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+title: "Minutes for the 2024-09-15 Board Meeting"
+date: 2024-09-15
+audio:
+    - "https://data.imfreedom.org/public/board-meetings/audio-20240915.ogg"
+videos:
+    - "https://data.imfreedom.org/public/board-meetings/video-20240915.mp4"
+---
+
+IM Freedom Board Meeting 2024-09-14 00:00 UTC using Google Meet. All times
+listed below are in UTC.
+
+* Preamble and call to order at 00:15 UTC.
+* Directors present:
+  * John Bailey, President/Treasurer
+  * Matthew Needham, Vice President
+  * Gary Kramlich, Secretary
+  * Ethan Blanton, Director
+  * Richard Laager, Director
+* Others present:
+  * Patrick Cloke
+* Treasurer's Report
+  * Opening balance on January 1, 2023 was $24,414.41.
+  * Total expenses were $4989.38, consisting of:
+    * Development, $4,000
+    * Fees, $125.50
+    * Representation, $731.50
+  * Total income was $595.38, consisting of:
+    * Amazon Smile, $67.71 (Amazon Smile is permanently gone, we won't receive this anymore)
+    * Dividends from the Fidelity investment account, $486.08
+    * Donations, $23.73
+    * Interest, $1.84
+    * Spreadshirt, $16.02
+  * Closing balance on December 31, 2023 was $20,049.94.  This is a net loss of $4,364.47.
+  * Opening balance on January 1, 2024 was $20,049.94.
+  * Total expenses so far are $90, all of it fees.
+  * Total income so far is $243.53, consisting of:
+    * Spreadshirt, $37.70
+    * Donations, $180.83 (John reimbursing for fees he caused)
+  * Current balance today is $20,203.47, a net gain of $153.53.
+  * Note that $90 of the fees in 2023 and all of the fees in 2024 were my fault due to letting the savings account fall below a balance threshold.  The bank charges $15/month for savings accounts that fall below the threshold.
+  * Gary makes a motion to accept the treasure's report as read.
+  * Ethan seconds
+  * Passes unanimously
+* Officer Election
+  * Ethan proposes that we vote as a slate to retain our current officers.
+  * Richard seconds.
+  * Passes unanimously
+* Board Member Election
+  * Ethan Moves to elect the six directors: John Bailey, Gary Kramlich, Richard
+    Laager, Kneedham Matthew, Ethan Blanton, and Peter Lawler.
+  * Richard seconds
+  * Passes unanimously
+  * Matthew motions to add Patrick Cloke as a director.
+  * Gary and Ethan second.
+  * Passes unanimously
+* Old Business
+  * Ethan mentions that John paid some fee out of pocket via donations.
+    * Ethan moves to refund Johns 180 USD donation
+    * Gary Seconds.
+    * Passes unanimously
+* New Business
+  * Richard moves to have Gary close the savings account and move the money to
+    checking account.
+    * Ethan seconds
+    * Passes unanimously
+  * Gary ask for reimbursement for the Hardware Security Module containing a
+    new code signing certificate private key which cost 666.56 USD.
+    * Ethan moves to reimburse Gary for 666.56 USD for the signing key.
+    * Matthew seconds
+    * Passes unanimously with Gary abstaining
+  * 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.
+* Adjournment
+  * Ethan motions
+  * Gary seconds
+  * Passes unanimously
+* Meeting adjourned at 01:23 UTC
