XSF Discussion - 2011-07-20

typewithme for board meeting (in 15 minutes) http://typewith.me/KDwssxbanE

wondering if I lost network link

I'm pinged.

thanks :)

loading for me just fine

I was getting 503 for a couple of minutes

I am not having a very good summer it seems

sorry to hear it

how did it get to be July 20 already?!?

hehe - like I need to complain about being busy to you guys ;)

I poked florian, jack seems to be afk

I poked them as well

should've done so 15 minutes ago :)

is there anything to add to the agenda?

or, except for the GSoC book item, will this be a planning meeting

right

seems fine

List Agendas?

Had a brief discussion about that in Council.

Kev: part of planning, perhaps

right

what is List Agendas ?

in the Council meeting, I mentioned that it would be nice for us to send draft agendas 24 hours before the meeting -- to members@ for Board meetings and to standards@ for Council meetings

ah

I need to step out very shortly. I was hoping to lurk, but ...

that would remind everyone that the meeting is happening (including Board and Council members :)

Kev: 's ok

should we start with the planning items? do we have a quorom?

Kev usually sends a Council reminder to the council@ list, and anyone can subscribe to that list (but not post), so it's less necessary but still desirable (I doubt many people know they can subscribe to the council@ list)

I don't think the Board has a quorum

unless Florian, Jack, or Nÿco appears

then we need to consider this a dry run for how meetings will be done going forward

and the latter has not been at a meeting in a few months

IRL is a bitch sometimes

so, we could at least have a discussion about planning for the next meeting :)

k

I like the idea of sending an agenda summary the day before - will require an extra meeting reminder for me but that's a good thing

right

ticklers are good :)

do we try and get the schedule back to a fixed set now?

knowing that going forward some will just be missed

seems like a good idea

I'm strongly in favour of being able to access an agenda for both Board and Council. It doesn't bother me if it lands in my inbox or not - if the Board list was open only sending them there would be fine. It's not, so a web page somewhere would be fine too, or a wiki page, or anything. It doesn't have to be a mail to members if that's not convenient for you, I think.

Council have found it useful having switched to a weekly same time same place system.

I would combine the email with a wiki page I think

weekly seems ok for council as they have much more to talk about weekly

seems a bit overkill for board tho (IMO)

Council meetings can also be quite brief

10 minutes is not unheard of :)

that seems like a good thing

Indeed. Anyway, I need to vanish now. Bibi.

what is the books topic?

I was supposed to send to the gsoc students the books

right

and it completely fell off of my todo list

anything I can help with?

ah ok

so i'm scurrying about now to do that

will be sending them by end of week - need to get mailing addresses

we can ask on the gsoc@xmpp.org list, unless Google has that info

that is part of what the "scurrying about" item covers :/

heh

do we want to consider a new meeting time?

I'm flexible

I'm asking because this timeslot for a wed is turning out to be *very* busy for me

I don't think anyone is strongly attached to this time :)

then i'll post to the list and start the process

I can meet starting around 09:00 Eastern if that's better, but we should check with our European friends

yea, i'm more than willing to make it european friendly just to get it out of this timeslot

sure thing

I'm easy :)

so are we considering meeting weekly like council?

up to you, chief :)

it's easier to remember

and can be brief

i'm game for it - I like the fact it's always the same and will/should be very fast

the Council sometimes decides that it doesn't have any topics to discuss

right

quick meetings are good meetings

k, i'll email the list with this punch list of items that could be changing

super

will put it on the agenda for the next meeting

which, if we keep to our schedule is in 2 weeks

right

August 3

I'll be at IETF81 next week

yea, i'm in toronto for work meetings

that's right

meeting notes seem ok?

yep!

thanks

ok, after this dayjob meeting finishes i'll package them up and email

thanks

no, thank you

hi

damn ... too late

hi Florian

hey stpeter

how are you?

busy summer?

I'm good ... yeah .. busy ... looking for a place to live for next year

always fun

heh, depends on your definition of fun

:p