XSF Discussion - 2010-09-07


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  23. jack

    meeting is now or in an hour?

  24. Florian

    it was supposed to be now

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  26. Florian

    stpeter, you there?

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  28. Florian

    I guess we're still missing Will?

  29. Nÿco

    hi

  30. Nÿco

    lag test

  31. Florian

    pong

  32. Nÿco

    sorry

  33. Neustradamus

    hi

  34. Nÿco

    jack, stpeter: are you available?

  35. jack

    I'm here

  36. stpeter

    aha

  37. Florian

    :)

  38. stpeter

    I didn't realize I was here

  39. stpeter

    just got back from an early lunch

  40. stpeter

    no meeting in my calendar

  41. stpeter

    etc. :)

  42. Nÿco

    so wanna have that meeting or not?

  43. Florian

    +1 from me

  44. jack

    I'm game

  45. Nÿco

    what does that meea

  46. Nÿco

    mean?

  47. Florian

    he's up for it :)

  48. jack

    +1

  49. stpeter

    +1 here

  50. Florian

    so I guess just Will is missing...

  51. Nÿco

    ok

  52. Nÿco

    http://typewith.me/dU7MWvDIav

  53. Nÿco

    Agenda: - New Website? - Sponsors? - Roadmap update? - GSoC? - Elections? Sidenote: - Fix Calendar.

  54. Nÿco

    wanna add/remove an item?

  55. Florian

    Mini Summits

  56. jack

    how's the new website being received so far?

  57. Nÿco

    Will can answer?

  58. stpeter

    seems good, but I don't have real feedback

  59. Florian

    yeah, after some first issues, I guess it's working quite well

  60. Florian

    the next step is just to grow the content

  61. Nÿco

    maintain would be a priority

  62. stpeter

    e.g. I noticed that http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/history/ is a bit stale :)

  63. Florian

    yeah ...

  64. Florian

    was there any progress with getting the editorial team on board?

  65. jack

    do we have a page of which pages need the most work?

  66. jack

    then maybe we can get some people to work on them

  67. Florian

    I don't think there is one at the moment, but I'm sure we can get a list together

  68. Nÿco

    the CommTeam is quite asleep

  69. Nÿco

    maybe mostly because of me

  70. Florian

    ok, maybe send round a mail on the members list to have a few people give feedback on what content needs updating

  71. stpeter

    yes

  72. Florian

    and then let the CommTeam to get cracking on that?

  73. Nÿco

    sure

  74. Nÿco

    I don't think 'let' is the right attitude, we may better 'animate' it, r something similar

  75. stpeter

    I have a short list of issues I've discovered

  76. Florian

    ok...

  77. Florian

    maybe a Wiki page?

  78. Nÿco

    ah, please e-mail them to Will, or to the list?

  79. Nÿco

    Wiki for tracking?

  80. Florian

    yeah

  81. Florian

    list of all pages that are outdated, need fixing

  82. Florian

    that way we can keep track of what's done and what isn't

  83. Florian

    easier than thousands of E-mails

  84. Florian

    with duplicates

  85. stpeter

    true

  86. Nÿco

    (we have the JIRA instance)

  87. Nÿco

    why not

  88. Florian

    all the members have write acess to the wiki

  89. Florian

    as they applied through it

  90. stpeter

    let's update http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/CommTeam while we're at it, too

  91. stpeter selects "edit"

  92. Nÿco

    ok then

  93. jack

    on sponsorship front, do we have any new ones? I'm pretty sure Collecta is going to kick in some

  94. stpeter

    http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SiteIssues

  95. stpeter

    I need to follow up with ISOC

  96. Florian

    I contacted Voxeo

  97. Florian

    haven't heard back from them

  98. jack

    I saw that thread. hopefully something will come of that

  99. stpeter

    I know a few folks at Voxeo

  100. Florian

    nor from Nokia

  101. Florian

    what about setting up an E-mail adress sponsors@xmpp.org ?

  102. Florian

    afair that was mentioned somewhere

  103. jack

    for what purpose?

  104. Florian

    communications to sponsors

  105. jack

    just an alias to send out updates?

  106. Florian

    and receive replies

  107. Nÿco

    what if recepients change?

  108. Florian

    and that

  109. Florian

    i.e. sponsors@ can always point to the existing board

  110. jack

    ok. makes sense

  111. Nÿco

    why not just use board

  112. Nÿco

    ?

  113. Florian

    because it's a mailinglist

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  115. Nÿco

    and?

  116. stpeter

    we had a sponsors@xmpp.org list for communication with and among sponsors, but we never really used it

  117. Florian

    only members of it can post to it

  118. Nÿco

    we can reconfigure that?

  119. Florian

    I wouldn't go for a mailinglist

  120. Florian

    because we also want to send out invoices through that I guess

  121. Nÿco

    I would, but ok

  122. Florian

    and payment details

  123. Nÿco

    they can originate from any e-mail addresse?

  124. stpeter

    hmm

  125. Florian

    it's not as easy to keep track for the other company

  126. stpeter

    we just need better contact information for each sponsoring company

  127. Florian

    a single contact adress / reply-to address

  128. stpeter

    e.g., responsible individual, phone number, etc.

  129. Nÿco

    ok

  130. Nÿco

    my point was against the multipicity of contact points

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  132. Nÿco

    but ok, let's write that in the minutes

  133. stpeter

    multiplicity at each sponsor, or multiplicity from the XSF side?

  134. Florian

    XSF side

  135. Nÿco

    (separated the agenda from the minutes)

  136. stpeter

    ah

  137. stpeter

    well

  138. Florian

    and having an official contact address makes it look a lot less like Spam :)

  139. stpeter

    different people have different contacts, so it's OK to have multiple contacts, but perhaps we should all cc a common alias like sponsors@

  140. Florian

    yeah

  141. Florian

    and I would even say send from that alias

  142. jack

    +1 on sending from the alias

  143. Florian

    It just makes us look a lot less like we're trying to scam peopel

  144. Florian

    *people

  145. stpeter

    hmm

  146. Florian

    otherwise, it might look a bit like the "You're great uncle in Zimbabwe died, please send many munies here."

  147. stpeter

    well, if you have a personal contact at Voxeo or ISOC or whatever, then I say use that contact for communication to establish the relationship -- but we can send "invoices" and reminders from sponsors@xmpp.org -- is that what you're suggesting?

  148. Florian

    yes

  149. stpeter

    ok

  150. stpeter

    +1 then

  151. Florian

    and on top of that ... for companies like Nokia

  152. Nÿco

    want to PGP-sign?

  153. Florian

    where you get redirected to other departments etc.

  154. Florian

    I mean, personal contacts are personal contacts

  155. Florian

    but for any other companies

  156. Florian

    sponsors@xmpp.org just looks a lot more legit.

  157. stpeter

    yep

  158. stpeter

    now we'll need to figure out how to make that happen

  159. Florian

    right

  160. Florian

    I guess incomming is alias to the board members

  161. Florian

    and outgoing, we need an SMTP account on the mail server?

  162. Florian

    or even an IMAP inbox?

  163. stpeter

    well

  164. stpeter

    possible

  165. stpeter

    I'm not a mail guru :)

  166. Nÿco

    we can write our requirements for the infra department to implement? ;-)

  167. Florian

    :D

  168. stpeter

    for editor@xmpp.org, mail is sent by scripts and received via an alias that goes only to me but could go to others, too

  169. Florian

    they'll be glad :D

  170. Florian

    but yeah, I guess we will find some way

  171. Nÿco

    ok

  172. Nÿco

    next agenda item?

  173. Nÿco

    or still sponsors?

  174. Florian

    well, I guess in regards to sponsors ...

  175. Florian

    let's try to get some :)

  176. Nÿco

    next item would be: "Roadmap update?"

  177. Nÿco

    ah, good point! ;-)

  178. Florian

    so yeah, I'd say next item?

  179. stpeter

    http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/xsf-roadmap/

  180. stpeter

    ?

  181. Nÿco

    last meeting notes:

  182. Nÿco

    - Roadmap update Need to discuss with everyone (Board, Council, members, community) Set broader technical priorities These can be presented to sponsors, too

  183. Florian

    ok, so maybe once we have some sponsors on board

  184. Nÿco

    maybe we need to increase the importance/emergency of spam fighting

  185. stpeter

    it seems that a discussion on the members@ list would be a good place to start

  186. Florian

    see what they'd like to see?

  187. Florian

    and then have a joint meeting with the council?

  188. Florian

    and yes, members of course :)

  189. Nÿco

    members yes, but also maybe a broader range of users/developpers/admins?

  190. Nÿco

    a call for comments on the roadmpa update on our blog?

  191. stpeter

    I'll kick off a discussion on the members list

  192. Nÿco

    ok, thx

  193. stpeter

    hmm

  194. Florian

    I'd say the blog later

  195. stpeter

    I would hope that we have pretty good representation on the member list

  196. Florian

    once we have some suggestions to begin with

  197. stpeter

    we can use that to come up with some priorities

  198. stpeter

    yeah, what Florian said :)

  199. Nÿco

    this would have 2 goals: 1/ get feedback 2/ get more people implied in the XSF processes

  200. Nÿco

    agree with the blog article being posted later, when we have something consistent

  201. Florian

    sounds good

  202. Florian

    so who is going to send out a mail to the members@ ?

  203. Nÿco

    s

  204. Nÿco

    ...tpeter

  205. stpeter

    yep, me

  206. stpeter

    I started writing it already

  207. Nÿco

    lightning fast...

  208. stpeter

    sometimes

  209. Nÿco

    you already have feedback???

  210. stpeter

    other times, deathly slow

  211. Florian

    heh :)

  212. Florian

    ok ... next item then?

  213. stpeter

    yep

  214. Nÿco

    yep

  215. MiGri

    yep

  216. Nÿco

    g.s.o.c.

  217. stpeter

    aha

  218. stpeter

    bear can tell us about that

  219. Nÿco

    bear?

  220. stpeter

    I think it went well, but he knows all

  221. bear

    yes?

  222. bear

    it went very well

  223. Florian

    GSoC?

  224. bear

    active participation in community by 3 of the 4

  225. bear

    code has landed and I need to get it bundled to put out onto the gsoc repos

  226. bear

    so a very good but quiet GSoC

  227. bear

    no drama or other non-coding issues

  228. stpeter

    good, I don't like drama

  229. bear

    and unless one of the euro centered mentors wants to go to the event, I don't think we will be sending anyone

  230. stpeter

    one piece of feedback: it would be helpful to require implementation reports of some kind from students before their projects are considered complete (this helps us to improve the XEPs)

  231. bear

    we tried to poke in that direction

  232. bear

    but that's a feedback for myself - be much more forceful next time

  233. stpeter

    well, we could tell them that they won't receive the money without an implementation report :)

  234. bear

    i'll bring that up with Kev this weekend - I need to get with him for end-of-project closeup

  235. Nÿco

    do you want to write another blogpost?

  236. bear

    yes - working on the words - they come slower for me than you guys :)

  237. Nÿco

    ok

  238. Nÿco

    next item? elections?

  239. Florian

    next up ... elections?

  240. Nÿco

    ;-)

  241. Nÿco

    not much candidates, we must encourage, challenge the candidates

  242. Nÿco

    in order to have good ones

  243. Florian

    I guess the date is set to the 30th for applications

  244. Florian

    and then until the 15th of October for voting?

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  246. Nÿco

    is there a need?

  247. Nÿco

    we cant' postpone all elections periods like that

  248. stpeter

    yeah I will poke some more people

  249. stpeter

    in years past we had the application period in August but people were on vacation

  250. stpeter

    so last year candidates wrote their "position papers" in September, that worked better I think

  251. Nÿco

    ok...

  252. Nÿco

    http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Board_and_Council_Elections_2010 create/update yours!

  253. Nÿco

    next item? Mini summits?

  254. Florian

    yes

  255. Florian

    I think, looking at the time, and seeing as Will is not here ... table it?

  256. Florian

    next meeting?

  257. Florian

    unless everyone wants to talk about it now

  258. stpeter

    OK I posted to members@ about the roadmap and to commteam@ about the site issues page

  259. jack

    +1 to tabling for now

  260. Florian

    +2

  261. stpeter

    tabling for now is fine with me

  262. Florian

    ok

  263. Florian

    then just ... next meeting?/

  264. stpeter ponders standing for the Council again

  265. Nÿco

    Next meeting: 2010-09-21, same place, same time

  266. Nÿco

    ?

  267. stpeter

    WFM

  268. Florian

    WFM

  269. Florian

    ah

  270. Nÿco

    http://typewith.me/dU7MWvDIav <<< please review, edit, add, remove, etc.

  271. Florian

    actually ..

  272. Florian

    yeah

  273. Florian

    will work

  274. jack

    WFM

  275. Florian

    note: Please add this to the calendar

  276. jack

    see you guys online

  277. Florian

    whoever can :)

  278. Nÿco

    can we put that item in the XSF cal?

  279. stpeter

    oh sorry I missed the minutes page

  280. Nÿco

    thx all

  281. Florian

    yup, thx guys

  282. stpeter

    yes I will update the calendar, easy enough

  283. Nÿco

    thx

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  285. Nÿco

    you can review it now

  286. Nÿco

    who's gonna post to the ML?

  287. Florian

    ah

  288. Florian

    quick question

  289. Florian

    as I've just got some replies from voxeo

  290. Florian

    Sponsorship start date?

  291. Florian

    asap?

  292. Florian

    or should we group a few together?

  293. Florian

    i.e. 1. November?

  294. stpeter

    hmm

  295. stpeter

    1 January (calendar year)?

  296. stpeter

    that seems perhaps easier to track

  297. Florian

    ok

  298. Florian

    but that's quite far away from now

  299. Florian

    and sometimes, some companies prefer to have the sponsorship at the end of the year (remaining funds in projects)

  300. stpeter

    true

  301. Florian

    and I guess we'll be accepting Sponsors throughout the year (at least according to our website)

  302. stpeter

    right

  303. stpeter

    we accept at any time

  304. Florian

    so I guess October might be a bit too short

  305. stpeter

    but then the question is, when would we ask them to renew?

  306. Florian

    but by November, we should have a good lineup of all new sponsors

  307. Florian

    12 months

  308. stpeter

    ok

  309. stpeter

    that's fine

  310. Florian

    and I guess we'll always tell them to start on the 1st of some month

  311. Florian

    just for easier management

  312. stpeter

    yes

  313. stpeter

    exactly

  314. Florian

    so yeah, sponsors can join every month

  315. Florian

    and we'll launch our first batch in November?

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  317. stpeter

    Florian: do we really need to batch them?

  318. stpeter

    hi will

  319. Florian

    hey will.sheward

  320. will.sheward

    shamefaced will has joined the meeting

  321. Florian

    I guess the site would look a bit strange with just one sponsor

  322. will.sheward

    must remember to attend meetings that i suggest

  323. will.sheward

    do we just have one?

  324. Florian

    so I'd like to have at least a few (3?) to launch it

  325. Florian

    we just had :)

  326. will.sheward

    what about the people hosting the site who would be payment in kind sponsors?

  327. Florian

    ah right

  328. stpeter

    brb

  329. Florian

    USSHC is staying on I guess

  330. Florian

    we just need to write them an official "invoice" for 12 months I guess?

  331. Florian

    i.e. a sponsorship for 12 months, that gets renewed every 12 months, until the service isn't used anymore

  332. Florian

    but basically to have an official agreement for a certain time

  333. will.sheward

    yes, treasurer/secretary issue i think

  334. Florian

    to not have sponsors back out in the middle of a term

  335. Florian

    right

  336. will.sheward

    as long as we have their money, i think that's unlikely

  337. Florian

    well, it's different for in-kind :)

  338. will.sheward

    unless we do something appalling and nobody wants to be associated with us any more :-)

  339. Florian

    I guess someone needs to look into the legal stuff then?

  340. Florian

    i.e. sponsorship invoices and papers we send out for in-kind stuff

  341. will.sheward

    invoices = treasurer

  342. Florian

    stpeter, I guess you know most about this?

  343. will.sheward

    and peter's sfk

  344. will.sheward

    afk

  345. will.sheward

    i think at the moment

  346. Florian

    that's the beauty of XMPP ... it's real-time, yet still allows for asynchronous conversations :D

  347. will.sheward

    you sound like a salesman

  348. Florian

    :p

  349. Florian

    but about the sponsorships ... I guess we should at least have them start always at the 1st of the month

  350. Florian

    just to keep it maintainable

  351. Florian

    seeing as having 100s of sponsors with completely random due dates ...

  352. will.sheward

    or we could pro-rata until the end of a defined period

  353. Florian

    that's complicated :D

  354. Florian

    that's also possible

  355. Florian

    but might be a bit messier

  356. Florian

    and depending on companies budgets, not as good

  357. Florian

    as I was saying before, some companies prefer to start sponsoring in December, as they see that they have got some money left

  358. will.sheward

    true

  359. Florian

    so always starting at the 1st of a month is quite useful

  360. Florian

    and very maintainable

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  365. Florian_Homer

    will.sheward: do we actually have a sponsor detail page example somewhere?

  366. will.sheward

    no - we didn't have such pages on the old site

  367. will.sheward

    i'll put something togehter tomorrow for usshc - we cna use that as an example for the voxeo people

  368. stpeter

    correct

  369. Florian_Homer

    great

  370. Florian_Homer

    and I guess we should delete the other sponsors from the pages

  371. will.sheward

    do we consider google a sponsor still?

  372. stpeter

    I'm not sure who to consider a sponsor anymore

  373. will.sheward

    strictly speaking only our hosts and voxeo.

  374. stpeter

    yep

  375. Florian_Homer

    here's a question ... <biased>Flosoft.biz for ds0039?</biased>

  376. Florian_Homer

    don't remember what happened to that in the end?

  377. will.sheward

    ds0039?

  378. Florian_Homer

    the server that serves as proxy

  379. Florian_Homer

    and stun

  380. Florian_Homer

    and some other stuff afair

  381. stpeter

    will.sheward: that's one of the machines we use,currently used only for the file transfer proxy I think

  382. will.sheward

    we should discuss at the next meeting (I'll be there this time promise). then we can wipe existing sponsors at the end of the month and put the new ones up.

  383. Florian_Homer

    sounds good

  384. Florian_Homer

    does anyone have the HP / Dell sponsorship deals?

  385. will.sheward

    this wil give florian a couple weeks to find some more

  386. will.sheward

    :)

  387. Florian_Homer

    :D

  388. Florian_Homer

    time to kick in some doors :)

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  390. bear

    florian shoud start in on Mozilla Europe

  391. Florian_Homer

    bear: how do you mean?

  392. bear

    and push the open source angle

  393. Florian_Homer

    oh, for sponsorship?

  394. bear

    just saying you could contact mozilla euro.... yes

  395. Florian_Homer

    why not US?

  396. Florian_Homer

    I'm more often awake in the US timezone :)

  397. bear

    i'll be contacting hem

  398. bear

    but sure - hit up both

  399. Florian_Homer

    ah right :)

  400. Florian_Homer

    any contacts I should hit up in Europe?

  401. bear

    let me get them

  402. Florian_Homer

    and stpeter wanted to check with Cisco :)

  403. bear

    Barbara Hueppe bhueppe@mozilla.com EU Communications Manager

  404. bear

    she is in Berlin

  405. Florian

    cheers

  406. Florian

    I'll drop her a line (maybe once we get the sponsors@ E-mail?

  407. bear

    k

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  409. Florian_Homer

    I'm wondering who of the ITeam can set that up?

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  412. stpeter

    I'll send an email to the iteam list about it

  413. Florian

    great

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  416. stpeter

    done

  417. Neustradamus

    Tristan Nitot : http://www.nitot.com/ Mozilla Europe

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