TPI Meeting Minutes, 03 March 1999 Present: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Randal Schwartz, Jon Orwant, Tim O'Reilly, Sharon Hopkins Absent: Nate Torkington Meeting opened. 1.0 Reading of minutes from 12/97 board meeting. APPROVED. 2.0 Overview of 1998 financials - Orwant declines compensation for money owed by TPI to The Perl Journal. - No known remaining debts outstanding. 3.0 Discussion of current legal and tax status of TPI. - State paperwork up to date. State notified in last fall's filing that we intend to dissolve. - Federal status not known. No paperwork was filed with IRS in 1998, but may not have been required. 4.0 Update on perl.org's status. - Domain's perl.org and cpan.org belong to TPI, but TPI does not own the machine hosting perl.org. 5.0 "To Be or Not To Be" - Final status talks on the future of The Perl Institute. Where do we go from here? MOTION by Randal Schwartz, 2nd by Jon Orwant, that we dissolve the corporation. Discussion - who will talk about the "big issues" of Perl? Tim commented on need for directional leader; Larry discussed "top-down" vs. "bottom-up" development - TPI was an attempt at a "top-down" approach, but Perl culture is more grassroots, a la the Perl Mongers. Motion APPROVED by unanimous vote. 6. Assets plan. MOTION by Randal Schwartz, 2nd by Jon Orwant, that we gift the assets of the TPI corporation to the Perl Mongers, non-profit of New York, subject to their board approval, and presentation of a project that is acceptable to a majority of the TPI board within 60 days. Discussion - TPI will provide a list of what we want to know. ACTION: Jon Orwant to provide a list of questions for the Perl Mongers board. Motion APPROVED by unanimous vote (Randal S. abstaining). 7.0 Communicating TPI's status and board resolutions. ACTION: Sharon to send copy of minutes by end of week to brian@stonehenge.com. ACTION: Larry and Randal to write a press release to be posted on perl.org. Meeting Adjourned.