Fwd: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 6th April 2004

mark kandianis <linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:55:24 -0400

All,
The minutes of the Foundation Call today:
Attendees:
Stuart Anderson
Egbert Eich
Jim Gettys
Georg Greve
Howard Greenwell
Stuart Kreitman
Kevin Martin
Jim McQuillan
Bankim Shah
Leon Shiman
Mark Snitily
Jeremy White

Minutes:
1. Administrative Items
Howard noted to the group that Alan Hourihane has resigned from the Board 
of Directors, and requested his name be removed from the Press Release. 
There are now only 9 active Interim Board Members.

2. Vote to Approve Member Agreement
       Please see the version distributed on Friday 2nd April.
The following points were raised about implementing the member agreement:
a. There should be a Link for Questions that can be submitted in relation 
to the

b. There should also be a link to the security document beside the member 
agreement.

c. Howard agreed to take on the action to create an FAQ to provide a 
commentary about the points in the member agreement - but not this week.
No objections to proceeding to posting the member agreement on the web, 
and opening for membership applications.
Jim made points about formality.

Agreed that everything should be handled by general consensus rather than 
formal votes.

3. Press Release
Following comments on press release were corrected on-line:
-  Remove the word "build" from first sentence.
-  Missing quote from the beginning of Russ Nelson's quote.
-  Egbert would like all his name all on one line.
-  First quote from the board needed to be reworded.
4. Vote to Approve Issuing Press Release
All agreed that the press release can be issued. Needs to wait until 
Egbert/Jim/Keith are happy with the tarballs.
Process for release:
1. get the tarballs in place.
2. Keith send note to Leon to do send out of press release.
3. Wiki page needs to be opened up by Keith for access.
4. Howard will send final press release to Leon. (already done).

5. Vote to Approve Foundation 1st Release
Already completed last week. Jim commented that board should approve that 
release can be made, but not necessarily need to review final release 
being ready.

6. Election Process and Voting Mechanism (Howard)
       Please see the document circulated for March 16th call.
Howard commented that we were now about 2 weeks behind on the original 
schedule. Will update the document for next Tuesday's call, and also draft 
the text for the invitation to be a candidate for the Board. Next week's 
call is all about the election process.

7. AOB
Leon thanked everyone for the energy and effort to get the member 
agreement and press release out.
Jim noted the 20th Anniversary of the X Consortium is on 19th June and 
that the group would like make the next release on that day.
Stuart suggested having a call later in the week. Jim will host and 
announce a call for Thursday to see if any issues about the Press Release 
have been raised.

Howard on vacation - Stuart not available.
Next call on Tuesday 13th at the same time.
Howard.

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