2009 05 14 OGB Agenda

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	OpenSolaris Governing Board	Conference call details (Admin) US: USA 866-692-3163 Participant: 4036061#
Previous Meeting	Agenda for Thursday, May 14, 2009, 9am - 10am PDT	Next Meeting

Contents 1 Procedural 2 Business 3 Current Items 4 OGB_future_agenda_items

Procedural

1. Attendance
2. Adopt minutes of last meeting
3. Calendar items?
4. AI Review
   • DS to find rooms for both the OGB member luncheon and townhall (Lulu's suggested)
   • DS Contributer grants
     • Pending:
       • http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=8573 (FM) is NOT done, pending receipt of usernames. (MO: I updated the bug on May 6th with the usernames I could find)
       • Tim Foster (timf) Contributor grant in Advocacy CG (have we got email from him about policy 2009/007? VAF: not necessary as it is just a contributor grant)
   • Plocher to create wiki page for collection of feedback on new constitution
     • Done: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:OGB_2008/010_OpenSolaris_Constitution_2009
   • Peter to close existing OGB bugs per approval of motion last week and cleanup related OGB web pages
   • Peter to send around a draft announcement about C1 reports (done.)
   • Valerie to talk to tonic-ops about a cron job for core-contrib-discuss (done)
   • Simon to create wiki page for roles aliases (done - OGB Role Aliases)

Business

OGB list moderation. Who should own/moderate these lists? VAF

OGB CG contributor nominations, see [1] MO

C1 Town hall logistics and content, see [2] MO

Current Items

1. Polling system (ease of vote...) thread...
2. Plocher/Simon: Charter update, preamble draft, next draft constitution iteration
3. C1 Announcements? Publicity? (VF)
4. OGB Suggestion wiki review, see [3]
5. Project instantiation document updates? (MO) see [4] and [5]

OGB_future_agenda_items

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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.

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Date Added	Who	What
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.
23 March, 2010	gtirloni	Community Reports on a Quarterly basis. Releasing the community/status reports more frequently would increase awareness about the project ongoing activities both inside and outside the community. Projects could detail their last accomplishments as well as ask for help where needed. It would also provide visibility for people involved in the projects which helps improve motivation and gather new volunteers.