[OpenStack Foundation] Board Meeting - June 27th
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting The first action item was approving a minor amendment to the Foundation's Certificate of Incorporation to correct an error in the 10th article covering the disposal of assets should the Foundation corporate entity ever be dissolved. The Board unanimously approved the amendment. After that, Lauren Sell briefly introduced a draft Transparency Policy that she had been working on with our legal counsel and the Transparency Committee. There will be a mailing list discussion to finalize the Policy before it's adopted. Next Lauren and Mark Collier provided an update on the November summit in Hong Kong as well as some of the preliminary venue searches for the 2014 summits. They also discussed the activities of the Marketing Community (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing). If you are involved in marketing with an OpenStack organization, I'd encourage you to join the Marketing Community and help out with some of the initiatives that are underway there. Alice King, Nissa Strottman and Steve Pentlicki of the Legal Affairs Committee led a discussion on potential options for patent cooperation among OpenStack organizations. Board members are going to follow up with their individual legal and IP departments to provide feedback on the options presented. The Board approved adding Van Lindberg to the Legal Affairs Committee to replace Alice King who is stepping down as she starts her own law practice. Many thanks to Alice, who has provided legal guidance for OpenStack since the very beginning and was a leader of the drafting committee last year as the Foundation was established. As the meeting wrapped up, the Board had brief updates on the continuing discussion around definition of core and status updates on a number of other items that are being scheduled for discussion at the next Board meetings. The next Board meeting is scheduled for August 6th at 9:00am PDT/1600 UTC. Jonathan
On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 07:10 -0500, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting
Thanks Jonathan, here's my notes from the meeting: http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2013/06/29/june-27th-openstack-foundation-boar... Cheers, Mark.
Thank you for the notes Mark. One concern that I have is your statement "Directors agree to refrain from commenting on the meeting proceedings until Jonathan posts his summary. The only official record of the meeting is Jonathan's summary and the official minutes.". This should have a timelimit on it. Similar to what most large purchases (except automobiles have), Jonathan's summary must be made available within 3 business days. If it is not available within that time frame, then the Directors should be free to comment. Said meeting minutes from Jonathan made visible on the web site. Otherwise this poses an undue hardship to the Directors and the OpenStack followers. Thanks & Regards Raja Srinivasan E: raja.srinivasan@riverbed.com P: +1(408) 598-1175 -----Original Message----- From: Mark McLoughlin [mailto:markmc@redhat.com] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:06 AM To: Jonathan Bryce Cc: foundation@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Board Meeting - June 27th On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 07:10 -0500, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardM eeting
Thanks Jonathan, here's my notes from the meeting: http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2013/06/29/june-27th-openstack-foundation-boar... Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Foundation mailing list Foundation@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
kinda sad to see that nobody addressed PRISM... :( On 06/29/2013 06:15 PM, Raja Srinivasan wrote:
Thank you for the notes Mark.
One concern that I have is your statement "Directors agree to refrain from commenting on the meeting proceedings until Jonathan posts his summary. The only official record of the meeting is Jonathan's summary and the official minutes.". This should have a timelimit on it. Similar to what most large purchases (except automobiles have), Jonathan's summary must be made available within 3 business days. If it is not available within that time frame, then the Directors should be free to comment. Said meeting minutes from Jonathan made visible on the web site. Otherwise this poses an undue hardship to the Directors and the OpenStack followers.
Thanks& Regards Raja Srinivasan E: raja.srinivasan@riverbed.com P: +1(408) 598-1175
-----Original Message----- From: Mark McLoughlin [mailto:markmc@redhat.com] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:06 AM To: Jonathan Bryce Cc: foundation@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] Board Meeting - June 27th
On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 07:10 -0500, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardM eeting
Thanks Jonathan, here's my notes from the meeting:
http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2013/06/29/june-27th-openstack-foundation-boar...
Cheers, Mark.
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I also wanted to take the opportunity to thank Alice King for all of her contributions to OpenStack over the years. Many of you may know that she led the drafting committee, who helped craft our bylaws, as well as leading the legal affairs committee after the Foundation was formed. However, you may not be aware that she was instrumental in the early stages of openstack, even before it had a name (she helped us with the name, in fact) including the search for a suitable license (Apache 2.0 ftw!). While I'm at it I'll give a shout out to Sabina Jausovec who also did a huge amount of work to support OpenStack from a legal perspective. Mark On Friday, June 28, 2013 7:10am, "Jonathan Bryce" <jonathan@openstack.org> said:
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting
The first action item was approving a minor amendment to the Foundation's Certificate of Incorporation to correct an error in the 10th article covering the disposal of assets should the Foundation corporate entity ever be dissolved. The Board unanimously approved the amendment.
After that, Lauren Sell briefly introduced a draft Transparency Policy that she had been working on with our legal counsel and the Transparency Committee. There will be a mailing list discussion to finalize the Policy before it's adopted. Next Lauren and Mark Collier provided an update on the November summit in Hong Kong as well as some of the preliminary venue searches for the 2014 summits. They also discussed the activities of the Marketing Community (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing). If you are involved in marketing with an OpenStack organization, I'd encourage you to join the Marketing Community and help out with some of the initiatives that are underway there.
Alice King, Nissa Strottman and Steve Pentlicki of the Legal Affairs Committee led a discussion on potential options for patent cooperation among OpenStack organizations. Board members are going to follow up with their individual legal and IP departments to provide feedback on the options presented. The Board approved adding Van Lindberg to the Legal Affairs Committee to replace Alice King who is stepping down as she starts her own law practice. Many thanks to Alice, who has provided legal guidance for OpenStack since the very beginning and was a leader of the drafting committee last year as the Foundation was established.
As the meeting wrapped up, the Board had brief updates on the continuing discussion around definition of core and status updates on a number of other items that are being scheduled for discussion at the next Board meetings.
The next Board meeting is scheduled for August 6th at 9:00am PDT/1600 UTC.
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+1 to Alice and Sabina. regards, AlanClark
On 7/3/2013 at 09:10 AM, "Mark Collier" <mark@openstack.org> wrote:
I also wanted to take the opportunity to thank Alice King for all of her contributions to OpenStack over the years.
Many of you may know that she led the drafting committee, who helped craft our bylaws, as well as leading the legal affairs committee after the Foundation was formed.
However, you may not be aware that she was instrumental in the early stages of openstack, even before it had a name (she helped us with the name, in fact) including the search for a suitable license (Apache 2.0 ftw!). While I'm at it I'll give a shout out to Sabina Jausovec who also did a huge amount of work to support OpenStack from a legal perspective.
Mark
On Friday, June 28, 2013 7:10am, "Jonathan Bryce" <jonathan@openstack.org> said:
Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting. The agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting
The first action item was approving a minor amendment to the Foundation's Certificate of Incorporation to correct an error in the 10th article covering the disposal of assets should the Foundation corporate entity ever be dissolved. The Board unanimously approved the amendment.
After that, Lauren Sell briefly introduced a draft Transparency Policy that she had been working on with our legal counsel and the Transparency Committee. There will be a mailing list discussion to finalize the Policy before it's adopted. Next Lauren and Mark Collier provided an update on the November summit in Hong Kong as well as some of the preliminary venue searches for the 2014 summits. They also discussed the activities of the Marketing Community (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing). If you are involved in marketing with an OpenStack organization, I'd encourage you to join the Marketing Community and help out with some of the initiatives that are underway there.
Alice King, Nissa Strottman and Steve Pentlicki of the Legal Affairs Committee led a discussion on potential options for patent cooperation among OpenStack organizations. Board members are going to follow up with their individual legal and IP departments to provide feedback on the options presented. The Board approved adding Van Lindberg to the Legal Affairs Committee to replace Alice King who is stepping down as she starts her own law practice. Many thanks to Alice, who has provided legal guidance for OpenStack since the very beginning and was a leader of the drafting committee last year as the Foundation was established.
As the meeting wrapped up, the Board had brief updates on the continuing discussion around definition of core and status updates on a number of other items that are being scheduled for discussion at the next Board meetings.
The next Board meeting is scheduled for August 6th at 9:00am PDT/1600 UTC.
Jonathan _______________________________________________ Foundation mailing list Foundation@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation
participants (6)
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Alan Clark
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Jonathan Bryce
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Mark Collier
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Mark McLoughlin
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michael hempel
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Raja Srinivasan