Meetings/Livemeetings/Minutes 28-Jul-2011

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Minutes

• The board gets voted all together.
• Valon Brestovci proposes to wait until september to vote on the board simply to give it time to find out what FLOSSK wants to achieve within the next year.
• Bernard NIkaj states that he is ready to give up his position as Board member if needed, considering that he won't have time to contribute actively to FLOSSK in the next year.
• Taulant Ramabaja gave a recap of what he did over the last year (FLOSS as AUK, Mozilla release party, Startup Weekend, presentations). He also stated that because of his new job at IPKO Foundation and being the new Student Government Preseident at AUK he won't be able to actively partcipate as a FLOSSK Board Member.
• Arianit Dobroshi says that every FLOSSK member shoud adapt a specific FLOSS Project.
• Taulant is ready to do Open Educational Resources and BItcoin.
• Ariana asks why there are no new FLOSSK members.
  • Bernard answers and says that FLOSSK lacks an incentive system.
  • Taulant says that FLOSSK lacks an incentive structure because people who go to flossk are all enthusiasts.
• Bernard says that about 400 wikipedia articles have been written by his students at the UP. Nobody in the group knew about this.
  • Taulant and Arianit say that this is a lack of communication within the group.
  • Taulant and ARianit had the same idea and knew professors that wanted to do that but lacked other interested professors.
• Taulant proposes to incorporate seriously the idea of Bernard'w wikipedia-UP project for more professors.
• Arianit: we need to put up these projects on our site.
• Altin: the FLOSSK website has been done and also the mozilla website for Kosova.
• Arianit: I am ready to lead the wikipedia project if nobody else takes it up.
• Sami Frasheri has shown interest for a FLOSSK presentation.
• Arianit: everyone wants to do one project, but very few say which project. You have time until August 10th to tell us which project you want to adapt.
  • Arianit says that whoever does not adopt a project wil no longer be FLOSSK member.
• Bernard: we need to do an inventory of what projects have been done and what can be done (including potentially profitavle one's)
• Board members unanumously voted:
  • Arianit Dobroshi
  • James Michael DuPont
  • Shkumbin Brestovci
  • Valon Brestovci
  • Besfort Guri
• Under the precondition of every FLOSSK member choosing a project until August 10th Arianit Dobroshi gets the unanumous vote for President from all present members.