Minutes: OpenEmbedded eV Board meeting, 20-Jun-2011 Attendees:
Michael Lauer (mickey) Philip Balister (Crofton) Florian Boor (florian) Denys Dmytriyenko (denix) Agenda: 00) congratulate Mickey with the recent birth of his daughter 01) denix agrees to take meeting minutes 02) state the agenda topics, collect any last minute additions: * current status of hosting services * funding the purchase of a network switch for the servers * general discussion of eV budget, spendings * another call for donations * TSC election proposal from RP * upcoming events and the creation of a "show" box 03) discussed the current state of OE hosting services * list of funding requested by infrastructure team (Tom King) reduced to the network switch * other items were resolved with the help of The Linux Foundation: ** LF sponsors Tom's travel ** LF donates hosting servers * denix asked for clarification of what is being donated and whom it's donated to (i.e. is there a lease being signed?): ** LF grant/donation is not directly to OE eV, but rather to nas-admin group at OSUOSL that serves OE infrastructure among other Open Source projects ** the remaining piece of equipment OE eV needs to fund is the network switch ** Board to ask Tom for more details for the following: = hardware side, preferably accompanied by pictures of the actual rack and equipment = organization charts and interactions of the involved parties: Tom, OE infrastructure team, nas-admin, OSUOSL etc. 04) approve to fund the network switch * estimated at $1500 = ~800-1000 eur * somewhat expensive, server grade - "not the type used at home" * Board to trust Tom on selecting the right switch * figure out the way to transfer money to nas-admin/OSUOSL ** Tom to coordinate 05) OE eV budget * currently there is around 3000 eur in the bank * florian to check with the bank in Germany if possible to open a debit/credit card linked with the eV account * preferably without annual or any idle fees 06) call for donation * OE needs an income stream - another call for donations in the mailing lists * denix to check if TI can make another donation ** may be difficult, as TI and other companies are LF/Yocto members and pay dues ** thus, latest LF donations to OE as a "feedback" channel make sense 07) review RP's proposal of TSC re-election * proposal is for Richard and Stefan to step down first and run elections for 1 seat * then continue with one-at-a-time elections going forward * alternative is to elect the entire TSC at once: ** deemed unnecessary and bad for the project * agree and approve RP/TSC proposal * Board to initiate the election process: ** announce another round of candidates for 1 TSC seat, discussion phase, call for votes (Mickey) * discuss the voting logistics - ask if Graeme can help with counting the votes, or use one of the proposed software * Crofton says Graeme is on travel for next 2 weeks, but agreed to count the votes after that ** that gives proper timing for announcement, discussion and call for votes phases 08) upcoming events and show box * agree to allow spending up to 500 eur at florian's discretion on the show box * ac adapters, multiplugs, switch, accesspoint, flyers, posters, tft + cables, tape, some lights * include some dev boards, donated by companies * some of the items already exist and were previously donated * need table cloth, which exists, but needs washing * ELC-E in Prague in October * agree to schedule the General Assembly at ELC-E (Crofton) * Crofton to talk to Jefro/RP about reserving a room 09) Board to have another meeting in 3 weeks * around 8th-10th of July _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core