Hey, Given that these are already massively late, I figured I'd post them directly to here. OGB members, if you have any comments, feel free to follow up.
Glynn == OGB Meeting Minutes :: 5th March 2008 Present: Alan, Ben, Casper, Glynn Regrets: Steve Absent: Keith Other: Bonnie Corwin, John Plocher, Justin Erenkranzt, Ben Taylor, Tim Cramer Recording: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ogb-meeting-05-03-2008.mp3 1) Election Status Glynn commented that #opensolaris-meeting has now reached quorum, and that the deadlines for the final list of candidates and amendments to the constitution had expired. Glynn added that there has been 2 relatively non-controversial amendments - Process for Constitutional Amendment is insufficient in Article IX http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=555 OGB Candidates should be required to declare interests http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=554 Glynn commented that he had asked Barton George to do candidate interviews similar to that which Simon did last year. Ben suggested that candidates could append their details onto the relevant defect.opensolaris.org bug, and allow people to contribute themselves. Bonnie suggested that they could sumit to their OpenSolaris profile. Glynn didn't see any problem with either approach, and commented that it would be good to receive many different variants. Justin suggested that it would be good to recommend a template that candidates could use. ACTION: Glynn to ping current candidates and ask for their affiliation and a short bio. Glynn to summarize information on the election candidate page on the OGB website. Glynn asked whether it would be good for the OGB to recommend a set of candidates for the election or, indeed, proposed amendments. Rich recommended the OGB stay away from endorsing anyone, though individual members should feel free to do so. Alan agreed that he would be more comfortable endorsing amendments only. Glynn suggested another approach would be to endorse a set of skills required. Ben commented that this would be covered in the annual report, giving candidates a good idea of what issues were needed to be tackled next year. Ben added that the OGB should have a clear statement around the proposed amendments, summarizing the positives and negatives of each one. John suggested it may be too late for this, with Glynn adding that it would be a relatively trivial task for someone to write up and get agreement by mail. ACTION: Ben to write up a summary of the proposed amendments, giving detail of the positives and negatives of each one. John commented that there was a priority poll during last years election, and thinks it would be a good idea to use the same questions as last year. Rich agreed, though was worried about the timeline to getting this written up. ACTION: Glynn to add priority poll questions from last year into this year's ballot. 2) Software Porters Community Group Proposal Glynn commented that this proposal had not received much discussion, and speculated that it had been overshadowed by the elections. Alan asked whether it would be useful approving this so late into the OGB term, when there was a strong likelihood of a restructure next year. Glynn commented that this group had a lot of overlap with existing communities, with John adding a question of whether it had a well defined charter. Ben suggested that this proposal was no different to the other community groups. John commented that another option would be to defer until the next OGB. Ben added that he had no issue based on the proposal, and didn't want to hold it back based on the issues with the OGB around restructuring. Casper agreed, and commented that Community Groups didn't have a large overhead in creation. Ben commented that the Apache Software Foundation had a well defined process for dealing with the creation of new projects, and it would be worth looking at. Approve: Alan, Ben, Casper, Glynn, Rich 3) Annual Report Steve has sent some ideas to Ben offline about this. This is still in process, and given Steve isn't on the call, will table for another time. John added that it would be good for the OGB to start making sure that loose ends are tied up, given that there are only 2 or 3 more meetings before the end of the current OGB term. Ben added that he hoped to have a draft of the annual report ready for next weeks meeting, and that it would help towards this.
