Council 2006 06

• Date: June 21st, 7:15pm
• Facilitator: Stacy
• Scribe: Seamus
• Minutes Checker:
• Place: Free Geek

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Call the meeting to order

• Are the scribe and facilitator there?
• Check in - ask how everybody's doing.
• Have everybody say their name (important at Council meetings.) Scribe: note names below. (under == Attendance ==)
• You can delete this section from the minutes.

Attendance

List participants here.

Old Commitments

• Phil: train more tour guides on how to talk about monitors. CARRYOVER
• Martin: get Uganda pics posted to the web (this is a request from Pete!) IN PROGRESS
• Mark will announce a web site he's aware of about board nominations. (correction: non-profit information) CARRYOVER ++
• Stacy, Laurel, Pete, All will think about possible Board nominees, and refer them to New Director Agreement. No more carryovers allowed. CARRYOVER ++
• Martin: Convene a group to discuss blind linux distro needs assessment. CARRYOVER +INFINITY
• Martin: Convene the ambassador's group (forgotten) CARRYOVER ++
• Oso: report on how phil got hired
• Shawn: will announce next providence meeting to core, council, board
• martin: will carry over the hiring priorities proposal.
• staff: report on receiving coverage

Owner of each commitment should report on status: Done, In Progress, Carryover, Hand Off, or Drop. For items not completed, see Carryovers.

• Name - commitment - status
• Name - commitment - status
  • discussion points if necessary
• etc.

Reports

Reports from other working groups. Use headings with equal signs, like this:

=== Blahblah Report ===

If reports came via email, please link to the message in the archive here. Like this: Blahblah Report

Foobar Report

• presenter's name
• summarize and/or link to report
• record conversation

Old Business

• Internship hiring guideline proposal (martin)
• Space usage report/decision regarding process (jeff)
• Propogation of concerns (martin)
• Core program (jeff)
• Accountability (jeff)
• Board/budget report (seamus or other director)

Item 1

• presenter's name
• summarize presentation
• record conversation
  • (use asterisks, not hyphens. It translates better to wiki.)

New Business

copy from email list's agenda additions

Item 1

• presenter's name
• summarize presentation
• record conversation

New Commitments

New commitments, and Carry-Overs copied from above.

• name - commitment
• name - commitment
• etc.

Next Meeting

• Facilitator:
• Scribe:
• Minutes Checker:
• Reporters to other meetings?
• Date and time:
• Place:
• Unfinished business for the next meeting?