NZOSS AGM 2006 - Details

The 2006 AGM of the New Zealand Open Source Society has been held. Thankyou to all those who participated.

In order to allow maximum participation there will be an IRC channel and a phone conference facility available.

Voting at the AGM will be done via the NZOSS website poll system. Please note that you must be registered on the site and logged on in order to vote as well as to access some of the materials to be discussed during the meeting.

The #nzoss channel on irc.nzoss.org.nz will be active for those unable to use the phone conference facility. This channel may be moderated depending on the volume and type of traffic.

You will need a touch tone phone to dial in. The conference facility will guide you through the link process. Call any of the above numbers and you will be asked to enter the meeting ID number. You will then be asked to state your name and press #. Once that is done you will be connected to the call. The call facility will not be active until 2pm Sunday 30th.

As no Notices of Motion or Remits were received by the cutoff date of 12th April proxy votes will not be used. Members still have to opportunity to propose Motions etc. at the AGM and these will be voted on by those in attendance.

Agenda

  1. Administration
  2. Presidents Welcome and Report
  3. Treasurers Report and Statement of Accounts
  4. Election of Officers
  5. General Business

Administration
Quorum, Record of attendance, Apologies.
Minutes of previous AGM (found here. You must be logged on to view)

Presidents Welcome and Report
Peter Harrison

Treasurers Report and Statement of Accounts
Acceptance of accounts.

Election of Officers
The current Officers of the NZOSS may be found here.

The following current Councils members have indicated they are prepared to stand for Council again:

  • Peter Harrison (President)
  • Carl Klitscher (Secretary)
  • Zane Gilmore (Christchurch Regional Officer)
  • Daniel Reurich
  • Andrew Turner
  • Matthew Cruickshank (Government Officer)

The following members were nominated for Council

  • Matt Brown
  • Craig Box
  • Brent Wood

There are up to 11 council positions available plus President and Vice President. If no further nominations are received at the AGM then the people nominated as above will be automatically elected.

General Business
Some suggestions to date:

  • Membership criteria
  • Linux trademark in New Zealand and NZOSS logo protection
  • NZOSS Domain registration renewal
  • Software Freedom day organisation
  • Website progress update

If you have any queries please contact secretary@nzoss.org.nz