[OpenID board] Might Miss the Call

[David Recordon]

> About the local chapters policy, we have an agreement from Nat and  
> Snorri that they are good with us approving a local chapters policy  
> based on the current drafts and without language about a national  
> chapters policy.  This is significant progress and would let Europe  
> and Japan become local chapters under a recognized policy.   
> Therefore, I'm going to produce a cleaned-up draft and have us vote  
> on it.  With respect to the IPR, this text isn't a change from our  
> existing approved policy, therefore I don't see this as a blocking  
> issue for approving a local chapters policy that brings everyone  
> into the fold.

That's reasonable, I just don't want us creating a situation of  
approving one policy and then a few weeks later creating another  
related policy.

On May 8, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Mike Jones wrote:

> About the local chapters policy, we have an agreement from Nat and  
> Snorri that they are good with us approving a local chapters policy  
> based on the current drafts and without language about a national  
> chapters policy.  This is significant progress and would let Europe  
> and Japan become local chapters under a recognized policy.   
> Therefore, I'm going to produce a cleaned-up draft and have us vote  
> on it.  With respect to the IPR, this text isn't a change from our  
> existing approved policy, therefore I don't see this as a blocking  
> issue for approving a local chapters policy that brings everyone  
> into the fold.
>
> About the specifications council, the report on the PAPE working  
> group is DUE BY SATURDAY.  Therefore waiting until Monday isn't ok.   
> If Josh has not responded and you try to call him one more time,  
> then you and Johnny should act as the majority and notify the board  
> and Dick and I who the 5 members are today so we can start to work  
> on the report.  We only have 2 days as it is!
>
> Hope to have you on the call.
>
>                                Thanks,
>                                -- Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On  
> Behalf Of David Recordon
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:31 AM
> To: board at openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID board] Might Miss the Call
>
> Hi all,
> I'm currently in Dublin and was planning on making the call via Skype
> though the hotel internet access is quite shoddy.  I'll try to call
> in, but if I don't make it here are my thoughts given the agenda.
>
> * General business (minutes approved, finance update)
> +1 to approving the last set of minutes
>
> * Local chapters policy review and vote - Mike Jones
> It sounds like great progress has been made in the latest draft of the
> policy, though given the current discussion it doesn't feel like we're
> quite there yet.  The two outstanding issues seem to be how to deal
> with "national chapters" and the wording around IP in terms of if we
> can allow Creative Commons licensing to make things simpler.  I am not
> in support of approving the current local chapters policy and then
> later writing a national chapters policy.  Instead I think that we
> should have the local chapters policy address local/national chapters
> so that we have one fewer policy.  As it stands I am -1 for approving
> the current local chapters policy.
>
> * Member election logistics for PAPE working group - Mike Jones
> Not quite sure what this means, if someone is able to clarify before
> the meeting I'll give my thoughts. :)
>
> * Report from specifications council - ?
> Johnny Bufu and I have reached consensus around the five editor
> appointed people for the specs council.  We're still waiting to hear
> back from Josh.  I pinged him about it yesterday and will do so again
> today.  I'm hopeful that we can be done with the council by our
> meeting Monday though we still need to ask the five people if they're
> willing to be on it.
>
> * Amended bylaws
> I was on the call last week along with Bill, Mike, Dave, and David
> around amending the bylaws.  I believe there is now a new draft of
> them which I am -1 for approving.  I am not convinced that a forever
> growing board with a small executive committee is the right structure
> for the Foundation.  I'm hoping that we'll be discussing this next
> Monday during the F2F.
>
> Thanks!
> --David
>
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