Hey, Here is the minutes from our call on the 6th Feb.
Glynn == OGB Meeting Minutes :: 6th February 2008 OGB: Alan, Ben, Casper (:5), Glynn, Keith, Rich, Steve (:10) Other: Shawn Walker, John Plocher Audio: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ogb-meeting-06-06-2007.mp3 1) Distribution Community Proposal No additional discussion prior to a vote. Approve: Alan, Ben, Glynn, Rich Reject: Keith Not Present: Casper, Steve 2) Project Instantiation Policy John suggestd that the policy be updated (in Section 2.3) to reference the alias Eric set up, as opposed to sending it to the OGB discussion list. Ben asked if the existing policy should be ammended or completely rewritten. He added that the OGB should have a unified idea of how this was all supposed to work so it could be cleaned up. Ben commented that he'd like to get things as strictly lined up with the Constitution. Keith replied that if that was the case, doing away with multiple endorsements was a good idea. He added that he was worried that it would create too much churn if things were likely to change post election anyway and uneccessary confusion for the community. John added that his suggested was intentionally simple for that very reason. Ben commented that making the changes should be done soon, so that when the next board comes along, then they will be more aware of where the various issues stand. Glynn added that he was worried that removing multiple endorsements didn't reflect the existing natural overlap with projects to various different Community Groups and artificially enforcing that would lose value to the project. Ben replied that those types of projects should possibly be a Community Group. Glynn commented that project should be easy to start up and not closely connected with governance. Keith added that while he agreed with Ben in many ways, that if people followed the Constitution strictly, no one would get any work done. Glynn commented that we needed to reflect the reality of the current process to start with. ACTION: Glynn to work with John Plocher and propose a change to the project instantiation policy to reflect the reality of the current process. 3) Annual Meeting Keith sent a draft before the meeting. John suggested that the ambiguities around quorum be resolved prior to posting. Ben commented that everyone needed to be there at the same time for quorum to be achieved. Ben suggested an ammendment so that this annual meeting would only have to organized once. John added that a different metric of quorum could be achieved eg. keeping an IRC channel open for 24 hours while the call was taken. Glynn agreed to figure out some mechanism to record a role call of members. Glynn suggested hooking up with Dan Price who did the original work putting a web IRC client onto opensolaris.org which could help with people joining the channel. Glynn asked about any authentication for membership attending the meeting. Ben didn't think that was necessary since they won't be voting in that forum. Approval of Keith's draft will wait until the next meeting. ACTION: OGB to discuss Keith's draft on ogb-discuss. 4) Website Editorial Committee John asked for confirmation of the status of the Editorial Committee. Rich replied that it had been set up, and that based on Eric's recommendation they were going to use website-discuss for their discussion. All agreed that it would be good to announce it. ACTION: Rich to email opensolaris-announce announcing the new editorial committee.
