2008

In 2008 the SFI board will try to make all meeting minutes available on a regular basis.

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 4 May 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 29 March 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 8 March 2008

• No meeting 1 March 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 16 February 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 2 February 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 19 January 2008

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 5 January 2008

2007

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 3rd November 2007

• Meeting for SFI: 1200UTC, 23rd June 2007

Meeting for SFI: Face to Face, 28th Feb - 2nd Mar 2007

• Day One of the F2F

• Day Two of the F2F

• Day Three of the F2F

2006

Meeting for SFI: 1900UTC, 10 September 2006

• Previous meeting transcript

• Previous meeting summary

• Sponsorship update
  1. IBM - check received
• Competition
• Late teams registration update: Robert has been doing a great job of replying to late team registrations and we need to make a last ditch effort to get them all onto the registration page (as late registrants) so that we know how many teams participated in total.
• Announcements

Meeting for SFI: 1900UTC, 27 August 2006

• This meeting's transcript

• This meeting's summary

• Sponsored goods (and final allocation spreadsheet)

  1. T-shirt & balloon dispatch update

  2. CD dispatch update
• Finances
• Press releases and how to get them in the press
• FSF participation update

Meeting for SFI: xxxxUTC, 20 August 2006

• Previous meeting transcript

• This meeting's transcript

• Meeting summary

• Sponsorship update
  1. IBM - check ready to send
  2. Canonical
  3. DKUUG
• T-shirt ordering status
• Balloon ordering status
• Supplies allocation status
  1. 20 free shirts for packing party?
• media and marketing
  1. press releases
     1. "Who is SFI" page on wiki - done?
  2. community releases
  3. how can we get the community talking
  4. Radio drive for the 16th
• Infrastructure Roadmap
• Competition
  1. Review Robert's Rules
• Sponsorship and Policy - complete?
• Future planning
  1. UN recognition for '07? (Pia)
  2. French/Spanish/etc board members?
  3. FSF offer of participation

Meeting for SFI: 1900UTC, July 30th, 2006

* Meeting transcript

Previous meeting transcript

1. Election of Robert Schumann to the board of directors
2. Acceptance of Henrik's resignation as president
3. Election of new president of the board of directors
4. Sponsorship update
5. T-shirt ordering
6. Balloon ordering
7. Supplies allocation status
8. media and marketing
   1. press releases
      1. "Who is SFI" page on wiki
   2. community releases
   3. how can we get the community talking
   4. new idea from Pia - UN recognition for '07?
9. Infrastructure Roadmap
   1. further discussion of infrastructure roadmap deferred
10. Competition
    1. Review Robert's Rules

11. Sponsorship and Policy

Meeting for SFI: 1900UTC, July 23rd, 2006

• Previous meeting transcript

• Sponsorship update
• Community message and update
  1. # of teams registered - 171 (dups not removed)

     1. Robert will evaluate requests and divvy up 15k CDs, 500 shirts, and 1000 balloons. (We'll jiggle those numbers later as we know how many supplies we'll really have.) The board (probably Matt and Pia?) will review Upload new attachment "registeredteams.ods".

  2. team issues that need dealing
• media and marketing
  1. press releases
     1. "Who is SFI" page on wiki - Robert will do this, but needs info from board members. Matt will send the info he already has to get started.
  2. community releases
     1. Matt will write T-C announcement about request evaluations
  3. how can we get the community talking
  4. new idea from Pia - UN recognition for '07?
• Schwag
  1. t-shirts
  2. balloons
  3. CDs
• Infrastructure Roadmap
  1. Robert will point sf-day.org DNS to website, and change parana to serve the wiki appropriately [done]
  2. further discussion of infrastructure roadmap deferred
• Competition

  1. Robert (go, Robert!) will put together a list of proposed competition rules (please comment) and a wiki page that breaks down the tasks and deadlines for each competition.

Meeting for SFI, July 9, 2006

• Previous meeting transcript

• Competition(s)
• Sponsorship registrations, status
• Sponsorship future - who?

Meeting for SFI, June 4, 2006

• Previous meeting transcript

• update from Matt & Henrik on website, email lists, sponsorship request infrastructure (Minor point -- does the new info@ handling work?)

  • Mailing list changes - how about one "team-contacts" list for announcements by us only, and several 'discuss' lists (discuss (english), discuss-es, etc.)?
• update from Pia on sponsorship for prizes and t-shirts
  • t-shirt selling: yes or no
• '06 logo
  • our t-shirts can have as many colors as we want (if we go with the same vendor as 2005, t-shirts.com)
• develop beneficial contests so we can award prizes

Meeting for SFI, May 14, 2006

• Meeting transcript

• '06 logo
• develop beneficial contests so we can award prizes

Meeting agenda for SFI, April 30, 2006

• Meeting transcript

• Updates on SFD2006 progress (IBM and other sponsorships, logo...)
• "Release schedule" for SFD2006
  1. team sponsorship request period
  2. develop beneficial contest so we can award prizes

Meeting for SFI, Jan. 22, 2006

1. SFDCD2006 Establish date for SFD '06 (and onward): Sept. 16, 3rd Saturday in September?

2. FocusAreas Dedicate some board members to each of 5 FocusAreas as outlined by Pia. Think about which area(s) you want to work on!

3. Re-sending t-shirts to Joe -- small expense
4. How we can empower teams better to help them do the on the ground stuff (such as media), and what else can we give them to make SFD a local success globally?

5. How can we engage volunteers to ensure at a global organisation level the work done by the core team (namely us is expandable without having to expand the ctte unnecessarily in the future? We need to look at strategies to engage volunteers to help out in the logistics.

Meeting for SFI, Jan. 8, 2006

1. Ways to perpetuate SFI/SFD activity. We want to be a year-round influence. How can we best accomplish this?
2. Sponsorship solicitation.
3. Press management. We need to do a better job of managing (i.e., mostly increasing) our press coverage. How should we do this, and who can make it happen?
4. How we can empower teams better to help them do the on the ground stuff (such as media), and what else can we give them to make SFD a local success globally?

5. How can we engage volunteers to ensure at a global organisation level the work done by the core team (namely us is expandable without having to expand the ctte unnecessarily in the future? We need to look at strategies to engage volunteers to help out in the logistics.

6. InfrastructureRoadmap

7. SFDCD2006

Meeting extras and ideas for Sun 8th Jan

The idea of dividing up the committee into a few people to work on each area and to engage as many volunteers on their area as they can. Just an idea to better focus our approach, our efforts and the efforts of volunteers.

1. Sponsorships and money raising ideas - management and growth

2. Community building (initiatives to pull people in to do tasks and to rally global support for the day) - getting in the community collective consciousness

3. Media and marketing - this would include creating written collateral for teams to use, looking for marketing/messaging opportunities, and tracking FLOSS events to ensure SFD presence as well as working with industyr rags

4. Schwag - giveaways and merchandise organisation and distribution to teams and useful marketing events

5. InfrastructureRoadmap -

Then we could have the website divvied up as above (which is mostly is already) and have a wiki page for each where we also engage with community people willing to help, thus spreading the work between more people more effectively and give newcomers somewhere to go to see what needs doing and what might interest them to help on.

1. Activities roadmap

2. Volunteers - for core SFD stuff. People are also encouraged to start their own local team to make SFD rocking locally, globally!