JavaMUG Board Meeting, Saturday, March 5, 2005
Time and Location
- 9:10 AM approximately, to 1:05 PM
- NerdBooks, Corner Meeting room
Attendance
- President: Daniel Brookshier
- Vice-president: Steve Davidson
- Secretary: Lori Wilkins
- Jim Burke – Board Member
- Glen Grimes – Board Member
- Jean Johnson – Board Member
- Guests:
- David Croft (approximately 9am – 11:00am)
- Andy Hoffman (entire meeting)
- Jim Blood (entire meeting)
- Raymond Gao (approximately 30 minutes)
- James Owen (approximately 15 minutes)
General Business
- Vice-President called the meeting to order around 9:10 AM, because the President was running a bit late.
- Received $200.00 for March sponsorship from Stephen Davidson & Associates, Inc.; deposited in to the bank account.
Agenda Items
- Vote on prior meeting minutes for February meetings.
- Minutes approved unanimously by 5 board members present (Jean, Jim, Lori, Steve, and Glen).
- Report of votes for new meeting place and logistics going forward.
- Motion to accept Sun as the official meeting place for JavaMUG was unanimous by all 6 board members present (Daniel, Steve, Glen, Jean, Jim, Lori)
- Motion for a new procedure regarding votes was unanimously accepted by all 6 board members present (Daniel, Steve, Glen, Jean, Jim, Lori).
- New procedure is:
- Votes will not be announced to membership until they have been approved by board.
- Votes will be matched against the membership list.
- Board will approve the vote.
- Vote will be announced to general membership.
- Consolidation of SIG meeting place opportunities.
- Attendees determined that this item had been addressed offline by Stephanie Smith with the SIG Group leaders.
- JavaMUG Mailing Lists.
- Board agreed in a vote of 4 for and 1 abstaining, there will be 3 lists in the future:
- JavaMUG Announcements List – moderated, announcements only
- JavaMUG Jobs List – moderated
- JavaMUG General Discussion – unmoderated
- Schedule and location of future board meetings after move to new location.
- Board agreed in a vote of 4 for and 1 abstaining, to meet at NerdBooks the first Saturday of each month, from 10am to 12:00noon.
- 2004 Financial Audit status
- Income over the Past Year
- Sponsorship status
- On-track for 2005, per Jean
- Speaker status
- On-track for 2005
- Approved a $1500 budget for 2005 for speakers' expenses
- Certificate training status
- Education committee will meet off-line and report back.
- Fund raising opportunities
- Yearly sponsorships
- Java Forum – Conference Committee to be formed to address this
- What to spend JavaMUG money on
- Supplies – yes, as always
- Emergency Pizza Funds – yes, as always
- Presentation equipment – no decision; Jean agreed to look into possible rental locations for presentation equipment for the group.
- Out of town speaker transporation/expenses – covered above in item #9
- Re-host of JavaMUG web site and email list groups – approved unanimously by the board!!
- Status of vision statement – no status update
- Web hosting change selection – approved unanimously by the board!!
- Membership Benefits
- Group buys
- Special Raffles
- Membership Cards
- Membership ID
- Resume Listing
- General discussion of the above items, but no decisions were reached.
- Sponsor benefits
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Proposals to increase Monthly Sponsorship $
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Proposals for long-term sponsorships
- General discussion, particularly about incorporation sponsorship, but no decisions
- Recognizing sponsorship status of SIG meeting places on web site
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Job listings on Javamug.org
- Web Development committee will look into this
- Resume listings on Javamug.org
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Java Job Fair (at NerdBooks)
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Increasing membership/attendance
- Membership committee and Web Development committee working on this
- Working with JUG community at Java.net
- General discussion, but no decisions
- Working with JavaLobby
- General discussion, but no decisions