Board 2007 04 15

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Contents 1 FGA April 17, 2007 Board Meeting 2 Agenda: 3 Directors in Attendance: 4 Old Business: 5 New Business 6 April Goals 7 Next Board of Directors Meeting Time

FGA April 17, 2007 Board Meeting

Agenda:

• Removal of Ryan from Board
• Assign temporary Treasurer (do we need one for now?)
• Assign Ryan's tasks to other Board members

 ** Paypal/Ebay setup
 ** Hardware inventory system setup

• Committee updates
• Open discussion (what's everyone working on? what next?)

Directors in Attendance:

• Daniel
• Brad
• Steve

Old Business:

• Casey created checking account with Regions ($50.00 balance)

**Got one card for online purchases
**Set himself as signer until long term Treasurer is elected

• Casey met with FG Portland via IRC (gave update, discussed mailing lists,

discussed consensus versus Robert's Rules - per my request)

• Casey read FG wiki pages on consensus
• Received more computer equipment
• Purchased racks for temporary garage storage
• Set up info@freegeekarkansas.org (forward's to my account for now) and

added address to website

• Printed example 501(c)3 applications and started filling out our

application

New Business

• Ryan is moving to Seattle and cannot therefore continue to function as an FGA board member. Since he has not officially submitted his notice of resignation, we tabled the discussion of formally removing him from the board until next month.

• The board decided not to elect a temporary treasurer at present. Daniel or Brad can co-sign with Casey for any necessary expenditures.

• Daniel volunteered to take over Ryan's efforts at constructing an online inventory system.

• Brad volunteered to take over Ryan's efforts at setting up Paypal/Ebay accounts.

• Committee Updates - No committee updates at present.

• Building Update - No update this month.

• Board Procedures - The board discussed if Robert's Rules would be the best way to conduct FGA business or if we should instead default to consensus decision making. After some discussion, the board decided to use consensus for all issues for a set period of time. When an issue is introduced, it shall be discussed at the first meeting and at two subsequent meetings (if necessary). If the issue has not been resolved by the fourth meeting, the board shall use Robert's Rules for that one issue to keep FGA business moving forward.

• Restitution - FGA is founded on the principle of beneficial volunteerism. When someone receives a computer from FGA, they pledge a number of hours toward the organization to help build other computers, work in the thrift store, etc. Since we have no warehouse or thrift store at present, Daniel proposed that we charge a nominal fee ($25 or so) from anyone who receives a PC from us at this time. The board discussed this and accepted it as a temporary policy until store/warehouse space has been secured.

April Goals

• Establish bank, Ebay and PayPal accounts.
• Create inventory of equipment available for PC builds.
• Attend FG Portland IRC meeting
• Building shelves and cataloging all computer equipment
• Set up Free Geek Arkansas mailing lists (board, general)
• Design www.freegeekarkansas.org web page
• Begin seeking out grants to apply for (contacting UofA for help)
• Continue working on 501(c)3

Next Board of Directors Meeting Time

May 15, 2007