2009 05 07 OGB Agenda

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OpenSolaris Governing Board Conference call details (Admin)
Previous Meeting Agenda for Thursday, May 7, 2009, 9am - 10am PDT Next Meeting

Contents

Procedural

  1. Attendance
  2. Calendar items?
    • test poll later in the year?
  3. AI Review

Business

PT: Review open Bugs Motion to close all these bugs, as we've agreed not to use bugs as a means of tracking agenda items. They're all either under discussion elsewhere, or no longer relevant.
ID Sev Pri Summary
1937 maj P2 OGB 2008/010 Simplifying the structure of the OpenSolaris Community
931 min P4 OGB 2008/009 - Establish regular reports from Projects on their status
932 min P4 OGB 2007/002 Community and Project Reorganisation
933 min P4 OGB 2007/003: Communities with < 3 Core Contributors
1383 nor P4 set of mailing list issues
1920 min P4 OGB Directive to change "leader" to "editor" in web app
2186 min P4 Make some useful SQL queries available for the grants
2246 min P4 Create Emancipation Community Group
PT: Cleanup of Policies Page Motion that, if the bugs be all closed out, that the list of bugs be removed from the policies page [1] and that 2007/002 and 2007/003 be struck from the list of policies under discussion, as we aren't discussing them for future approval at all.
PT: Reports at C1 [2] Motion: that we invite collectives (community groups, projects, and user groups) to submit reports highlighting their recent achievements (over the last year). The reports to take the form of a single powerpoint slide (pictures are good), or text we can massage to that form. We will create a single amalgamated presentation and put each page on a display board at C1.

This would also lay the groundwork for regular community reports which we would seek to receive from all collectives on a regular basis in the future. (See OGB 2009/006)
Initials: wiki link title wiki link

Current Items

  1. C1 Town hall logistics and content
  2. Polling system (ease of vote...) thread...
  3. Plocher/Simon: Charter update, preamble draft, next draft constitution iteration
  4. OGB CG contributor nominations, see [3]
  5. OGB Suggestion wiki, see [4] - have we announced this? (VF 28 Apr 09)
  6. core-contrib-discuss: should the alias be live year round? (VF 4 May 2009)

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. [5]
  • 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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