Agenda for May 2006 Board Meeting

Time and Location

This meeting was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 4:00PM at Lollicup, 700 S Winchester in San Jose.

This meeting will be resceduled because a quorum was not present. 4 voting members and 1 SIG coordinator were present. 5 voting members are required for a quorum.

Agenda items

The following items are planned for discussion. The agenda is equally owned by all Directors.

1. Opening Items

1. Revise and accept the agenda.

2. Old Business

1. Report on the Article 12 rewrite.
2. The committee to write by-laws for a parallel 501(c)3 organization has determined that the situation has changed and it is now more appropriate just to make the existing corporation a 501(c)3.

3. New Business

1. Determine that the organization needs to be a 501(c)3 instead of a 501(c)7, and not two of them side-by-side. The accelerated pace of the SVWUX arrangements with the City of San Jose's emergency services and Stratofox's WiFi^?-Net with charitabel contributions have made it unlikely to meet 501(c)7 rules of 60% of revenue coming from members. The Linux Picnic also already operates on a model of corporate sponsorships.
   1. End the committee of the board tasked with writing By-Laws for a separate 501(c)3 alongside a 501(c)7.
   2. Establish a committee of the board to write an amendment to the By-Laws to make The South Bay Community Network a 501(c)3 organization instead of a 501(c)7.
   3. Propose changing the membership structure from a dues-paying system to a Meritocracy (government by those who make accomplishments) system similar to the Apache Software Foundation's model.
   4. Hold a vote on the organizational change by the dues-paid members and those participants who would reasonably have been expected to join had the system been fully deployed.