FHISO Board Meeting held 18 June 2019 at 1730 UTC

The meeting was held by private Google hangout, started at 1730 UTC

Present: Luther Tychonievich — Technical Coordinator & Chair; Roger Moffat — Secretary & Treasurer; Andrew Hatchett — Membership Coordinator; Richard Smith — Technical Co-Coordinator

Absent: Tony Proctor — Vice Chair; Drew Smith, Brett McPhee & Greg Lamberson — Directors at Large

  1. Minutes of the previous meeting. The minutes of the previous meeting were amended as suggested and then approved, and published.
  2. Elections: Andy has compiled our various mailing lists into a single list of 538 addresses for mailing and discussed other methods of reaching people to let them know about upcoming elections.
  3. Finances:
    1. PayPal Balance at 18 June 2019 = $443.11
    2. Bank of America Balance at 18 June 2019 = $775.19
    3. Since 30 May we have received 9 Dues payments, 2 small donations and 2 donations of $250 each.
    4. We will send $750 to Caritas to pay for them to complete the work on making FHISO a 501(c)(3) organisation.
  4. Membership: Renewal notices were sent out, and so far 10 members have renewed
  5. Technical Work: Richard has been working on Sections 3 & 4 of ELF Serialisation. Section 3 is close to being completed.
  6. Overview of plan for 2019:
    1. Write annual report for the members — done
    2. Membership renewals — see above
    3. Bylaws for smaller board structure — done
    4. Progress ELF — defer until we have time
    5. Board elections — we hoped to solicit nominations in June
    6. Federal tax status and 501(c)(3) status — in progress with Caritas
  • Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on 25 July 2019 at 1830 UTC (1430 EDT)

The meeting closed at 1825 UTC (1425 EDT)