IM Freedom Board Meeting 2024-09-14 00:00 UTC using Google Meet. All times listed below are in UTC.
- Preamble and call to order at 00:15 UTC.
- Directors present:
- John Bailey, President/Treasurer
- Matthew Needham, Vice President
- Gary Kramlich, Secretary
- Ethan Blanton, Director
- Richard Laager, Director
- Others present:
- Patrick Cloke
- Treasurer’s Report
- Opening balance on January 1, 2023 was $24,414.41.
- Total expenses were $4989.38, consisting of:
- Development, $4,000
- Fees, $125.50
- Representation, $731.50
- Total income was $595.38, consisting of:
- Amazon Smile, $67.71 (Amazon Smile is permanently gone, we won’t receive this anymore)
- Dividends from the Fidelity investment account, $486.08
- Donations, $23.73
- Interest, $1.84
- Spreadshirt, $16.02
- Closing balance on December 31, 2023 was $20,049.94. This is a net loss of $4,364.47.
- Opening balance on January 1, 2024 was $20,049.94.
- Total expenses so far are $90, all of it fees.
- Total income so far is $243.53, consisting of:
- Spreadshirt, $37.70
- Donations, $180.83 (John reimbursing for fees he caused)
- Current balance today is $20,203.47, a net gain of $153.53.
- Note that $90 of the fees in 2023 and all of the fees in 2024 were my fault due to letting the savings account fall below a balance threshold. The bank charges $15/month for savings accounts that fall below the threshold.
- Gary makes a motion to accept the treasure’s report as read.
- Ethan seconds
- Passes unanimously
- Officer Election
- Ethan proposes that we vote as a slate to retain our current officers.
- Richard seconds.
- Passes unanimously
- Board Member Election
- Ethan Moves to elect the six directors: John Bailey, Gary Kramlich, Richard Laager, Kneedham Matthew, Ethan Blanton, and Peter Lawler.
- Richard seconds
- Passes unanimously
- Matthew motions to add Patrick Cloke as a director.
- Gary and Ethan second.
- Passes unanimously
- Old Business
- Ethan mentions that John paid some fee out of pocket via donations.
- Ethan moves to refund Johns 180 USD donation
- Gary Seconds.
- Passes unanimously
- New Business
- Richard moves to have Gary close the savings account and move the money to checking account.
- Ethan seconds
- Passes unanimously
- Gary ask for reimbursement for the Hardware Security Module containing a new code signing certificate private key which cost 666.56 USD.
- Ethan moves to reimburse Gary for 666.56 USD for the signing key.
- Matthew seconds
- Passes unanimously with Gary abstaining
- John to look at changing registered agents.
- He will put an appointment on his calendar and we will discuss offline.
- Gary asks for interest on becoming a CVE Numbering Authority.
- Richard and Ethan express interest
- Ethan mentions we need to determine what the obligations are and make sure that we’re comfortable with them.
- Gary mentions that we could handle CVE’s for other open source chat projects.
- Patrick mentions that GitHub does have a CVE process for projects on GitHub.
- Ethan mentions seeing if we can find someone that would be open to handling CVEs for chat applications. Perhaps Signal.
- John mentions that we will follow up on the CNA proposal once the additional information has been acquired, either via email or a special board meeting.
- Adjournment
- Ethan motions
- Gary seconds
- Passes unanimously
- Meeting adjourned at 01:23 UTC