Committee Meeting 2011-10-23

The meeting will take place at 21:00 UTC in the IRC channel #board-meeting on the CAcert IRC network.

Committee Members: feel free to add a business within the acceptance period or your question to the board below. Others: add a question to the questions section.

Premeeting

  1. Minutes author prepares the minutes from the last meeting

  2. Minutes author prepares the action items. All action owners to update.

  3. Minutes author puts motion m20101023.1 to accept the minutes

Agenda

  1. Preliminaries
    1. Chair opens the Committee Meeting

    2. Accept the minutes from the last meeting.

    3. Who is making minutes?

    4. Chair asks whether cacert-board-private maillist includes any items that need to be disclosed to Members.

    5. Chair introduces the URL of action items to the meeting, and asks for discussion.

  2. Businesses Important Note: Acceptance of Businesses 48 Hours before beginning of Committee Meeting latest!

    1. Infrastructure Hosting (Mario)

  3. Question Time Important Note: Questions from CAcert.org Community Members can be added until beginning of Committee Meeting! As well questions can be asked at "Question Time", without added Question here

    1. Question One added by Your Name Comment: Replace "Question One" by Your Question and add your Name

      • et cetera
  4. Closing

    1. Confirm the next Committee Meeting: Usually every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month 21:00 UTC.

    2. Chair closes the Committee Meeting

Minutes

1 Preliminaries

Present: Alexander, Dirk, Lambert, Piers.

1.1 Open

Meeting chaired by Lambert

1.2 Last Meeting Minutes

Motion to accept the minutes from the last meeting carried.

1.3 Minutes taker

Piers to take minutes.

1.4 Board Private issues

None.

1.5 Action Items

Audit

Delayed to focus on other items.

Board report

Lambert very busy but will try to do it soon.

Mario not present so skipped.

Advertising

Lambert and Dirk have attempted contact, but without success so far.

2 Business

2.1 Infrastructure

Deferred to next meeting.

3 Questions

3.1 Advertising

Disk suggests using alternate affiliate programs for advertising revenue. Allow members to access some web services via CAcert links (eg: Amazon bookstore / booking.com) thus generating revenue for CAcert on a frequent basis.

Is it possible to do both this and Google Adsense?

Disk to come up with proposal and mail it to committee, putting it on the agenda for following meeting.

3.2 Newsletter

All agreed present form was satisfactory. Motion to approve the proposed text and ask our PR to send it to all members carried.

3.3 AGM invitation

This needs to go out ASAP. Lambert will email Mario to prepare text for AGM letter.

4 Closing

4.1 Next meeting

Next meeting: Sunday, October 30th 2011, 21:00 UTC

Motions

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