The meeting was held by zoom.us video conference, started at 2030 UTC
Present: Luther Tychonievich — Chair; Roger Moffat — Secretary & Treasurer; Richard Smith — Technical Coordinator; Joel Cannon and Seth Taplin — Directors at Large
Absent: Dave Cannon
- Minutes of the previous meeting. The minutes of the meetings on 18 June and 25 July were amended as suggested and then approved, and published.
- Board Roles: The needed Board roles were discussed and divided between those Officers present:
- Vice-chair: Richard Smith;
- Technical co-coordinator: Seth Taplin;
- Membership Coordinator: Roger Moffat;
- Industry relations coordinator: Joel Cannon;
- TSC special member: Luther Tychonievich.
- Board handover.
- The website has been update to list the new directors, and we’ve posted an announcement welcoming the new members.
- The out-going directors (Andy Hatchett, Tony Proctor, Drew Smith, Greg Lamberson, and Brett McPhee) to be removed from the Board mailing list.
- Review of current @fhiso.org addresses: Roger will sort out the email addresses that are not used, and make sure that those that are in use are monitored by someone (Roger).
- Arizona Corporation Commission: we need to notify the Arizona Corporation Commission of the revised listing of officers and directors. Roger will do this.
- Finances:
- PayPal Balance at 2 October 2019 = $329.61
- Bank of America Balance at 2 October 2019 = $373.11
- Membership: CiviCRM shows that we have 23 individual members and 6 organisational member representatives.
- 501(c)(3) application: Richard is liaising with Caritas Law Group about this – ongoing.
- Extended Organisational Period: We’re still in the EOP, per article 24 of our our bylaws.
- Technical Work: Richard said that the TSC was working on ELF (our GEDCOM-compatible serialisation format), but that progress had been slow over the summer.
- Outreach: Luther reported on interactions with half a dozen interested parties.
- Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on 6 November 2019 at 2130 UTC (1630EST)
The meeting closed at 2205 UTC