Minutes: OpenEmbedded eV Board meeting, 11-Jul-2011 Attendees:
Michael Lauer (mickey) Philip Balister (Crofton) Florian Boor (florian) Denys Dmytriyenko (denix) 00) action items from last meeting: * call for TSC elections (Mickey) - done * call for OE eV General Assembly (Crofton) - done * status update on sending money for the switch ** florian is waiting for additional info (bank address) from Jeff (OSUOSL) to initiate the transfer ** once received, florian has to go to the bank in person to make the transfer ** sent the reminder to Jeff, the required info was received after the meeting * check and open a credit/debit card for simple money transfers ** florian to take care when at the bank * call for donations ** denix checked with TI, waiting for after Yocto budget is approved to see if any money left after LF and Yocto fees ** Intel offered a donation too - need to follow up with Dirk or DaveSt ** encourage people to make individual donations 01) agenda: * TSC elections * LF server donation status * more financial/donation discussion * financial contributions to OSUOSL for hosting OE * some/any financial support from LF/Yocto 02) TSC elections * call for TSC candidates was made * 2 weeks period is over - only 1 candidate (RP) * is call for votes required? * can one candidate be accepted by acllamation? * there were no reminders at the end of 2 weeks encouraging more candidates ** should the reminder be sent now and period extended by 1-2 days? ** Board decides by majority that 2 weeks were enough for anyone interested to propose their candidacy * Board agrees to suggest electing RP by acclamation on the list (Mickey) ** if nobody objects, close the voting and announce the results * make a note to send reminders next time before the 2-week application/discussion/voting period is over * during GA we should discuss and/or update the statutes covering this situation (acclamation) in detail 03) LF server donation status * still in the process - the previous hardware specs were scrapped * while talking to involved parties, it's not clear who's the legal recipient of the donation ** Tom King is in the talks with LF and OSUOSL directly ** are the servers donated to OSUOSL/nas-admin or OE eV/Board? * need to talk to LF to clarify things ** who are the people involved, who's overseeing, paperwork? ** Crofton on travel, denix to cover for him during next Yocto-AB meeting and raise the above questions * suggest involved parties (Tom, LF, OSUOSL) to copy the Board ([email protected]) in ongoing discussions instead of direct peer-to-peer emails or random IRC chats * possibly hold a conference call to make the process more transparent 04) is the corporate donation procedure documented? * check the Wiki, update if needed * there is some form needed to be filled ** Crofton has the copy from previous TI donation ** florian will work with Intel, consult with Crofton for any legal aspects 05) individual donations * denix makes first individual donation through PayPal ** hopes to inspire others to donate... :) * Crofton to donate an SSD 06) financial contributions to OSUOSL * Tom reports that OE is consuming most of the free resources provided by OSUOSL to Open Source projects ** OE needs to be a good citizen and contribute financially back to OSUOSL, like other projects * Mickey: what's consuming the resources - web, git? ** According to Tom, git traffic is up, plus oe.org source mirror contributes to network traffic ** Also autobuilders doing regression testing on Angstrom and oe-core - cpu/disk load * Estimate the amount of financial contribution to OSUOSL ** Still under discussion, Tom suggesting around $300-$500 per year? ** to offset the free hosting and bandwidth... * Tom estimates to have 4-8 physical servers for OE in the near future 07) financial support from LF/Yocto * LF is already supporting OE ** server donation ** sponsoring Tom's travel to the site for admin work ** offering travel sponsorship to key OE people for big events? * some OE community members are suggesting that Yocto should provide additional financial support to OE ** to help with OE's ongoing expenses ** to support oe-core/meta-oe development, hosting and regression testing ** not talking about big money though 08) agree on next Board meeting * next meeting is either Aug 8-12 or short one the last week of July for financial updates * need to start fomalizing the budget and concrete financial goals 09) anyone attending CCC? * http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Camp _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
