Re: 2011 annual report

I spent some of today working on our 2011 annual report. I'm not
claiming to have come up with anything major; I mostly cribbed from the
2005 report John Goerzen produced and updated it with info from this
year.

Things I think are missing before it's just about acceptable:

* A welcome from the president
* A financial summary for the year
* Membership information (ideally for year start/end, but what we had
had at 30th June 2011 is the minimum IMO).

It would be nice to have these by this weekend so I can put together the
final report in time for the Annual General Meeting next week.

Other things that would be nice if available:

* Reports from any other committees who did anything this year (do we
have any active?)
* Any reports associated projects would like to submit.

I could only find existing annual reports from 2004 and 2005; I have put
them up at:

http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/

The current rough draft for this year is in LaTeX and can be found at:

http://the.earth.li/~noodles/annual-report-2011.tex

With the generated PDF also available at:

http://the.earth.li/~noodles/annual-report-2011.pdf

All comments welcome. Especially if accompanied by patches.

J.

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Hi,

On Tue Jul 05, 2011 at 06:52:33 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> I spent some of today working on our 2011 annual report. I'm not
> claiming to have come up with anything major; I mostly cribbed from the
> 2005 report John Goerzen produced and updated it with info from this
> year.
>
> Things I think are missing before it's just about acceptable:
>
> * A welcome from the president
> * A financial summary for the year
> * Membership information (ideally for year start/end, but what we had
> had at 30th June 2011 is the minimum IMO).
>
> It would be nice to have these by this weekend so I can put together the
> final report in time for the Annual General Meeting next week.
>
> Other things that would be nice if available:
>
> * Reports from any other committees who did anything this year (do we
> have any active?)
> * Any reports associated projects would like to submit.

IMHO we should also mention, that we had our monthly meetings, with
links to the logs of them, and that we met quorum for all of them except
one. I will see if i can come up with a patch of this.

Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> On Tue Jul 05, 2011 at 06:52:33 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: [...]
> > Other things that would be nice if available:
> >
> > * Reports from any other committees who did anything this year (do we
> > have any active?)
> > * Any reports associated projects would like to submit.
>
> IMHO we should also mention, that we had our monthly meetings, with
> links to the logs of them, and that we met quorum for all of them except
> one. I will see if i can come up with a patch of this.

I think links to the minutes would be enough.

A note about the recent suggestion to dissolve the trademark committe
would be nice. I don't know how far along that is...?

Thanks for working on an annual report,
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Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> * Membership information (ideally for year start/end, but what we had
> had at 30th June 2011 is the minimum IMO).

As of 2011-06-30:

Contributing Members: 449
Non-contributing Members: 437