Hey all, Here's the latest meeting minutes.
Glynn == OGB Call :: Wednesday 16th January, 2008 Present: Alan, Ben, Casper, Glynn, Jim (:5), Keith, Rich, Steve Others: Bonnie Corwin, Shawn Walker, John Plocher Audio: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ogb-meeting-16-01-2008.mp3 1) Website Editorial Review Committee At the moment the committee consists of Rich and Alan only. Rich sent off a mail to Michelle Olson whose colleague had expressed an interest in joining it before the Christmas breakup. ACTION: Rich to email ogb-discuss looking for 2 or 3 volunteers Keith asked if there was any interest in scrapping this body. Steve commented that he had an interest in seeing that happen. Keith commented that opensolaris.org was owned by Sun, and would likely exercise editorial control. It was unclear to him that the decisions made by the editorial committee would not be honoured by the owners of the servers, and worried that there was no point in creating a committee that could not execute on its mandate. Glynn commented that if the makeup of the editorial committee had a good balance of community members and the Sun employees who were responsible for opensolaris.org then it might work well. Steve thinks that Derek Cicero would be a good candidate, since he's already engaged via website discuss. John suggested that the topic would be good to delegate to the new committee and figure out what the scope and bounds of their authority. If they come back with a vote of no confidence, they can disband. Alan agreed that this would a good thing to do rather than immediately pull the plug. 2) Website Community Group Proposal John has talked to Alan Burlison offline about this and his perspective is inline with the editorial committee - if the website is Sun's property, then he sees his job working as an employee, rather than a community member working within a Community Group. Keith agreed that he would be happy disbanding the community if they can't have their opinions or actions honoured by Sun, and that it would be good to wait until we hear from Bill Franklin. Keith commented that this was a little more complicated - if the core contributors had taken the vote to disband or collectively resign then the decision would be cut and dry, but the problem is that they've also refused to recognise the OGB's authority to create the Community Group in the first place. John commented that we could write this off as a failure on all sides, and reset things to the way they were before the original proposal. Keith asked if a Community Group was the right representation on how website infrastructure work should be accomplished, and if so, should its charter be like the one we approved. John commented that this was the right direction to go if the Community Group had control over the website infrastructure. If it didn't, then we're back to the editorial question. John added that the editorial committee seemed to have a positive impetus behind it, whereas the Website Community Group had negative energy and wanted to die. All agreed to wait until the questions around the editorial committee had been resolved. Rich commented that he had received a reply back from Michelle Olson that Alysson Troffer was interested in joining the website editorial committee. 3) Jim's Resignation Jim has new work priorities assigned to him, and feels that he doesn't have the bandwidth to properly serve on the board anymore. The board would like to thank Jim for his involvement during the year. Ben Rockwood will replace Jim for the rest of the year as of Monday 21st January. Ben commented that he's still getting up to speed on the various threads, and hopes to more interactive next week. Ben queried the discussions currently happening on ogb-private. Alan replied that Bill's role was to communicate with the OGB directly, and that alias provided the right mechanism for the moment. The board talked about the discussion lists, and how we might avoid off-topic discussion on the OGB lists - possible solutions were creating read-only archives, ogb-business aliases, the use of the new core contributors mailing list, and turning off cross-posting on Jive ogb-discuss forum. Keith commented that he didn't understand the need to shut down people rather than topics. John replied that there was benefits to asking guidance from the leaders of the community rather than anyone within the community. The discussion was tabled for another time to get through the rest of the agenda items. 4) Election planning Alan sent out a proposed calendar for the elections this year, mirroring the election calendar of last year. Nominations for OGB will open in a little over a month from now. That same date will also hold for submissions for proposed ammendments to the constitution. ACTION: Alan to mail ogb-discuss announcing that the proposed election calendar is adopted, and will update the website. John asked if the OGB members had proposed ammendments in the pipeline. Keith replied there was nothing official the OGB yet, but mentioned that there was a possibility of the OGB endorsing or not endorsing a subset of amendments that did end up being proposed.
