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OpenNTF Steering Committee Meeting February 23rd, 2010

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: February 9, 2010
Lotusphere 2010
Conference Call

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: February 1, 2010
Conference Call

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New OpenNTF Steering Committee Members

Congratulations to Bruce Elgort of Elgugi Software and Corey Davis of Conyxys for their election to the OpenNTF Steering Committee. Thanks to all three candidates for making the time and effort to run for this position. We are excited to have Bruce and Corey join the group, and look forward to their participation.

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Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman) absent, Nathan Freeman (acting Chairman), Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Corey Davis, Bruce Lil, Steve Castledine, Angus MacIntyre,

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 6:00 pm ET by Nathan Freeman

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Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman) (absent), Nathan Freeman (acting Chairman), Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine, Angus McIntyre (absent)

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Nathan Freeman

General Business – Peter Tanner

OpenNTF Annual General Meeting – (Details below)
Preliminary agenda created
New agenda will be distributed later today

We need a new chairman – Vince was elected for 6 months
Steering Committee nominations
   We need 2 new members
   We need 4 replacement members (new members

Lotus Awards – Business Partner – 3 valid entries
Individual – 6 nominations

Strategy Working Group – Nathan Freeman

No update at this time.

IP Working Group - John Head

No update at this time.

Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

Year over year, OpenNTF has experienced a 400% increase in the number of releases.

Marketing Working Group – Scott Johnsen

No update at this time.

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Meeting adjourned at 11:45 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting:
   Tuesday, December 19, 2009
   6:00pm – 8:00pm ET
   Hotel: Yacht and Beach Conference Center
   Room/Function Area Name: Cape Code C
Call-in Information

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Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters (absent), Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine, Angus McIntyre (late)

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman

General Business – Vince Schuurman
Lotusphere – preference for times for the OpenNTF sessions
7:00 am Wed. or 5:00 pm Wed.
Preference to evening session, in as early as the week as possible.
       
Strategy Working Group – Nathan Freeman

No update at this time.

IP Working Group - John Head
Discussions with the Eclipse.org group about becoming a non-profit.
Becoming a non-profit costs about $280.
Required to have Officers, accountant, board of directors, paper work, annual filings, etc. $10k/year,
This would likely mean having to charge dues to member companies.
IRS approval also required proving vendor neutrality.

Possibilities for revenue generation include:
Charging steering committee members $1,500
Charging for posts
Charge for Ads

Downsides
Liability for member companies including IBM

Leave this issue open for discussion at future meetings.
       
Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

Starting point will be the OpenNTF Lotus Awards category winners in January.
Posting this on the OpenNTF blog for the winners.

Contest – Nominations in so far include 5 in draft mode, 4 in submitted state.
        4 entries BP
        5 entries for Individual

3 winners per category – 2 finalists and winner
Winners posted on the IBM site
Announced at OGS at the end

We need at least 2 more GPL volunteers for GPL

Current state
Total Committers
6 on Apache side
3 on the GPL side

Technical Committee meeting last week had only 3 attendees, all from IBM.

Catalog work is not finished. This will not be completed this year as the person working on it will not be able to contribute any more time on it this year.

Would like to put source code on OpenNTF so search engines can find them.
Would like to find additional volunteers to help with required work.

Lotusphere session – Agenda organized by Angus and Nathan
This will be a BOF instead of a standard session.

Marketing Working Group – Scott Johnsen
Forum – will be set up
Working group open to anyone.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: THURSDAY, December 17, 2009
11:00 a.m. ET

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Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Nathan Freeman (absent), Ludwig Nastansky (absent), Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine, Angus McIntyre

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman

October 15, 2009 meeting minutes were approved.

General Business – IBM OpenNTF Awards

January 6, 2010: Deadline for submissions
January 17, 2010 through January 21, 2010 – Winners announced at Lotusphere

Eligibility clarification: The sitting members of the Steering Committee are not permitted to personally submit for the Individual award, however their respective companies may submit for the Business Partner award if they are an IBM Business Partner.

Non-profit status – John Head still working on this. No status update this week.

Proposed to move the steering committee meetings to Tuesdays instead of Thursdays.

Resolved: The meeting recordings will no longer be published.

Strategy Working Group – Nathan Freeman

No update at this time.

IP Working Group - John Head

No update at this time.

Technical Committee Update - Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

OpenNTF.org sites statistics
10 months 2009 over 10 months 2008
Page visits up 13%
Unique visitors down 15%

October 2009 over October 2008
Page visits up 46%
Unique visitors up 28%

Both production servers have been updated to 8.5.1

The existing catalog is proprietary, only IBM can access it. A new catalog is being developed by Lotus911 – Target completion is in 2 – 4 weeks.

Gabriella Davis has asked for someone else to perform the Server Administration. This topic will be taken offline and discussed at the next Technical committee meeting.

Chris Toohey has requested a separate development server for the Redbook team.
Prominic can do this if IBM will grant them the license to provide new servers.
This issue will be moved to the Technical Committee meeting for resolution.

Migration of existing projects:
There are 6 GPL projects and 2-3 Apache projects. The process for clearing these is a little complex right now. Peter is going to try to define the process more clearly and simply to help contributors move projects through this process more easily.

Note: The process is time consuming and as such, we would like to have more committers to help move projects through the process.

General meeting at Lotusphere potential agenda topics:
Present the contest winners
2010 Strategic Plan for OpenNTF
Update from the Chairman
Q&A

The full agenda needs to be defined by the Steering committee at a future meeting prior to Lotusphere.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: November 10, 2009 (Note: This is a Tuesday.)
11:00 a.m. ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters (absent), Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine, Angus McIntyre

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman

August 27, 2009 meeting minutes were approved.

General Business – Vince Schuuman

Resolved: Approve membership application from Kalechi Design
Resolved: Approve membership application from Ytria

IP Working Group - Peter Tanner and John Head

Resolved: Accept the OpenNTF Alliance Antitrust policy

Resolved: Accept John Head as DMCA Agent

John Head will start the process for OpenNTF to become a non-profit. John will plan to update the committee on the September 24, 2009 call.

Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

Last 2 weeks
12 blog entries receiving a total of 1,500 hits on PlanetLotus

The OpenNTF Alliance positive feedback from the community as has been posted on various blogs.

Key statistics
Page visits increased by 13% from 1 year ago.
The number of Visitors has not increased. How can we extend the reach?
New releases – 114 releases first 8 months of 2008
New releases - 185 projects first 8 months of 2009

If you remove the 35 IBM projects and the 30 Google Calendar Sync project updates, the number is flat from 2008.

How can we get more people to contribute code and add that code to the catalogs?
(The only new projects are from Pavone & Lotus 911, otherwise all IBM.)
Ideas: Development contest? Prizes? Lotusphere demo? IBM executives? OpenNTF Session, Lotusphere Admission passes? Can this be part of the Lotusphere awards? Booth at Lotusphere? IBM can furnish the Lotusphere passes, but they cannot pay expenses.

Teamstudio will manage the OpenNTF contest as part of their 3rd Annual Spotlight Awards by adding an OpenNTF category to the contest.

Ideas to help market OpenNTF better

• Objective: Every Notes user in the world is looking at the catalog. We need to make it easy for Notes users to view the catalog.
• Video idea – 30 40 second promo and post on YouTube, UKLUG, etc.
• Call for membership – blog entry for new members and new contributors
• Give exposure to items in the catalog to the community
• IP Call to solicit feedback on the contribution process.

New server infrastructure proposal from Gabriella Davis posted on the OpenNTF site. It looks really good. We need to identify the next steps.

What should OpenNTF do at Lotusphere?

• Booth? Managing this is very tough. Although the presence would be good, it is very tough. IBM will pay for the booth. Niklas and Steve will man the booth. This might be a conflict with their obligations for the “Meet the Developer’s” Lab.
• Maybe we could have a table in the “Meet the Developer’s” lab.
• OpenNTF Lounge? Who can arrange this for us? Combined with the “unconference” idea.
• We need to have our annual meeting there. We need a room/session. Generally Assembly. Invite Alliance and non-alliance members. Reserve seating. Pete Jansen can reserve this room.


NOTE: Antitrust is already covered in the Membership Agreement, so accepting this as a stand-alone document is not necessary. The proposal accepting the Antitrust Policy has been withdrawn since it is already part of the Membership Agreement.

We can install client components via drag and drop. Niklas will demo this capability at the next meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen


Next meeting: September 24, 2009
11:00 am ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: August 27, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (absent), Nathan Freeman (Acting Chairman), Ludwig Nastansky (absent), Justin Hill (absent), John Head (absent), Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine

Proceedings:
Due to vacations, the meeting was postponed due to a lack of a quorum.

Summary submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: September 10, 2009
11:00 am ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: August 11, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (absent), Nathan Freeman (Acting Chairman), Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill (absent), John Head, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Nathan Freeman, acting Chairman

Last month’s meeting minutes were approved.

IP Working Group - Peter Tanner and John Head

New IP Process Discussion – All of the documents have been updated. Need feedback on those updates.
New IP Policy
New Contribution Process Document (based on resolutions from July 16 meeting)
Member Agreement and Terms and Conditions of the Web site to keep them within the new IP Policy have been modified

Note: Members Agreement needs to be re-executed by all members.

Comments: Nathan - Contribution Document – In the sentence that begins: “If your project includes code you didn’t develop, you must consult IP manager.” Change “must” to “should”.
        No objections from the committee.

In the sentence that begins: “All notice files for projects that include third party products must be reviewed by the IP Manager.”  Change “must be reviewed” to “…are subject to review …”
        No objections from the committee.


Throughout all of the OpenNTF Alliance documentation, references should not be made to specific products and individuals by name, but rather by product category and role.

Resolved: Accept the Corporate contributor agreement.

Note: The committee would like to formally thank Peter Tanner for all the work put into modifying these documents and to IBM for allowing Peter the time to work on these documents.


We have received 5 new membership applications:
        The Turtle Partnership – Mike Smith
        Conxsys – Corey Davis
        Sherpa Software – Denny Russell
        Czarnowski – John Roling
        Assono – Thomas Bahn
       
Resolved: Approve membership application to all 5 members to the OpenNTF Alliance.

Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

Accomplished since last meeting:

• Blogging about new samples including Eclipse plug-ins, Domino administration tools and widgets.
• Number 1 blog under PlanetLotus for 6 consecutive days.
• Created a YouTube channel – Currently there are 3 videos there.
• Chris Toohey has volunteered to help create videos. Ludwig should contact Chris.
• Created an IdeaSpace for the Discussion project – light feedback so far.  Others can now create their IdeaSpaces.
• Web Site – Download tab with 4 different Release Repositories and the new GPL Catalog.

Questions:

• How do we get people to get their projects in these catalogs?
• How do we approach them?
• How do we tell them what to do and why?

The Technical Committee would like to request more Committers for Apache. We also need a GPL IP Manager and GPL Committers.

General call to action to the community for Committers. Please contact the Technical Committee Chairman, Niklas Heidloff.

NCT Software – Andrew Pollack has no reservations about who has access to it, how it is deployed, etc. This has been provided for free to OpenNTF.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: August 27, 2009
11:00 am ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: July 30, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine, Felicia Sienkiewicz

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman.
Last months meeting minutes were approved.

Resolved – Formally make Steve Castledine the official spokesperson of OpenNTF.org Alliance backed by Steering Committee member  Ludwig Nastansky.

IP Working Group Update - Peter Tanner with an assist from John Head

There is a new IP Policy. The Steering Committee will have 1 week to review and provide comments. If members have no comment, then please comment with no comment. The new policy will first be approved by the Technical Committee and then by the IP Working Group before being brought back to the Steering Committee for approval.

Once this is approved, we will need to execute a new membership agreement for all members.

Ludwig can proceed with adding new entries to the Catalog from IBM and anyone else. Note: The Contributor and the Committer cannot be the same person.

Technical Committee Update - Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

The OpenNTF.org site is running smoothly at this point. The Discussion Template still needs work, but that is proceeding along. The number of new issues is down significantly.
There is a directory for all the Forums. The user can only see the Forums for which they have access
There are two catalogs, one for the Apache license and the other for he GPL license
Task Management system is in place
Wiki is set up to track site changes
Blog is kept up to date
Email is enabled on the site

Still on the to do list:
Get code flowing into the Catalogs
Open up the Catalogs
Upgrade the Servers
Create new test environment
Implement IdeaJam
Clean out projects that have either been abandoned or only point to a Web site
Upgrade new project management system

Note: OpenNTF.org continues to get about 750 new registrations/month

Strategy Working Group Update – Nathan Freeman Working on the Technical Committee Profile Concept specs

Issue: We currently do not have adequate (any?) Administration backup person or procedure. Server Administration, adding new users, etc. We would like to address this issue. Gab Davis and the Turtle Partnership have indicated that they would be interested in providing this service to OpenNTF.org.

Resolved - The Turtle Partnership will be given Admin rights to OpenNTF.org once they have become an Alliance member.

UPDATE: Rob Novak (SNAPPS) has resigned from the OpenNTF.org Steering Committee. However SNAPPS remains an Alliance member of OpenNTF.org.

GROUP Software has indicated a desire to provide OpenNTF.org developers the use of their Domino Server in the Cloud technology. The OpenNTF.org Steering Committee is interested in moving this process forward, and are excited about the opportunity.

Vince Schuurman will be on vacation during our next meeting. Nathan Freeman will be acting Chairman for that meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: August 13, 2009
11:00 am ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: June 18, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Bruce Elgort, Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head (absent), Rob Novack, Brent Peters (absent), Scott Johnsen (absent)

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine

Proceedings: Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman.
Last month’s meeting minutes were approved.

Resolved – Formally make Peter Tanner the IP Manager for OpenNTF.org to approve and process requests for committers and contributors, IT issues, etc.

IP Working Group Update by Peter Tanner

IP Working Group Meeting originally scheduled for June 5 has been rescheduled for Friday, June 19 at 10:00 am ET.

Agenda
# OpenNTF IP Working Group first meeting
# Encourage all to attend
# Licensing will NOT be discussed, this will be deferred until a second meeting
# Copyright discussion of issues relevant to copyright law
# Review the Alliance structure, rules, process for membership by companies and individuals
# How to become a contributor and committer
# Concept of repository
# Project workflow


Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

Resolved to make Steve Castledine and Niklas Heidloff committers to the managed catalog.

Resolved – Language changes to the Contributors agreement
# Contributors will no longer be required to document employers’ permission to provide a waiver
# Contribution document – “contributors give OpenNTF worldwide rights… “ will be dropped from this document.
# Terms of Service for Web sites accessed by widgets is the responsibility of the user

Discussion of who can help where. Niklas provided a list of activities that need to be done. He will set up a meeting with those who volunteered for something the week of June 22.

IBM has 11 widgets that they will post as 11 projects. We would like to get other non-IBM projects posted before IBM posts more projects so Niklas will hold off until then.

Need an infrastructure in order to make the discussion template a project. Specification, release schedule, feature descriptions and other work needs to be defined on OpenNTF. What exists today is very limited. New materials in support of new projects will be posted in a secure area, reviewed by Steering committee.

Strategy Working Group Update – Nathan Freeman
Would like to have more discussion from the Steering Committee members on OpenNTF discussion board.
OpenNTF.org/internal will give a page with pointers to each of the forms.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: July 2, 2009
11:00 am ET

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OpenNTF Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes: June 8, 2009
Conference Call

Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman), Bruce Elgort, Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Rob Novack, Brent Peters, Scott Johnsen

Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve Castledine

Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 10:00 am ET by Vince Schuurman
Last month’s meeting minutes were approved after modification (“IT Working Group” changed to “IP Working Group”)

IP Working Group Update by John Head, Peter Tanner
The group will initially cover 4 topics:

1. Copyright law education

2. Review the Alliance and the Employee Copyright process documents

3. The project workflow on the OpenNTF.org site and provide recommendations to steering committee

4. Licensing

- IP Working Group Meeting originally scheduled for June 5 has been rescheduled for Friday, June 12 at 11:00 ET.

- First order of business is the country of origin must be declared. Although this is open for discussion, the United Kingdom and the United States are the most likely choices. The Country of record for the OpenNTF Alliance will likely be the same as the copyright law of record. Recommendations will be presented to the Steering Committee for the first 3 points above at the June 18 meeting.

- Recommendations for licensing will follow sometime after that

- Resolved to change the current IP language on OpenNTF.org to allow Contributors to post as long as they assert that they have permission from their employer. This was the current intent of the policy, so this change will make the policy more accurate and consistent across policies.

- Resolved to allow at least 2 non-IBM projects posted to the repository prior to finalizing the licensing.

Nathan wants to encourage all the members of the Steering Committee to get involved in the Forum discussions. Everyone should have some comments representing their perspectives on these issues.

Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff & Steve Castledine

- Discussion about a variety of technical tasks and the breakdown of those tasks. Niklas and Steve are looking for more help to move these tasks forward.

- IBM is considering open sourcing the discussion template, which would allow the community to extend it. IBM could then take the extensions back into the product.
Question about why IBM wouldn’t allow all standard templates to be open source.
Answer revolved around how the discussion template could be a model for future templates including the mail template. IBM has not yet committed to this.

- Suggestion for the Strategy group to recommend a Development contest in an effort to make N/D app dev and OpenNTF attractive to new developers. Perhaps some prizes for Lotusphere tickets, expenses, etc.

- Would like to find ways to kick off new projects to encourage more participation. Needs more discussion as part of the Strategy Working Group.

Meeting adjourned at 11:00 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen
Next meeting: June 18, 2009

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Members: Bruce Elgort (acting Chair), Nathan Freeman, Vince Shuurman (absent), Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Rob Novack, Brent Peters (absent), Scott Johnsen Others Present: Peter Tanner, Niklas Heidloff, Steve

Proceedings:

Meeting called to order at 11:00 am ET by Bruce Elgort

Last month’s meeting minutes were approved.

IBM has agreed to allow us to record and make public the recording of the OpenNTF Alliance meetings. Welcome Bruce Elgort, acting Chairman of the OpenNTF Alliance

Elected Scott Johnsen as Secretary of the OpenNTF Alliance.

Meeting Minutes will be published on the OpenNTF.org blog.

IP Working Group Update by John Head, Peter Tanner

- The group will initially cover 4 topics:

Copyright law education Review the Alliance and the Employee Copyright process documents The project workflow on the OpenNTF.org site and provide recommendations to steering committee Licensing

- Recommendations to the working group for the first 3 points above on June 5

- Recommendations for licensing will follow sometime after that

Technical Committee Update by Niklas Heidloff and Steve

- Discussion of the number of projects, project releases, code in the code bin, site statistics and number of licenses used on the OpenNTF.org site.

- Discussion about a new UI for the site, new discussion template and updating the projects.

- Looking for technical help to update the site. (Bruce volunteered to help out.) Strategy Working Group Update – Nathan Freeman

- Communication Policy recommendations are posted in the Strategy Working Group forum

- Discussion about priorities – set a communication policy, define required infrastructure such as working group membership, shared calendars, member profiles, etc.

- Resolved to authorize the Technical Committee (Niklas & Steve) be the public voice of OpenNTF on Social Networking sites (blogs, tweets, etc.) to blog & tweet

- The secretary will have access to the OpenNTF blog to post the meeting minutes

Resolved to make the Chairman of the OpenNTF Alliance the Press Contact of record

Resolved to make the working group discussions databases will have anonymous Reader access and Registered Users Author access until we can distinguish members of a particular working group.

Meeting adjourned at noon ET

Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen

Next meeting: June 4, 2009

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Note: this is not the full final version of the Steering Committees minutes, but simply a summary until such time as the committee is able to prepared detailed minutes from the audio-recording of the call.

Resolved to accept the initial membership
Elected Vince Schuurman as Chairman of the Steering Committee for a period of 6 months
Resolved to make meeting minutes public
Resolved to audio record meeting for archival purposes
Proposal to publish audio recording -- proposal tabled until future date
Resolved to request a report from an independent legal council on the process of establishing a 501(c)(6) NFP Trade association, including costs, risks and resulting benefits.
Resolved to amend Alliance agreement to consider any registered user as eligible for Working Groups
Resolved to permit Steering Committee to limit membership in any given Working Group
Resolved to create an Intellectual Property Working Group for OpenNTF.org, which will address IP and general legal issues.
Resolved that IP Working Group would be limited to Alliance member representatives and any past or current OpenNTF.org project contributor.  (ie: Project Chefs)
Elected John Head as Chair of IP Working Group
Resolved that no further projects will be put in OpenNTF.org Catalog until SC accepts new IP policy and project release model.
Resolved to create a Strategy Working Group for OpenNTF.org, which will be responsible for setting general processes and objectives for the Alliance.
Resolved that Strategy Working Group would be open to all registered users of OpenNTF.org
Elected Nathan Freeman as Chair of Strategy Working Group
Tasked Strategy Working Group with proposing a Communications policy for OpenNTF.org
Tasked Strategy Working Group with proposing a long-term Working Group decision process
Resolved that until the SC has defined a new process, Working Group Chairs will be solely responsible for achieving consensus and creating resulting proposals for the SC.
Resolved to create a Technical Committee that is responsible for the day-to-day operation of OpenNTF.org and the implementation of the SC's decisions
Elected Niklas Heidloff as Chairman of the Technical Committee
Tasked Technical Committee with the creation of  Working Group communications & operational features on OpenNTF.org site
Tasked Technical Committee with continuing site redesigns into the Projects area of the site.
Resolved to permit resolutions to be passed via email from SC membership, with the chair being responsible for official record keeping
Proposed creation of an office of Secretary of the Steering Committee -- proposal tabled until future date.
Resolved to meet again on May 28, 2009 at 11AM ET for 1 hour.

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