XSF Discussion - 2010-11-10


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  29. Nÿco

    meeting in 12 minutes?

  30. Nÿco

    lag-test

  31. bear

    is there a board muc like there is for council?

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  34. Will

    hi jack

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  36. Florian

    hi

  37. Florian

    so ... time for the board meeting?

  38. Will

    30 seconds :-)

  39. Will

    Are we all here?

  40. Florian

    Peter is missing

  41. jack

    seems so

  42. jack

    Welcome everyone to the first meeting of the 2010/2011 board :)

  43. Will

    !

  44. Will

    welcome especially Mike

  45. jack

    Indeed!

  46. Florian

    indeed

  47. jack

    Fresh blood is always good.

  48. bear

    who?

  49. bear

    oh me!

  50. Will

    some bloke, i dunno

  51. jack

    So as with every newly seated board, we have to nominate some officers

  52. Florian

    yup

  53. jack

    I believe we need ED, Secretary, and Treasurer

  54. Florian

    I'd propose Peter to take the position of ED if he's up for it

  55. jack

    oh, and board chair

  56. jack

    seconded

  57. Will

    thirded

  58. jack

    I'll volunteer for treasurer again

  59. Will

    especially as he's not here ;-)

  60. Florian

    seconded

  61. bear

    devious

  62. Will

    stpeter now gets all the bad jobs

  63. Florian

    haha

  64. jack

    Alexander is our current secretary, and he did a good job as I recall last year. Does anyone know if he's up for doing it again?

  65. Will

    he's not said as far as i know.

  66. Florian

    hmm

  67. Florian

    I'd say ... let's ask him

  68. jack

    I'd suggest we contact him and ask

  69. Will

    +1

  70. Florian

    :)

  71. Will

    note we're not contacting peter, just assuming

  72. Florian

    haha

  73. jack

    I'll email them both right now

  74. Will

    cool

  75. jack

    Bear, you seemed to be quite organized :) Want to ttake a crack at Chair?

  76. Florian

    :)

  77. bear

    what does that entail?

  78. Will

    quick, vote him in while he's still typing on typewithme and doesn't notice ;-)

  79. bear

    :P

  80. Florian

    +1

  81. jack

    mostly that you make some agendas

  82. Will

    you get to have a longer title than the rest of us and bang a gavel

  83. jack

    although I guess nyco has been doing that :)

  84. bear

    if it is just herding cats and making thingssmooth for others - sure

  85. Will

    I second bear for big chairman role

  86. jack

    There might be a bylaw or two were you break tie votes for other things, but AFAIK none of that has ever been used.

  87. bear

    k

  88. Will

    you have no real power, we just get to blame you if things go wrong

  89. bear

    well damn, since you put it that way, where do I sign up!

  90. Will

    I'm not hearing anything from nyco - is he here?

  91. Florian

    Nÿco?

  92. bear

    he did a "lag test" about 15 minutes before the meeting started

  93. Will

    latency in france must be a b**ch

  94. Florian

    lol

  95. Neustradamus

    :D

  96. Nÿco

    yep

  97. Will

    aha!

  98. Florian

    he's alive!

  99. Nÿco

    my client is

  100. Nÿco

    lag-test

  101. Nÿco

    awful

  102. Nÿco

    but still I can follow

  103. Florian

    using OneTeam again? :p

  104. Nÿco

    no, Psi+

  105. Florian

    sorry ... just had to crack that joke :p

  106. bear chuckles

  107. Nÿco

    the lag does not come from the client

  108. jack

    Alex responded that he is up for secretary again.

  109. Will

    cool

  110. jack

    +1 from me

  111. Will

    dito

  112. jack

    other votes?

  113. Nÿco

    as for the chair, I'm comfortably sit, thx ;-)

  114. Will

    lol

  115. Florian

    +1

  116. Florian

    ok .. so the board is sorted?

  117. Will

    i think so

  118. Nÿco

    sort... of

  119. Nÿco

    next item?

  120. Florian

    yup

  121. Nÿco

    bumonthly meetings?

  122. Will

    regular meetings +1

  123. Nÿco

    s/bu/bi/

  124. Nÿco

    Wed?

  125. jack

    I am +1 for the regular meeting slot.

  126. Florian

    +1

  127. Nÿco

    the biggest question will be time?

  128. Florian

    good time at the moment

  129. Will

    I'm ok for this time

  130. Nÿco

    we have a timezone overlap, let's choose in this timeframe

  131. Nÿco

    I'm ok too

  132. Nÿco

    "17:00 aka 5:00pm GMT/UTC"

  133. bear

    this time or earlier is good for me

  134. Florian

    I can't do 16:00

  135. Florian

    can't do earlier than 17:00

  136. Nÿco

    no one against this time?

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  138. jack

    I think everyone confirmed.

  139. Florian

    ok ... great :)

  140. bear

    cool, so bi-weekly at 1700 GMT starting today

  141. jack

    Next topic, new website

  142. Will

    items on website....

  143. Nÿco

    every two weeks, bi-weekly being twice a week

  144. Nÿco

    Roundups:

  145. Nÿco

    my mistake I don't find time to publish them

  146. Florian

    shouldn't that be something for the commteam?

  147. Will

    They were good, I'm happy to take lead in re-starting, with nyco's help

  148. Nÿco

    ok

  149. Nÿco

    drafts are in the wiki

  150. Will

    i'll take a look tomorrow

  151. Nÿco

    how would like to work? go on with drafting on the wiki?

  152. Will

    I think we should draft in the wordpress installation

  153. Florian

    +1 for wordpress

  154. Nÿco

    -1 for WP

  155. Will

    I suppose it is less public

  156. Nÿco

    this wiki lets other people watch and contribute, like for example Neustradamus, who is a great help

  157. Will

    so i understand where nyco is coming from

  158. Nÿco

    ?

  159. Florian

    what about Etherpad?

  160. Nÿco

    -1 for Etherpad: doesn't fit

  161. jack

    I think the wiki is fine

  162. Will

    i withdraw my +1 for WP and convert it to keeping with wiki

  163. Nÿco

    it is not optimal, I confess, but it works mostly

  164. jack

    Or rather, I vote for whatever Nyco would prefer, since he is the one drafting most of them :)

  165. Nÿco

    can we have a better tool someday?

  166. Will

    lol

  167. Florian

    lol

  168. jack

    Nyco, what would you like in a better tool?

  169. Will

    how about google wave <snigger>

  170. Nÿco

    I would define the roundups as being more successful, if we have more contribs, so any tool for contribs would do

  171. Florian

    instead of wave, I'd say etherpad

  172. Will

    we'll stick with wiki for the moment i think

  173. Florian

    yeah

  174. Nÿco

    etherpad ahs no links, no traceability, etc.

  175. Nÿco

    etherpad is good for one-shots

  176. Nÿco

    ok

  177. Nÿco

    "new website" agenda item: anything to add?

  178. Will

    the tables have stopped working (not editable) again, Kev is looking to see if permissions have changed. If he can't find a reason, we'll try another way of generating them

  179. bear

    i'm working on getting access to git and going to switch the services, libs and clients table to generated tool like what is used for xeps

  180. Will

    plus the ics plugin that was causing the performance issues has a new version out which i'll try tomorrow probably....

  181. Will

    which should enable us to at last fill in this page: http://xmpp.org/participate/future-events/

  182. Will

    bear: that'd be good

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  184. bear

    yea, going to use the same input format if possible

  185. Neustradamus

    I would like an update of the very old mediawiki version.

  186. Nÿco

    maintaining the tables data needs more contributions as well...

  187. Nÿco

    can we open the edition to some subsections of the website to special users?

  188. bear

    the person who maintains a spanish version of the tables has contacted me to help

  189. Will

    Nÿco: agree but we're short of volunteers at the moment.

  190. Nÿco

    cool!

  191. Kev

    Nÿco: I don't know if that's possible in wordpress, is it?

  192. Nÿco

    I meant, can we do it technically?

  193. Nÿco

    ah

  194. Kev

    I thought you had to be a sitewide editor, but I'm no wordpress guru.

  195. Nÿco

    ok, no fine grained persmissions?

  196. bear

    if the tables can be generated then we can use git pull-requests :)

  197. Nÿco

    yes, from where?

  198. Will

    no fine grained permissions as standard but we can set people up as contributors which means their changes would be held until released by someone with higher permissions?

  199. Will

    i bet there's a plugin for that though (fine grained)

  200. bear

    let's let the current wp changes get made and then we could revisit the workflow

  201. Will

    agreed

  202. Will

    walk first, run second

  203. Nÿco

    ok

  204. Nÿco

    anything else on the website?

  205. Will

    nothing here

  206. Nÿco

    I tend to agree on the Mediawiki version, but it's a low priority

  207. Nÿco

    next item? Sponsors?

  208. Will

    Sponsors?

  209. jack

    I will send an invoice to Collecta this week. They agreed to sponsor.

  210. jack

    Has anyone asked anyone else? Perhaps we should ask Jonas and see if google is interested :)

  211. bear

    do we have a list of past sponsors? and have they been contacted?

  212. Will

    I've not yet started asking, but a generic message to members to see if they know of anyone (employyers?) would be a good idea

  213. Nÿco

    +1

  214. Will

    I think peter is our best source for list of past sponers...

  215. Will

    i seem to recall we've talked about this before?

  216. bear

    is someone working on the past list then?

  217. Will

    i think "working might be stretching it

  218. bear

    :)

  219. bear

    ok, i'll contact peter about the past list and do an email to member list about suggestions

  220. Will

    I'll draft an email to Members

  221. bear

    ok

  222. Nÿco

    web archive machine may help

  223. Nÿco

    Wayback machine, sorry

  224. Nÿco

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://jabber.org

  225. Nÿco

    Special Thanks to Our Sponsors: IBM | Hitachi

  226. Nÿco

    wow

  227. Nÿco

    http://web.archive.org/web/20020124045738/http://www.jabber.org/

  228. Nÿco

    in 2002

  229. Will

    you know that opening statement on that page is better than anything we currently have

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  231. Nÿco

    next item?

  232. Nÿco

    Roadmap?

  233. jack

    We typically strive to keep the board meetings short. Shall we adjourn today and continue with the remaining items in 2 weeks?

  234. Nÿco

    - Roadmap update - GSoC - Elections - Mini Summits

  235. Nÿco

    agree

  236. bear

    +1

  237. Will

    +1 and we need to talk FOSDEM next meeting as well

  238. bear

    I would put that at the top of the list then

  239. Nÿco

    ok

  240. Nÿco

    Next meeting: 2010-11-24 17:00 aka 5:00pm GMT/UTC

  241. jack

    did someone contact htem?

  242. jack

    the call for devrooms closed October 16th :(

  243. Will

    jack: we have a devroom

  244. Nÿco

    Please, update your agendas

  245. Kev

    Ralph has arranged a room for the Saturday, I believe.

  246. jack

    will: ok good :)

  247. jack

    ok, see everyone in 2 weeks :)

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  250. Will

    bye bye

  251. Nÿco

    bye

  252. Nÿco

    thx to all

  253. Will

    bear: do i have permission to leave now? ;-)

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  255. bear

    ok, meeting over

  256. Will

    thanks

  257. bear

    :)

  258. bear

    who normally sends out meeting summary?

  259. Nÿco

    the one who asks...

  260. bear

    doh!

  261. Nÿco

    :-p

  262. Nÿco

    welcome to the board bear! ;-)

  263. bear

    ok, i'll work up a brief summary and post it to the members list

  264. Will

    rofl

  265. bear

    thanks!

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  267. Nÿco

    maybe no need for a summary, http://typewith.me/y1i9CHJHLH may be enough

  268. Nÿco

    with the log

  269. bear

    that should go to the wiki IMO with a link to the log

  270. bear

    but yes, my summary was going to be a shortened version of the typewith.me doc

  271. Nÿco

    why not... you want to archive everything? if we send to lists, it is archived, no?

  272. bear

    yes

  273. Nÿco

    mmm... yes to what?

  274. bear

    in the absence of past experience i was just going with what i've done - but sure, I will do that

  275. bear

    yes to your question

  276. Nÿco

    which one?

  277. bear

    do you have a link to the log

  278. Nÿco

    ah let me check

  279. bear

    yes I feel everything shoud b archived - which would be handled by a log link

  280. bear

    and the mailing list would serve as notice

  281. Kev

    For what it's worth, I think sending semi-formal minutes is worthwhile. I think a copy of the typewith.me document very nearly covers that, if not completely.

  282. bear

    ok

  283. Nÿco

    like this

  284. Nÿco

    http://xmpp.org:5290/muc_log/muc.xmpp.org/xsf/100907/

  285. Nÿco

    http://xmpp.org:5290/muc_log/muc.xmpp.org/xsf/101110/

  286. bear

    cool

  287. Kev

    Thanks bear.

  288. bear

    glad to help

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  298. Nÿco

    ok, the Mediawiki definitely needs an upgrade

  299. Nÿco

    Neustradamus? do you wish to upgrade it?

  300. Kev

    I will do this after the interop event.

  301. Kev

    It's a big upgrade and I don't want to do it while we need the wiki for arranging stuffs.

  302. Nÿco

    http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Special:Version Product MediaWiki Version 1.13.2 http://www.mediawiki.org/

  303. Nÿco

    Current version

  304. Nÿco

    1.16.0 – 2010-07-28

  305. Nÿco

    ah

  306. Nÿco

    why not

  307. Nÿco

    do you need help?

  308. Kev

    No, I can do it - but my experience with upgrading mediawiki is that it tends to be painful.

  309. Kev

    I guess we've enough time to fix it if it does go wrong and have it back for the interop.

  310. Kev

    Ok, I'll have a look at it.

  311. Kev

    But not tonight.

  312. Kev adds to todo.

  313. Neustradamus

    Kev: ok

  314. Nÿco

    yes, painful is quite close to what I experienced also

  315. Neustradamus

    after the update, you must add (a new time) the XMPP URIs -> http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_URIs#MediaWiki

  316. Kev

    Let's get to the upgrade first.

  317. Nÿco

    yes, it's quite lower priority

  318. Neustradamus

    yes yes

  319. Nÿco

    though it would be nice to have XMPP URIs at the XSF ;-)

  320. Neustradamus

    sure

  321. Kev

    Nÿco: I wonder if this is something it's worth the XSF pursuing.

  322. Kev

    A relatively low proportion of clients will deal with system-click xmpp: URIs.

  323. Nÿco

    nevermind, if we don't have it, then who?

  324. Kev

    Sorry, I realise you can read what I said either way.

  325. Kev

    I mean:

  326. Kev

    Maybe it's worth the XSF pursing this and persuading clients to implement xmpp: handlers.

  327. Neustradamus

    Kev: yes

  328. Nÿco

    ah yes, indeed I read the other way round ;-) (which was surprising from you ;-) )

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