IM Freedom Board Meeting 2020-04-22 00:00 UTC using Zoom.us. All time listed

below in UTC.

* Directors Present

* John Baily, President/Treasure

* Matthew Needham, Vice President

* We will meet the cut off date for Bitbucket.org.

* Our Kubernetes cluster has been sponsored by Digital Ocean.

* Trac and the IMF wiki have yet to migrate.

* Gary created a new Mercurial hosting tool named HGKeeper.

* Retired planet.pidgin.im

* Trac is going to move to issues.imfreedom.org.

IMF to support the infrastructure.

* Ethan states that that is our primary charter.

* Gary mentions that Adium's project status, while difficult at the

well. And that to say that this is just Pidgin is a bit short

sighted.

* Richard asks if Gary isn't involved and if IM Freedom was paying

* Both Ethan and Richard agree.

* Ethan states that if we could have thrown some money at Bitbucket

to stay there then we would have.

and that's why we previously wanted a proposal and so on. But it's

also not just HGKeeper that we're talking about, it's the lion's

share of the maintenance of our infrastructure for a couple of

concern.

* John points out that if we were to go out and contract this work from

an external party it would cost us a significant amount more and that

* Ethan points out that Gary did all of this without expectation of

reimbursement.

* John says that at this point, he believes this discussion has absolved

* Ethan states that if Gary had not continued to push on Pidgin

specifically there would have been no development on Pidgin in the past

5 years and while the project may not be where any of us hoped it would

* Ethan continues that what we're not just paying arrears from the last

meeting, but instead it's for a span of time that goes back for half

a decade.

Particularly since we have the precedent of spending this size of

our war chest for an arguably less critical infrastructure in the past.

* Peter is rather pissed at Gary for not writing the proposal last year,

* Ethan points out that we most likely can't do this again in the future,

unless we get more income.

* Peter points out that this is a special circumstance and that since

* Peter mentions that due to the pandemic that the person doing the

work is in need of a job and that that is the reason behind it and

that it's not about setting a precedent.

it was Gary's decision to make this his primary work and it is not

the responsibility of the board. That said, all of the other

infrastructure work that Ethan, John, Richard, etc have been doing

wouldn't have happened if the project wasn't alive and that there's

* Ethan states that going back to the precedent question, it has

to be made clear that this not a thing we can frequently do and

that this is potentially opening the door to using our war chest to

* Peter makes a motion that the value should be $5,000 USD.

* Matthew seconds

* Passes unanimously

* Peter mentions that there would need to be a written proposal.

* John and Ethan agree.

*** Gary rejoins the call ***

income to do this again.

* Gary thanks everyone for their generosity and asks a few questions

about taxes.

Matthew is capable as well. Ethan says he can look it up online.

* Ethan makes a mention to conclude the meeting

* Gary seconds

* Passes unanimously