[board] minutes for May 2009 meeting

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> The minutes for today's meeting, which was small but useful, are
>> attached. More followup should be coming from both Jan and I on
>> things  that were discussed.
>
> I want to explicitly link to the advocacy/organization that we talked
> about during the meeting: http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/
[deletia]
> There are two major advantages I see in such a solution:
> - we would get tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status which might attract more donations
> - we would have a legal entity that makes our copyright situation much safer

I think these are now excellent reasons for us to join, and I'm in  
favor of going forward with the conservancy now.

Any other thoughts here?

-chuck