[ogb-discuss] OGB Meeting Minutes :: 6th February 2008

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Here is the minutes from our call on the 6th Feb.

Glynn

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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.