Hey, Hopefully my last set of minutes (whooop!), since the later meetings this month never reached quorum. The new OGB meetings will start next month.
Glynn == OGB Meeting Minutes :: 12th March 2008 Present: Alan, Ben, Glynn, Rich Regrets: Steve Absent: Casper, Keith Other: John Plocher, Simon Phipps, Tim Cramer, Bonnie Corwin Recording: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ogb-meeting-12-03-2008.mp3 1) Amendment Voting Guide Ben's voting guide draft was sent out on Sunday night which detailed the pros and cons of the proposed amendments. About 41 Core Contributors have voted so far in the elections, out of about 360+ in total. John asked why it had been sent to ogb-private. Ben replied that he wanted to make sure it was non-political and non-controversial. All board members present agreed to send out the guide to ogb-discuss. ACTION: Ben to post voting guide to ogb-discuss. 2) Annual Report Steve has been working on the annual report. It's a glorified list at the moment, that is more or less complete. Ben is assisting during the review cycle, but didn't know that Steve was on vacation. Ben will assume the work and have it ready for sending it out by Friday. The big issue is cross referencing, trying to find what has and hasn't happened over the course of the year. In particular, the ARC style proposals (OGB-2007/001, ...) mostly because they have died. Ben thinks they should be covered so the new board can see what has been attempted, and why those proposals never went anywhere. Glynn commented that this could be discussed at e-mail level, rather than needing formal voting. ACTION: Ben to send out a draft of the annual report by the weekend. 3) Response to Trademark Statement Rich sent an updated draft to ogb-private, and asked for OGB members to review it. Glynn commented that the current draft didn't really address a call to action for the community to get out of the current situation as was suggested in a previous OGB meeting. Ben felt that a response wasn't really required, unless it was specifically going to do something - the current draft doesn't say anything that we don't already know. John followed up that a decision to post a response had been made at an earlier meeting, and that the motion on the table was to decide what that response would be. Alan suggested that encouraging a better relationship with Sun was a good addition to the include, to avoid situations like this in the future. ACTION: Rich to include feedback in the draft, and post to ogb-discuss. 4) Outstanding issues to clean up John suggested a bit of house cleaning (loose ends) before the new OGB gets elected. Ben suggested that a lot of this would be included in the annual report eg. OGB 'ARC style' proposals. Glynn commented that he would go through the outstanding Community Group grants that haven't been already processed. Alan suggested that Community Groups should be encouraged to use bugzilla in the future. ACTION: Glynn to put outstanding grants into defect.opensolaris.org Alan suggested also filing a bug in the process category for the dropped community guidelines document. ACTION: Glynn will look at the community guidelines document and attach to defect.opensolaris.org for continued discussion. John suggested that there should be a joint meeting with the new and old OGB. Ben commented that it would be at the discretion of the new OGB, given the old one would no longer be in power, and thus a non official meeting. Alan suggested that there would be a timeslot before the new OGB came to power that might work for such a meeting.
