers, etc.
    • Blocked by:
      • Need Gov't coop approval
      • Draft by-laws should be pre-approved by members
    • Requires:
      • Time, place and agenda to be established and communicated to members in writing.
  • Start a bank account
  • ...

Closing

Next Meeting Date and Time

It was agreed to have the board meetings on Thursdays at 20:00 (UTC). Currently the location is online at https://appear.in/aegir.coop.

Thus, the next board meeting is scheduled for Thursdays, 2016-03-17, at 20:00 (UTC).

Adjournment

At 21:00, Christopher made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Herman seconded it.

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