2025 Board Meeting

IMFreedom
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Date

September 6, 7 PM Eastern, 6 PM Central, or for Peter 7 September, 9 AM

Invite was sent out on 2025-08-02 and included a google meet url.

Election of Board and Officers

  • Re-elect all current board members
  • Re-elect all current officers

Old Business

  • Richard moves to have Gary close the savings account and move the money to checking account.
  • 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.

New Business

  • Gary would like to get the maximum expense without board approval bumped to $100 USD from $50 USD as domains have gone up in price and he has to do multiple transactions to stay under the $50 USD limit.
    • Also, Gary was unable to find where this is documented.
      • Actually it looks like this is documented on the voting procedure page and that the value is actually $100 not $50.
  • Mathew noticed that Mark Doliner was still listed as the Vice President in PayPal. He’s updated it but apparently it’ll take a few days to be reflected on PayPal.
  • Our spreadshirt store can’t ship to the EU, we need to open a new EU shop to support that, Gary is looking for an okay to proceed with this.
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Treasurer’s report:

Opening balance 2024-01-01:

  • Checking account: $985.38
  • Savings account: $60.09
  • PayPal: $118.39
  • Fidelity Investment account: $18,886.08
  • Total: $20,049.94

We had total expenses of $1,026.53 consisting of reimbursements to Gary and me and total income of $1,179.08 consisting of $916.44 in dividends from the investment account, $199.94 from donations, $25 from the PayPal Giving Fund, and $37.70 from Spreadshirt. This left a net income of $152.55.

Closing balance on 2024-12-31:

  • Checking account: $1,262.66
  • Savings account closed, $0.00
  • PayPal: $137.31
  • Fidelity Investment account: $18802.52
  • Total: $20,202.49

Opening balance 2025-01-10:

  • Checking account: $1,262.66
  • PayPal: $137.31
  • Fidelity Investment account: $18802.52
  • Total: $20,202.49

Thus far we have had expenses of $2,608.32. $2,450 of this is to the lawyer for the trademark question and search, and the remainder is for domain renewals. We have had income of $829.16, consisting of $438.55 in dividends from the investment account, $309.79 from the PayPal Giving Fund, and $80.82 from donations via PayPal. Our net loss thus far this year is $1,779.16.

Current balances:

  • Checking account: $1,082.26
  • Paypal: $100.00
  • Fidelity Investment account: $17,241.07
  • Total: $18,423.33

We have not had any income from Spreadshirt for over a year, because apparently our form W-9 on file with them expired or something. Gary has been working on getting that resolved.