> About the local chapters policy, we have an agreement from Nat and > Snorri that they are good with us approving a local chapters policy > based on the current drafts and without language about a national > chapters policy. This is significant progress and would let Europe > and Japan become local chapters under a recognized policy. > Therefore, I'm going to produce a cleaned-up draft and have us vote > on it. With respect to the IPR, this text isn't a change from our > existing approved policy, therefore I don't see this as a blocking > issue for approving a local chapters policy that brings everyone > into the fold.
That's reasonable, I just don't want us creating a situation of approving one policy and then a few weeks later creating another related policy. On May 8, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Mike Jones wrote: > About the local chapters policy, we have an agreement from Nat and > Snorri that they are good with us approving a local chapters policy > based on the current drafts and without language about a national > chapters policy. This is significant progress and would let Europe > and Japan become local chapters under a recognized policy. > Therefore, I'm going to produce a cleaned-up draft and have us vote > on it. With respect to the IPR, this text isn't a change from our > existing approved policy, therefore I don't see this as a blocking > issue for approving a local chapters policy that brings everyone > into the fold. > > About the specifications council, the report on the PAPE working > group is DUE BY SATURDAY. Therefore waiting until Monday isn't ok. > If Josh has not responded and you try to call him one more time, > then you and Johnny should act as the majority and notify the board > and Dick and I who the 5 members are today so we can start to work > on the report. We only have 2 days as it is! > > Hope to have you on the call. > > Thanks, > -- Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David Recordon > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OpenID board] Might Miss the Call > > Hi all, > I'm currently in Dublin and was planning on making the call via Skype > though the hotel internet access is quite shoddy. I'll try to call > in, but if I don't make it here are my thoughts given the agenda. > > * General business (minutes approved, finance update) > +1 to approving the last set of minutes > > * Local chapters policy review and vote - Mike Jones > It sounds like great progress has been made in the latest draft of the > policy, though given the current discussion it doesn't feel like we're > quite there yet. The two outstanding issues seem to be how to deal > with "national chapters" and the wording around IP in terms of if we > can allow Creative Commons licensing to make things simpler. I am not > in support of approving the current local chapters policy and then > later writing a national chapters policy. Instead I think that we > should have the local chapters policy address local/national chapters > so that we have one fewer policy. As it stands I am -1 for approving > the current local chapters policy. > > * Member election logistics for PAPE working group - Mike Jones > Not quite sure what this means, if someone is able to clarify before > the meeting I'll give my thoughts. :) > > * Report from specifications council - ? > Johnny Bufu and I have reached consensus around the five editor > appointed people for the specs council. We're still waiting to hear > back from Josh. I pinged him about it yesterday and will do so again > today. I'm hopeful that we can be done with the council by our > meeting Monday though we still need to ask the five people if they're > willing to be on it. > > * Amended bylaws > I was on the call last week along with Bill, Mike, Dave, and David > around amending the bylaws. I believe there is now a new draft of > them which I am -1 for approving. I am not convinced that a forever > growing board with a small executive committee is the right structure > for the Foundation. I'm hoping that we'll be discussing this next > Monday during the F2F. > > Thanks! > --David > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
