Council Meeting 15 September 2011

• Present: John Ferlito, Michael Carden, Joshua Hesketh, Kelly Yeoh, Josh Stewart.
• Late: Peter Lieverdink.
• Apologies: Alice Boxhall.

Agenda

• LCA 2012 update
  Registrations are open and there is a schedule. Great work LCA2012 team!

• LCA 2013 bid process
  John going on the first LCA 12013 bid team visit this weekend

• Budget progress for new financial year (provisionally starting 1 October)
  TBA

• Drupal Down Under 2012
  They've been too busy attending DrupalCon.
  Opening regos in the next week or two

• Progress of policy discussion on linux-aus
  • Code of Conduct - Kicked off
    First response is TL;DR? Generally positive. Maybe add a summary at the top.
  • Donations
  • Media team Charter

• Advocacy team?
  No progress

• Constitutional amendments
  Been and done. John is filling out the Office of Fair Trading paperwork and will lodge it.
  Need to file: constitutional change, AGM, public officer.

• Moving to Mediawiki
  In progress. John to contact Peter re a new namespace.

• Non-Paypal payment gateways
  Joshua has started some research for alternatives. Best option is probably multiple merchant accounts.

• Mary's resignation
  Motion: To appoint James Polley to fill the casual vacancy on the council.
  Proposed: John
  Seconded: Kelly
  Passed with 4 affirmative votes and an abstention from Michael. Welcome aboard.

• Code of Conduct
  In progress (see above)

• Quote for new server hardware
  $11k (GST ex) sofar. May go to $13k (ex GST) once harddrives are sorted. The council gives John permission to spend up to confirm a finalised quote up to $13k (GST ex) for new hardware.

• Face to face
  Will re-evaluate whether we need a face to face after the LCA 2013 site visits.