Hey, Given that these are already massively late, I figured I'd post them directly to here. OGB members, if you have any comments, feel free to follow up.
Glynn == OGB Meeting Minutes :: 27th February 2008 Present: Alan, Glynn, Rich, Steve Absent: Ben, Casper, Keith Other: Brian Gupta, John Plocher Recording: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/ogb/audio-recordings/ogb-meeting-27-02-2008.mp3 1) Election and Annual Meeting Status Glynn reported that #opensolaris-meeting is now open, and has got Drone to log the discussion. He added that he had got an online IRC web client on the OGB community pages. The outstanding items are coordinating the time, getting OGB members to attend, and to discuss the details of what we're going to say during that meeting. John commented that anyone who casts a vote during the election would contribute to quorum, according to the Constitution. He suggested that this was a possible conflict. Alan commented that this would make life much easier. John added that either (or both additively) could be used to count quorum. Rich suggested to take this discussion to the mailing list. Rich asked about the ballot items. Glynn commented that there wasn't a clear process for proposing ballot items, and who would approve them. Rich added that any Member could make a proposal, but a majority needed to approve before it got added. Rich suggested that this majority had to be an OGB majority. Alan suggested that there was a lot of potential items for the ballot, but wasn't sure which ones. Glynn suggested that amendments that made life easier in terms of process for the future should be the ones taking priority. John commented that changing the process could be a double edged sword, specifically around making constitutional changes. John suggested a call to the people submitting those resolutions would be appropriate, and put the onus on them to come up with final texts for the amendments so that they could be put on the ballot paper. If they don't do that, it will just fall on the ground. Rich commented that it was a good idea, and suggested that if someone else wanted to run with the amendment they could do that too. Alan commented that amendment proposals should be available to the membership 10 days prior to the election. John suggested changing the bug state of the proposals to reflect some level of closure. Rich suggested the final wording should be the final comment in the bug. Brian commented that it might be a good idea to get a minimum number of members to support the ballot addition. John commented that there was little time left to allow for this, and and putting the onus on those submitting it would be appropriate. ACTION: Rich to send an email to ogb-discuss about a last call for proposed amendments for the election. Glynn commented that few people had accepted their nomination and asked if there was anyone we should be inviting to run in the election. John commented there was still time to accept. ACTION: Brian to send an email to the current set of election nominees reminding them of the final cut off date to accept that nomination. ACTION: Alan to correct the election calendar for the date for final constitutional amendments. Glynn asked if there was any ground rules for the membership meeting. Alan suggested the OGB (or members with IRC experience) should have channel status to kick any problematic spam. Rich commented that he didn't think any moderation needed to happen. 2) Trademark Status John gave a brief status of the current trademark discussions. He added that the latest discussions were reflected in the text of the wiki document, and has not yet been intensively reviewed by Sun legal but believes it to be 80% ok. The latest version, v14, has included some text from the Ubuntu and Mozilla trademark guidelines. The original intentions of the document haven't changed though, and compatibility is still very much the definition of playing nice with others. John asked the OGB members to participate, and direct the Community Groups in which they were involved to the trademark discussions. Glynn asked if it would be useful to have a one day meeting around of it. John agreed, but it needed to be socialized heavily first so that people were not unprepared. John added that he didn't want to put the OGB in a position of having to ratify this, but welcomed any input from the OGB, or its members. ACTION: John to send out a pointer to the latest trademark draft. Brian asked if the OGB knew what the concerns of the community were, particularly around the name of the community, and whether it would be possible to create a straw poll for this. Steve replied that he would rather do that later, rather than confuse the elections this year. Alan commented that we were running out of time in determining what the questions were, or what the correct wording were, and suggesting it would be best left to the next OGB. John commented that if Brian could come up with wording, then it would be ok, rather than putting it off until the future.
