http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1179 <pre>Hi all. FFmpeg has applied to become an SPI Associated project. Comments and questions are welcome. I support and am sponsoring this application because: * FFmpeg is a genuine Free Software community project: FFmpeg is released under the GPL or LGPL licenses depending on the choice of configuration options. * FFmpeg has an established development community and history of software releases. The initial release of FFmpeg was in December 2000 and the project continues to be actively developed. * FFmpeg is used by a broad audience: FFmpeg is widely used on Linux, Microsoft Windows and many other operating systems both as a standalone tool and as part of other applications. The resolution below is proposed to be submitted to the June 14 board meeting: SPI resolution 2012-05-25.rtb.1 WHEREAS 1. FFmpeg is a substantial and significant Free Software project. 2. The FFmpeg developers would like SPI's support and assistance, including taking Donations, Holding Funds and legal assistance. THE SPI B</pre> Robert Brockway 2012-05-24T13:00:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1178 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period April 01, 2012 - April 30, 2012 Income Ordinary Income Arch Linux 360.00 DebConf 12 5,110.00 Debian 3,803.50 Drizzle 150.00 FreeDesktop.org 27,000.00 Gallery 50.00 Jenkins 100.00 LibreOffice 110.00 PostgreSQL 500.00 Privoxy 25.00 SPI General 205.76 SPI 5% 271.80 The HeliOS Project 200.00 YafaRay Code Sprint 127.50 YafaR</pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-05-17T17:38:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1174 <pre>Hi all. SPI is investigating options for Directors and Officers insurance. I'm interested in any recommendations for insurance companies, brokers or other organisaations who offer D&amp;O insurance packages suitable for US not-for-profit corporations. Please feel free to provide recommendations in reply to this email or via private email if you prefer. Here are a couple of recommendations I have already: Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York http://www.npccny.org/info/oi2.htm Using NPCC's insurance requires being a member of the organisation. Membership would cost no more than $250 and seems to provide affordable D&amp;O insurance for members. The Weiner Company http://www.weinerco.com/ A similar FOSS foundation went through this company and were apparently happy with the result. I will be getting pricing for D&amp;O insurance and presenting it for discussion. Cheers, Rob </pre> Robert Brockway 2012-04-22T02:30:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1165 <pre>Watch out for the move to 17th May for next meeting and the call for help with the PHP membership management system. Share and enjoy! HIGHLIGHTS 21:01:06 &lt;bdale&gt; *GAVEL* 21:01:06 &lt;bdale&gt; [item 1, Opening] Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/agendas/2012/2012-04-12/ [item 2, Roll Call] 21:01:17 &lt;Noodles&gt; Jonathan McDowell 21:01:17 &lt;Clint&gt; Clint Adams 21:01:18 &lt;zobel&gt; Martin Zobel-Helas 21:01:19 &lt;Hydroxide&gt; Jimmy Kaplowitz 21:01:21 &lt;bdale&gt; Bdale Garbee 21:01:21 &lt;Ganneff&gt; Joerg Jaspert 21:01:24 &lt;Solver&gt; Robert Brockway 21:01:26 &lt;schultmc&gt; Michael Schultheiss [item 3, President's Report] 21:02:21 &lt;bdale&gt; My apologies to the board for my absence from our last meeting, I suffered an unanticipated airline flight delay that day. [item 4, Treasurer's Report] 21:02:34 &lt;schultmc&gt; standard report was mailed out and is in the agenda.</pre> MJ Ray 2012-04-13T09:14:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1163 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period March 01, 2012 - March 31, 2012 Income Ordinary Income Arch Linux 518.94 DebConf 11 270.00 Debian 21,965.41 Drizzle 100.00 FreeDesktop.org 25.00 Gallery 105.00 LibreOffice 141.00 PostgreSQL 861.00 SPI General 100.00 SPI 5% 212.87 The HeliOS Project 1,440.00 YafaRay Code Sprint 256.00 YafaRay 15.00 Total Ordinary Income 26,010.22 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-04-12T06:00:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1162 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period March 01, 2012 - March 31, 2012 Income Ordinary Income Arch Linux 518.94 DebConf 11 270.00 Debian 21,965.41 Drizzle 100.00 FreeDesktop.org 25.00 Gallery 105.00 LibreOffice 141.00 PostgreSQL 861.00 SPI General 100.00 SPI 5% 212.87 The HeliOS Project 1,440.00 YafaRay Code Sprint 256.00 YafaRay 15.00 Total Ordinary Income 26,010.22 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-04-12T03:26:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1155 <pre>Hi all. There was a discussion recently on #SPI about using a tracking system to help SPI keep track of tasks. The general concensus during the discussion was that Request Tracker (RT) was the preferred option as several of the people present (mostly board members) have quite a bit of experience with RT. I'd certainly like us to go forward with this as soon as possible. As well as assisting with tracking tasks it could help us set &amp; monitor SLAs. Jonathan, please put "Discussion of tracking system" on the agenda for the April 12/13 board meeting. This will be a good opportunity to get the board talking about it. I'd hope we get a general concensus and decision to implement. Cheers, Rob </pre> Robert Brockway 2012-04-10T04:24:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1154 <pre>Hi there I am the liason of the YafaRay project. In the past we asked the board whether we could sell training and educative material under the umbrella of SPI, since donations does not work that great for us. In light of the advice you got from your legal advisors about performing such activities, and given the fact that we are on track about finishing such educative stuff, we would like to ask the board again whether such activities could be launched under SPI protection, and what should be the desired framework. We are going to finish a book into spanish in PDF format (10 MG) and a training DVD-ISO file with scenes and texts in PDF format (3 GB). We are not going to sell physical items, just digital books and DVD-ISO files. Every item will be released under a creative commons license, following Blender Foundation model. We look forward to the board answer on these regards. Greetings. Alvaro Luna Bautista The YafaRay Project _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi</pre> Alvaro Luna Bautista 2012-04-08T19:09:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1153 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period February 01, 2012 - February 29, 2012 Income Ordinary Income aptosid 5.00 Arch Linux 555.00 Debian 1,000.00 Drizzle 700.00 FreeDesktop.org 10.00 FreedomBox 115.65 Gallery 140.00 GNU TeXmacs 99.90 LibreOffice 156.00 madwifi-project.org 1.00 PostgreSQL 10.00 SPI General 2,881.00 SPI 5% 147.13 The HeliOS Project 25.00 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-03-08T20:55:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1150 <pre>As per 2009-11-04.jmd.1 (Contributing membership expiry) I'm preparing to send out an initial ping to all contributing members who did not vote in the last board election. That covers 378 individuals. In an ideal world we'd have the SPI members app provide an "I'm still active" button as a response, but for this first pass I think it's going to be easier to script a bunch of mails and then process responses manually. How about the following as the ping mail: ----- Subject: SPI contributing membership ping SPI membership ref: [n] Hi. As per SPI resolution 2009-11-04.jmd.1 (Contributing membership expiry)[0] we are in the process of cleaning up the SPI active membership list. Our records indicate that you did not vote in the SPI Board Election held in July 2011. We use board election turnout as an indicator of SPI activit. As a result if we do not hear otherwise from you within 4 weeks of this mail being sent we will deem you inactive and downgrade your SPI membership to non-contributing status. Please n</pre> Jonathan McDowell 2012-03-01T04:35:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1149 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period January 01, 2012 - January 31, 2012 Income Ordinary Income Arch Linux 367.00 Debian 2,155.00 Drizzle 150.00 Haskell 13,001.22 Jenkins 175.00 LibreOffice 60.00 madwifi-project.org 20.00 OpenWrt 550.00 PostgreSQL 50.00 SPI General 5,780.29 SPI 5% 197.10 The HeliOS Project 395.00 YafaRay 20.00 Total Ordinary Income 22,905.96 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-02-09T20:57:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1144 <pre>I've been reading the 2010 form 990 for SPI (from guidestar) and noticed that you claim that your forms (990, 1023, etc) are available on the SPI web site. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, they aren't. Could you consider creating a page under http://spi-inc.org/corporate/ with those forms? While searching on the SPI web site, I found an IRC log from 2008 indicating that someone requested the 1023 and that Michael Schultheiss was going to request a copy from the IRS. I also found one 990 on the old SPI page [1] but I couldn't find all. It would be great if you could create one central location on the new web site with these forms. Thanks a lot. [1] http://oldwww.spi-inc.org/treasurer/soft0208.pdf.1 </pre> Martin Michlmayr 2012-02-09T07:43:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1134 <pre>Jonathan, please add the item "Discussion of back office support" to the February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within general business but don't mind if you put it in another category. My intention here is for the board to discuss this topic, not to make any firm decisions during this board meeting. There is no need to post any of the material below in to the meeting announcement. CC:ed to spi-general so the community can discuss. There have been informal discussions within SPI for a while about acquiring assistance for the day to day operations of SPI to improve service delivery to projects. This is especially important considering that the number of associated projects has been increasing recently and all indications are that this is going to continue. Two possible approaches to obtaining back office support are discussed here. This discussion does not exclude the possibility that other options exist. (1) Using a back office company Numerous companies (in the US and elsewh</pre> Robert Brockway 2012-02-05T01:56:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1132 <pre>Hi all. I find it slightly annoying that the index page requires the person to click 'Read more' to see much information. I propose merging the 'About' page in to the Index (Home) page and having it readable without having to click 'Read more'. Normally I wouldn't bother posting about changes to the website but this is fairly significant and involves the index so be sure to hollar if you disagree. I also plan to add a 'History' page. Cheers, Rob </pre> Robert Brockway 2012-01-13T09:07:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1131 <pre>Following discussions with legal counsel and the contributing members over the last couple of months the board agreed today to alter the criteria for board list membership. The board list is now comprised of board members only. Legal counsel and project liaisons will be CC:ed on board list discussions as required. As a result of this change more discussion will shift to spi-general and spi-private. Thanks, Rob </pre> Robert Brockway 2012-01-12T22:22:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1130 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period December 01, 2011 - December 31, 2011 Income Ordinary Income Arch Linux 1,105.00 DebConf 11 10.00 Debian 9,996.42 Drizzle 100.00 Fluxbox 1,669.85 freedesktop.org 225.00 Gallery 60.00 Jenkins 8,666.10 LibreOffice 27,365.00 madwifi-project.org 25.00 OpenOffice.org 245.00 OpenWrt 20.00 PostgreSQL 4,620.00 Privoxy 100.00 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2012-01-12T19:01:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1129 <pre>I'd like to welcome haskell.org (our newest associated project) to SPI. http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/haskell/ I'd encourage active Haskell.org contributors to apply for contributing membership so that they can play an active role within SPI. Cheers, Rob </pre> Robert Brockway 2011-12-30T04:13:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1123 <pre>Hi there I'm the liason of the YafaRay project. Our project is rather small although we have a relatively broad user base. We are doing about 7.000 downloads a month. However, the fact is that donations does not work for us. it is more dificult for desktop software to get support from the big guys. This is not a big issue for a project with small needs, but our project faces now critical times and we would like to organise a first "code sprint" to get together and strengthen our bonds. Selling training material would be an option for us. We are not sure whether is going to work but at least we would like to try. We would like to ask whether we can still use SPI protection for the money raised by those sales and how to accommodate a checkout process from an e-shop within the current "click &amp; pledge" framework. I don't believe it can be done. For instance, can we use Amazon Payments or Paypal under our responsabily but draw funds from those and get them directly to our SPI account? Thank you for your </pre> Alvaro Luna Bautista 2011-12-20T09:57:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1122 <pre>TIMED LOG: [item 1, Opening] &lt;Ganneff&gt; Welcome to today's Software in the Public Interest board of directors meeting, which is now called to order. Today's agenda and details of pending resolutions can be found on the web at: http://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/agendas/2011/2011-12-15/ [item 2, Roll Call] 21:00:11 &lt;Clint&gt; Clint Adams 21:00:11 &lt;schultmc&gt; Michael Schultheiss 21:00:15 &lt;Ganneff&gt; Joerg Jaspert 21:00:16 &lt;Solver&gt; Robert Brockway 21:00:16 &lt;Noodles&gt; Jonathan McDowell 21:00:17 &lt;zobel&gt; Martin Zobel-Helas 21:02:50 &lt;Hydroxide&gt; Jimmy Kaplowitz [item 3, President's Report] &lt;Ganneff&gt; Agenda looks like there is none, and Bdale is out anyways, so next [item 4, Treasurer's Report] &lt;schultmc&gt; Standard report is in the agenda - nothing further to report [item 5, Secretary's report] &lt;Noodles&gt; Nothing from me. [item 6, Outstanding minutes] voting results for "Minutes for Wednesday, 9th November 2011": Yes: 6, Abstain: 1 [item 7, Stuff for discussion] voting results for "Resolution 2011-12-11.rtb.1 (Haskell.or</pre> MJ Ray 2011-12-16T12:07:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1121 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period November 01, 2011 - November 30, 2011 Income Ordinary Income aptosid 16.00 Arch Linux 289.00 DebConf 11 10.00 Debian 672.00 freedesktop.org 10.00 FreedomBox Foundation 20,000.00 Gallery 100.00 GNU TeXmacs 10.00 LibreOffice 3,027.00 PostgreSQL 217.00 SPI General 297.00 SPI 5% 239.50 The HeliOS Project 433.95 Yafaray 5.00 </pre> Michael Schultheiss 2011-12-15T05:56:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/1119 <pre>This report uses a cash-based method of accounting, recording donations when deposited (not when the check was written or received by us) and recording expenses when sent or scheduled for payment (not when incurred). Income Statement for the Period October 01, 2011 - October 31, 2011 Income Ordinary Income aptosid 15.00 Debian 385.00 freedesktop.org 10.00 Gallery 20.00 Jenkins 130.00 OpenOffice.org 190.00 OpenWrt 30.00 PostgreSQL 3,156.62 Privoxy 10.00 SPI General 75.00 SPI 5% 41.50 The HeliOS Project 125.00 Total Ordinary Income 4,188.12 -------- Inte</pre> Michael Schultheiss 2011-11-09T21:02:14 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.spi.general