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Announcement
WHAT: Steering Group Teleconference
WHEN: Monday, June 16, 2008 at 21:00 - 22:00 GMT
- San Francisco: 2pm
- Boston: 5pm
- London: 10pm
- Berlin: 11pm
- Hong Kong: 5am (June 17)
- Tokyo: 6am (June 17)
- Sydney: 7am (June 17)
WHO: Open to any contributors
WHERE:
PRE WORK:
PROPOSED AGENDA:
- Introductions
- Project Status Update (Chris Saad)
- Governance Task Force Draft Presentation (Elias Bizannes)
- add additional topics (+ your name)
MEETING GOALS:
- Gauge the level of acceptance of the proposed draft presented by the Governance Task Force
Minutes
ATTENDEES:
J. Trent Adams (jtrentadams)
Elias Bizannes (elias.bizannes)
John Breslin (johnbreslin)
Dave Rudin (drudin)
Christian Topf (herrtopf)
Steve Greenberg (grenbes)
Brett McDowel (myidiym)
Nick Givotovsky (nrgsphere)
Brady Brim-DeForest (bradybd)
? (9146256670)
? (5104729069)
MINUTES:
A. Project Status Update (Chris Saad) - Chris is unavailable, item skipped.
B. Governance Task Force Draft Presentation (Elias Bizannes)
+ Working Draft: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Governance+taskforce+final+recomendation?showComments=true
+ Lines in red do not have 100% agreement by the Task Force
+ Task Force has absolute consenus on about 75% of the draft
+ Proposal for Steering Group to discuss how to reach a higher level of consensus
John Breslin: 1) can any task force be formed by the action groups alone (i.e. w/o plenary or sg), or does that just fall under one created by the plenary?
Elias: The community can effectively create a Task Force any time they want
John Breslin: "an election is to be held via a process defined by the STEERING GROUP" may need to be tied down, unless it's defined somewhere else I missed...
Elias: These rules still need to be further defined.
John Breslin: 3) I am trying to figure out if Article IV:1 and IV:2 are like the robot laws - does that mean plenary makes decisions on anything that isn't covered by the SG?
Elias: Yes, anything not directly covered by the governance is covered by the Plenary. Plenary can also overule a Steering Group decision with a super majority.
John Breslin: 4) Does Article X:3 simply refer to Article X or to the entire document (if the latter, maybe it should be moved elsewhere)
Elias: The entire document.
Dave Rudin: Is there a cap to the number of Members in the Steering Group?
Elias: Not currently.
Dave Rudin: How do you protect the balance between individual vs. corporate Memberships?
Brett: Many models were explored. As a volunteer body, the TF agreed to go with a simple individual model today and modify if a problem crops up.
Christian Topf: What are the expected roles of the named Officers?
Elias: We ancitipate falling back on Robert's Rules (RONR) to define their roles.
Motion: Elias - Can Steering vote up/down on all the items the Task Force has already agreed up?
[5:35:29 PM] greenbes says: I have to drop off. If it comes to a vote, I vote "no". I think that this document needs one more revision. This isn't a question of making it perfect, it's just not ready yet.
[5:36:13 PM] J. Trent Adams says: Steve - Your "proxy" vote is recorded. Thanks.
VOTE:
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J. Trent Adams (jtrentadams) -
Elias Bizannes (elias.bizannes) +
John Breslin (johnbreslin) +
Dave Rudin (drudin) -
Christian Topf (herrtopf) -
Steve Greenberg (grenbes) -
Brett McDowel (myidiym) +
Nick Givotovsky (nrgsphere) [-] (provisional vote, not counted)
Brady Brim-DeForest (bradybd) -
? (9146256670) []
? (5104729069) []
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YES = 3
NO = 5
MOTION FAILS
Motion: Brett McDowel - Steering Group accepts the work in progress performed by the Governance Task Force, and further work on the governance model is performed by the Steering Group itself.
VOTE:
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J. Trent Adams (jtrentadams) -
Elias Bizannes (elias.bizannes) +
John Breslin (johnbreslin) +
Dave Rudin (drudin) -
Christian Topf (herrtopf) []
Steve Greenberg (grenbes) []
Brett McDowel (myidiym) +
Nick Givotovsky (nrgsphere) [+] (provisional vote, not counted)
Brady Brim-DeForest (bradybd) +
? (9146256670) []
? (5104729069) []
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YES = 4
NO = 2
MOTION PASSED
Elias: Proposes setting up a secondary Steering Group teleconference for next Monday, June 23rd, at 21:00 GMT (as the next regular Steering Group teleconference is at 13:00 GMT the same day).
Elias will send an email to the Steering Group mailing list with the proposed plan of action.
Conference call recording, back channel transcript
Next meetings
- June 23, 2008 - 13:00 GMT
- June 23, 2008 - 21:00 GMT
Feedback on the meeting itself
