16 July 2025 – by teleconference
Present:
- Niall O’Reilly
- Nigel Titley
- Daniel Karrenberg
Apologies:
- Falk von Bornstädt
The board agreed that the meeting had been convened properly and that there was a quorum.
Report from the Treasurer
Niall reported that he had received the full report on the foundation’s accounts from the RIPE NCC: In 2024 we had expenses of €116 for bank charges resulting in a positive balance of €71,737.
Niall added that he has learned from the RIPE NCC that the bank accounts used for the foundations financial transactions are in fact already in the name of the foundation. Consequently we do not need to look for a bank. He added that RIPE NCC has re-confirmed its commitment to provide financial administration services to the foundation. So the status quo can prevail.
The board accepted the financial report. [RBF13-01]
Support of the RIPE 2025 NomCom
Daniel recalled that the board had agreed by e-mail that the foundation should support the web presence of the RIPE NomCom 2025 so that it can be visibly independent from the RIPE NCC. Daniel said that he estimated the total expense of this to be roughly 100€ in total.
The board ratified the earlier decision to support the web presence of the RIPE 2025 NomCom. [RBF13-02]
Web Hosting
Daniel recalled that as a matter of expedience the IT and web presence for the foundation had so far been organised ad-hoc and expenses covered by himself. In order to make this more sustainable Daniel proposed to move this to a professionally hosted service at Hetzner. He reported that he had set up a working prototype and collected the foundation documents and web site backups there and that this arrangement would support the award committees in exactly the same manner as before. The cost for the service is 4.29€/month, charged by the hour and with no cancellation period.
The board resolved to implement the foundation web service as proposed by Daniel. [RBF13-03]
Web Hosting Charges
Daniel recalled that he had so far paid for the foundation’s web hosting and collaboration sites out of his own pocket as a matter of expediency. Currently the monthly chargers are:
- 1.76€ – wordpress site rob-blokzijl-foundation.org
- 1.76€ – wordpress site ripe-history.net
- 4.29€ – nextcloud collaboration site
- 7.05€ – jitsi conferencing
This amounts to yearly costs of 178.32 (215.76 including VAT).
Keeping the RIPE 2025 NomCom website up for the rest of the year will cost approximately another 20€.
The board resolved to authorise expenses of up to 300€ / year for web hosting charges of the foundation and the RIPE NomCom. [RBF13-04]
Niall and Daniel will implement this decision.
Next Award
After a short discussion the board resolved to present the next award in spring of 2026 at RIPE92. [RBF13-05]
The foundation will strive to assemble a core award committee before RIPE91 and look to appoint the award committee during or shortly after RIPE91.
Daniel will contact Falk and suggest that he takes on the role of board liaison.
Board Appointments
Daniel recalled that according to the foundation’s articles everyone’s term on the board would end at the end of this meeting and that it would be prudent to appoint at least three people to the board before the meeting formally ends.
After some discussion the board decided to appoint
- Falk von Bornstädt,
- Niall O’Reilly,
- Nigel Titley, and
- Daniel Karrenberg
to the board of the foundation. [RBF13-06]
Nigel will notify RIPE NCC board and RIPE chair.
After further discussion the board decided to consider the subject of board composition more thoroughly and to put the subject on the agenda of its next meeting
Closing
There being no other business Nigel closed the meeting.