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2016 04 07: Meeting of the Provisional Board of Directors

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Meeting of the Provisional Board of Directors

Date and Location

April 7, 2016, at 20:00 UTC online at https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/ergonlogic.com/aegir-co-op .

Opening

The special meeting of the Aegir Cooperative Provisional Board was called to order at 20:00 (UTC) on 2016-04-07 by Christopher.

Present

  • Herman van Rink
  • Christopher Gervais
  • Jon Pugh
  • Nicholas Roberts

Quorum Validation:

N/A

Determination of Chairperson(s)

It was agreed that Christopher preside over the meeting.

Old Business

Tasks from last meeting

New Business

Tasks for next meeting:

1. Meeting w/ Coop consultants

  • General Assemblies require in-person participation for votes to count. Hold first GA at AegirCamp?
  • Contract for their help ($600)?

2. Event participation

2.1. AegirCamp

  • No (recent) word back from Forest Mars re. AegirCamp I had a long phone conversation with Forest, and the new Nyccamp.org site is online and Aegir Summit is listed again and assigned a date I assume this means its ON... its not the Aegir Camp as requested, but whatever, its in the schedule. Forest offered me accomodation this year, but I dont have income to fly. I suggest if we do it this year we should really focus on business models and developing and growing the ecosystem. I would also suggest a sprint to work on Aegir containerization CODE http://nyccamp.org/summit/aegir-summit old summit http://2015.nyccamp.org/summit/aegir-summit

2.2. Drupal GovCon

  • Positive response from DrupalGovCon re. training. Expecting follow-up from their training coordinator. We should follow-up.

2.3. Stanford DrupalCamp

niccolo on "Global scale Drupal self-hosting" https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/diy-gpl-planet-scale-drupal-cloud talk at Stanford went well, was first in the day, so, late arrivals, small camp, maybe 100 people entire event https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bl350NkaARCUDoi8jA7G7ylIUpa_fIJL9kU4rTNwb9A/edit

DrupalCon Dublin

https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016

helmo keeps an eye on it.

3. Marketing materials

3.1. T-shirts

Order placed!

Waiting on proofs to approve.

4. Continue reviewing draft by-laws

  • TBD

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 [done]
      • Signatures from founding members [done]
  • 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 [done]
  • Write business plan:
    • Requires:
      • Agreement on business model [done]
      • Write-up of explanatory text
  • Finish building marketing site
    • Requires:
      • Some design work [WIP - theme conversion]
      • Fleshing out text for [done]
  • 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
    • These include:
      • Privacy Policy
      • Scope/terms of Service
      • Acceptable Use Policy
  • 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
  • Join the Drupal Association
  • ...

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://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/ergonlogic.com/aegir-co-op] (https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/ergonlogic.com/aegir-co-op).

Thus, the next board meeting is scheduled for Thursdays, [date], at 20:00 (UTC).

Adjournment

At 21:00, [name] made a motion to adjourn the meeting, [name] seconded it.

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