[OpenID board] Might Miss the Call
David Recordon
drecordon at sixapart.com
Thu May 8 16:10:57 UTC 2008
> 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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