Board Meeting 2015-20-05
Attendees:
- Deyan Ginev,
- Frédéric Wang,
- Michael Kohlhase,
- Moritz Schubotz.
Session Chair: Frédéric Wang.
Minutes Scribe: Deyan.
Minutes
- Only the founding directors are eligible to vote for this meeting: Deyan, Frédéric and Moritz
- Vote on approving the By-laws policy
- Unanimously accepted (3 votes “yes”, 0 votes “no”)
- Vote on approving the Conflicts of interest policy
- Unanimously accepted (3 votes “yes”, 0 votes “no”)
- By-laws and CoI policies are now active
- Proceding to elect initial directors and settle terms of office. Moritz loses connection to the call
- Vote on initial directors (Deyan, Frédéric and Moritz) to have their term end on 12.31.2015
- Unanimously accepted (2 votes “yes”, 0 votes “no”)
- Moritz returns to the call
- Vote on electing Michael and Raniere as directors for a 2 year term, ending on 12.31.2016:
- Unanimously accepted (3 votes “yes”, 0 votes “no”)
- the first 5 MathML directors have been elected: Deyan, Frédéric, Michael, Moritz, Raniere
- We need to decide on a proper election cycle, to avoid any gaps in the board.
- Next meeting will be no later than 3 months from today: August 20, 2015. Date to be decided separately. Also, we should use a different application so that we have proper sound.
- Agenda suggestions for next meeting:
- Appointment of the initial Board Officers: Secretary, President, Vice-president, Treasurer
- Start dicussing bank account, paypal etc to receive donations
- tax exempt status
- agenda should be open until meeting is announced, will work on details in the coming months
- proposals welcome
- Discussion on execution plans:
- prioritize:
- prepare and publish association website
- tax exemption filing. Deyan will investigate.
- recruiting MathML affiliates in the organization (Frédéric: maybe Igalia)
- brainstorm on strategy for making the associations impressive and impactful
- also brainstorm on collecting funding for association-promoted activities. Michael: list of tasks that can be sponsored? Frédéric could organize.
- we may need a private repository and mailing list for efficient communication
- Round of congratulations on starting the association and moving forward. Congrats!