Date and time:
- 2026-08-08 20:00 US Eastern Daylight Time
Election of Board Members and Officers:
- Re-elect current slate of directors, assuming no one wants changes
- Re-elect current slate of officers, assuming no one wants changes
Treasurer’s Report:
2025
Opening balance 2025-01-01:
- Checking account: $1,262.66
- PayPal: $137.31
- Fidelity Investment account: $18802.52
- Total: $20,202.49
Expenses:
- Domain Renewals: $198.30
- Legal Fees (trademark inquiry): $2450.00
- $2,000 transferred from Investment Account to cover this expense.
- Total Expenses: $2,648.90
Income:
- Investment Dividends: $718.10
- Donations through Paypal: $155.60
- Paypal Giving Fund: $323.88
- Total Income: $1,197.58
Net Loss: ($1451.32)
Closing Balance 2025-12-31:
- Checking Account: $1,082.26
- Paypal: $148.89
- Fidelity Investment Account: $17,520.62
- Total: $18,751.77
2026
Opening Balance 2026-01-01:
- Checking Account: $1,082.26
- Paypal: $148.89
- Fidelity Investment Account: $17,520.62
- Total: $18,751.77
Expenses:
- Domain Renewals: $139.76
- Total: $139.76
Income:
- Donations via PayPal: $30.38
- Paypal Giving Fund: $314.39
- Investment Dividends: #338.45
- Spreadshirt: $26.00
- Total: $709.22
Net Income: $569.46
Current Balances:
- Checking Account: $1,108.26
- Fidelity Investment Account: $17,859.07
- Paypal: $353.90
- Total: $19,321.23
Items to address/Old Business:
- Registered Agent - need to change to something cheaper than CT Corp/Wolters Kluwer as it’s now just about $200 per year to keep using the current agent.
- Matthew was going to verify that Mark Doliner was successfully removed from the PayPal account.
- Some work on security.imfreedom.org which is meant to become the basis for everything of applying to be a CNA. Open and public issues are visible here.
- Spreadshirt was complaining about our name not matching, Matthew was going to look at this.
- Matthew was going to look at opening an EU spreadshirt shop. There was some discussion about this somewhere but I can’t seem to find it right now.
- We were going to reach out to Pamela Chestek about registering Adium and possibly Pidgin trademarks, but none of this happened yet.
New Business:
- Gary has decided to just do minutes and audio for the board meeting. The video wasn’t really necessary and is one less thing that needs to be done.
- Gary is retiring the State of the Bird posts for now. He’s 3 months behind now, no one has asked for one, and the quarterly releases seem to be filling the gap.
- Gary has reached out to the operators of logon.chat and chivanet which are community ran instances of Open Oscar Server to see if there’s anything he or IMfreedom could do to help them. These are, to his knowledge, very light weight machines so hosting costs shouldn’t be much or something like that.