2009 11 05 OGB Agenda

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OpenSolaris Governing Board Conference call details (Admin)
US: USA 866-692-3163 Participant: 369253265#
UK: 0808-238-6025
Sun Extention: x44414
Previous Meeting Agenda for Thursday, November 5 2009, 9am - 10:00am PDT Next Meeting

Contents

Procedural

  1. Calendar items?
  2. AI Review
    • Valerie: send mail with writeup of in memoriam web page for site and process for adding to it
    • Michelle to send 1-pager to Bonnie's team for polling UI
    • Michelle to post new draft of project instantiation
    • Michelle to forward constitution review email to facilitators
    • Plocher to make agreed first set of minor changes to constitution draft on co-ment
    • Peter to file bug for observability revitalization
    • Revise OGB Group Lifecycle Administrative Procedures -- Michelle
    • Revise OGB Electorate Membership Process -- Deirdré
    • Revise OGB Group Management Guidelines -- Michelle
    • Revise OGB Censure, Suspension and Expulsion Process - Valerie, JBeck
    • Revise OGB Constitutional Amendment Process - Jim
    • Revise OGB_2008/007 Policy on private OGB discussions - JBeck
    • AI for CG cleanup?
    • DS Message to web team?
    • DS Contributer grants: On Hold until notice from Bonnie about database work complete
    • DS Contributer grants (bugs need to be be filed for all of these)
      • Bug for Observability grants?
      • Documentation: michelle (core contributor)
      • Storage: CC grants: jforte??
      • LDoms (bug 11088)
      • SysAdmin (bug 11089)
      • Printing (bug 11199)
      • HPC (bug 11200)

Business

Simon/Jim Oracle World and OSDevCon conference updates?
Peter/Michelle OGB web page editing and leader updates; Games CG web page updates volunteer: Alta
All Constitutional discussion http://www.co-ment.net/text/1506/ and http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115097&tstart=0
Tribble Issues with structure (Membership and Groups) http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=114992&tstart=0

Nutshell: With fine grained collectives (1 or 2 people), we would - by necessity - get a proliferation of "Leaders". Since "Leaders" > "Contributers", we will also have a proliferation of "have not contributed anything yet, but needed to become a Leader to start a project" people who could become members of the Electorate...
The current Constitution requires that a new CG be started by 3 existing Leaders to avoid this problem, but says nothing about Projects...
Moving Governance completely away from Leadership is one way to solve this problem, but at the expense of taking the local collectives out of the loop WRT contributions and Contributor awards.

Current Items

Suggestion Box Review == OGB 2009-2010 Suggestion Box ==

This OGB Suggestion Box wiki is available to any OpenSolaris user that has suggestions, ideas, concerns or solutions that they would like the OGB to consider. Please use the following procedure to enter your suggestions or solutions:

  • Indicate status (Unreviewed initially)
Unreviewed OGB Reviewing Action Taken Reviewed Review Again
  • Increment suggestion number
  • Enter Date
  • Enter Submitter name or OpenSolaris username or anonymous
  • Enter Suggestion
  • Comments field can be used to comment on a suggestion and indicate what related actions were taken


Status Number Date Submitter Suggestion Comments
Action Taken 1 4 May 2009 John Plocher To make voting easier, replace the ssh based poll.os.o election system with a web based one that keys off of the member's os.o login auth info. Need to involve sch and tonic team, need to articulate needs/requirements, request consultation. MO to procure a "request template", JP to fill out. Done, website team working on UI, JW tracking.
Action Taken 2 6 May 2009 James Carlson Since the distinction between Core and non-Core Contributor is voting, you could make it a use-it-or-lose it franchise; those not voting in (say) 2 or more consecutive elections become Contributors, and need to be re-nominated for Core Contributorship. No ability to do this in the current constitution. JP Added to "new constitution" feedback.
OGB Reviewing 3 9 May 2009 Peter Tribble Need a mechanism to alert members and facilitators when membership grants are due to expire. People shouldn't have to manually poll. JP to look into y!Pipe stuff to highlight, ??? to look into how to do more active alerts, maybe use facilitators project and monthly report of new/expiring/expired grants, maybe automate in cron?
Action Taken 4 14 May 2009 Mail Man Admins/mods should moderate their mail queues and read the manual for list operation. List users should read the manual, too, and either subscribe to the lists or take the issue up with the list owners instead of wasting time with cyclical rants about how lists persecute the little people. World peace would be nice as well. JW provided a list of email list best practice areas to the website community, MO to add to website community FAQ
Action Taken 5 12 June 2009 Garrett D'Amore Should have an in memoriam page and status to recognize contributors who have passed. Complete, see http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/In+Memoriam
Unreviewed ... add new suggestions here...

OGB_future_agenda_items

Any OpenSolaris Member may submit items for a future OGB agenda by adding the item to this OGB future agenda items wiki page. OGB Members or the OGB Secretary may add any item on this list to the agenda for the next meeting if they believe those items to be sufficiently mature.
"Sufficiently mature" items will:
  • have been socialised among the OGB,
  • have an OGB "sponsor"
  • have a motion or discussion brief prepared on a wiki page, together with a summary of the discussion to date,
  • be ready for a discussion likely to lead to significant progress or a definitive decision at the OGB meeting.
Date Added Who What
10 June, 2009 Plocher/Simon Charter update, preamble draft, next draft constitution iteration Talk:OGB_2008/010_OpenSolaris_Constitution_2009
10 June, 2009 Plocher Need a mechanism to alert members and facilitators when membership grants are due to expire. People shouldn't have to manually poll. Look into y!Pipe stuff to highlight, how to do more active alerts, maybe use facilitators project and monthly report of new/expiring/expired grants, maybe automate in cron?
13 May, 2009 Plocher draft best practices for mail man list moderation settings, draft a new policy related to list moderation (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=102430&tstart=0)
10 June, 2009 Michelle update website FAQ based on Plocher's best practices
April 30, 2009 Deirdré twitter
April 30, 2009 Plocher look into a way to turn on/off archival setting on pages for agenda.
  • Wikipedia has "Protected" pages of several flavors. I'm checking with Al Hopper to see if Genunix has this feature. [1]
  • Start with old agendas, move on to policies
17 March, 2010 gat Request for new information on new releases to be published on the opensolaris main sites.

Most major open source operating systems release apha, beta, and release candidate information to allow users to test the new release. Also, simply to let users interact with the production system. This is an important feature of non-(Apple,)Microsoft operating systems. I think that both opensolaris.org and opensolaris.com should both feature more of this type of information. When the month that the new release comes (after the extra month of being withheld) videos demonstrating how new the 2009.06 release is should not be seen on opensolaris.com. It just seems that attention is only given to the current release on the websites, with the exception of genunix.org. This seems odd because it is almost falsely advertising that the stuff that was new then hasn't been improved, nor new stuff added.

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