Attendees: Doug Payauys, Nancy Tiemeier, Brent Beatty, Marijan Adam, Adam Kujawski, Jason Pontious, Chris Cameron, Phil Maag, Brian Riley, Tim Berelsman
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved.
Governance – n/a
Treasurer’s Report – Kim was unable to attend, she will update in the September meeting.
Associate & Senior Member Applications –
Senior application – City of Hilliard, application approved
Content Sourcing
CTO
- Weekly calls have been beneficial.
- The new hardware has arrived, looking to start installing. Get equipment talking next week and the software the following week. The switch will be have that and then the patch panel.
- Still no word from OARnet on the route servers, may just transition to the new ones. They are the NOC today but looking to take that back over. We need to decide how want to handle it and may need to purchase a service to monitor it and be the NOC.
Marketing Committee
Old / New Business
Membership Discussion – At the last Board meeting, we assigned a sub-committee to look at our membership dues and make a recommendation for going forward. After much discussion, this is what we feel would good for the group and our potential members.
Senior Membership – $1000 initially and $1000 a year (1 or 10G port)
Senior Membership – $2500 initially and $2500 a year (40G port if available)
Senior Membership – $4000 initially and $4000 a year (100G port if available. This is more for future but wanted it included)
Associate Membership – $500 initially and $500 a year
We also felt it would be good to provide about 10% of the switch ports (not including ports on remote switches managed by IX members) pro bono for Government or Strategic accounts that would either help us to bring in new members or traffic. All of these members would be reviewed once a year to confirm we should continue them for the next year or if we need to cancel this benefit since we didn’t get the result that we anticipated. We could make that percentage higher based on the potential of the requested member.
If a member signed up for membership the 3rd Quarter of the year, they would pay 50% of the membership and if they signed up in the 4th Quarter of the year they would pay 25%. This would encourage members to join throughout the year and not make the administration of it too difficult. This would make membership renewals all be due at the same time every year.
We will continue discussions at the next meeting.
Next meeting September 6th at NetGain.
Meeting Adjourned.
Respectfully submitted by Nancy Tiemeier