[FreeGeek] 2006-11-27 general meeting minutes

[matteo]

These are awesome minutes. I have a couple of  answers and
thoughts:

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:06:27PM -0800, sean said:
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> Free Geek Vancouver ??? General Meeting - Mon, November 27, 2006
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> Facilitator: David Repa
> Regulator: Jennifer
> Scribe: Sean Hill
> Audio: Ifny
> 
> ======================
> Glossary
> ======================
> FG ??? Free Geek
> mothership ??? Free Geek Portland
> PDX ??? Free Geek Portland
> FGV ??? Free Geek Vancouver
> distro ??? distribution ??? as in ???what Linux distro are you using????
> wiki ??? a user-editable website
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> Agenda
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> - agenda items
> - introductions
> - mothership ??? debriefing by Ifny & David, Q&A
> - incorporation
> - workgroups (webpage/listserve, publicity/fund raising/outreach,
> software/database, spaces)
> - website
> - outreach/donations
> - communications
> - action items/next meeting date
> 
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> introductions
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> - present ??? (online monikers in parentheses)
> - Sim, Aaron, Steven, Terry, Sean Moffat, Matt, Sean Brookes, Ifny,
> Scott (agent humble), Jennifer (jen virtual), Joe, Sean Hill    
> (evershade), David Repa (iamturnip), Rowan
> 
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> mothership
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  Dave, Ifny, and Jack - Thank you for takeing the time to get hands on
  experience from us. Sharing ideas and learning different points of
  view is what makes this all happen. (we learn alot about our selves as
  you learn what we do)

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> q&a
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> q. did you ask about business plan?
> a. on the wiki. David can find it and make it available

  This is a topic that we (pdx) is currentley resituating. I am unsure
  if we have documented business plan.
  http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Optimization_and_Priorities_group
 
> q. how many there as paid and inner sanctum?
> a. ~15 paid staff. ~30 volunteers at any given time. ~5 core volunteers
  
  We also have 3 types of interns. Staff Interns, There are two types:
  job experience and exploratory. Volunteer Interns, volunteers here on
  a set schedule.

> q. annual budget?
> a. not sure. Probably on wiki

  http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Financial_Overview
 
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> workgroups
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> - tools:   
>     - mailing lists
>     - meetings
>     - irc
> - Having to report to a larger forum gives incentive
> - Bylaws should be openly discussed to allow access to others outside
> the workgroup
> - PDX ??? brings overarching, controversial issues to council. Must come
> to 3 meetings total before you can block an action (expiration of
> privilege?)

  Yup there is a experation of privilages. In practice, we strive to
  meet all concerns brought befor the group. 
  
  http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Eligibility_for_Council

> - Spartacus ??? uses loose consensus ??? whoever shows up
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> software
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> - good to use what PDX has and to ???not reinvent the wheel???
> - also need to review what is available and make sure it works
> - deciding on distro
> - members: Terry, Matt, Scott, Sean Hill, Joe, David, Sean Brookes

  We are into colaberation, and this may become our greatest asset as a
  large unified Free Geek. Currentley We are using svn to cordinate our
  projects. (eg. the fgdb beeing rewritten in Ruby, some distro patches.) 

  Well, I have to get back to work. - big donations today :)

  Matteo