Council 2005 04

April 20, 2005

• Facilitator: Dave
• Scribe: Martin
• Beer Run: revphil
• Place: Free Geek meeting room
• Minutes form Mar 16, 2005

Committments from Previous Meeting

Board of Directors - CARRYOVER

• Mark started a wiki page about the future of the Board at Board_of_Directors and people should continue discussion there so we're better prepared when Board people do show up at Council meeting.

Pickups

• Update since meeting...I received an enthusiastic response from Steve Gutmann at Flexcar; he is supportive of an agreement in general, but had different ideas about the specifics. See FlexCar Deal -Pete

Envata (spelling?)- CARRYOVER

• Consensus: tech support will make us recommend them; $$ won't
• awaiting Michael Westwind's input

Tantalum research

• Martin will make a Wiki page so that other people can help out - CARRY OVER
• Michael will assist with research. Martin will post to council list.
• Blackhole folks will look into it

Program for Blind/Visually Impaired Adopters

• Wesley (Tallwes) was the one developing this proposal
• Now he needs help from somebody who can compile from source to play with other software.

Reports from Other Meeting

• Staff Reports - ask staff@freegeek.org
• Core Volunteer Reports - ask the people you see all the time at FG
• HOMESTREET (the current Collab project)
• PAWC report
• Tantalum research (PROPOSAL APPROVED: Get black hole folks on it. Report back next month)

Old Business

(from previous meeting's minutes)

• Board of Directors
  • there is a wiki page now Board_of_Directors thank you MNR
• Meta_Question
• VBC: (If there is a proposal) Phil: we want ideas about how to improve the FG space. Talk to me, Shawn, Nathan.
• Thoughts on Increasing Sales Income
• FreeGeek Space Usage

New Business

(from answers to call for agenda items)

Future Committments

(This is not a part of the meeting, but a section in the notes that the scribe write down.)

• Carryovers from above
• Committments made during this meeting

Next Meeting

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