XSF Discussion - 2011-04-20

stpeter, I mailed you the XML file for the microblogging XEP (I updated everything needed in the XEP headers), hope it is okay ;)

hi Vanaryon, yes I saw that

okay

We are discussing - in our project - about a strong need for microblogging: a @user feature (mainly for notifications, and notices tracking), we might be submitting some other XEP-0277 updates in the future ;)

ok good

brb

Board meeting?

I thought so :)

So says my calendar.

mine too

It's not in the calendar but I think we said we'd have one today

I see it in the calendar.

as do I

anyway

So, I can't read a calendar, no surprise :-)

Bear was there a few minutes ago when I pinged him about GSoC things.

heh

maybe he stepped away

sorry - traffic - back-hoe operator decided to drive his rig into the hole he was filling instead of putting dirt into it

heh

the only item I know of is gsoc followup and one other thing (/me digs thru notes)

we also have http://tracker.xmpp.org/browse/TRADEMARKS-1 and http://tracker.xmpp.org/browse/TRADEMARKS-2

that's it

I should mention that my trying to do the sponsors stuff on the site caused Athena to explode.

I'll try again tomorrow

so the trademark and gsoc are what I can see as needing discussion

we'll plan for that :P

I have only 2 trademark applications right now

I was expecting a third but it hasn't come in yet

starts editing http://typewith.me/SVrlCVhbyQ

I invited Jack

will.sheward: have you think at me ? :D

I don't see Nÿco online

Florian appears to be here but no activity from him in the room :)

hiya :)

:)

Insert obvious student joke here

heehee

i'm typing ahead in the document while waiting :)

heh, yes

heeh

*hehe

shall we start?

sure

I pinged Jack

ok, gsoc update

- we have 7 slots but only good activity on 4 of them - the other 3 we have a deadline of tonight for mentor/student response or we will toss them back to the pool - duplication process starts today and ends in IRC discussion Friday

kev may have more info but that's it in a nutshell

That seems clear enough

WFM.

so far we have no duplicates - so friday will be easy(ish)

right

k, trademarks

(There are, I think, more than 4 good proposals, but several are for Swift, and we only have mentoring capacity for two)

ah, now I remember the third trademark licensing application -- I'll add that one soon

Only 2 in total or 2 suitable as swift mentors?

will.sheward: Remko and I can each mentor one student. So even if the XSF has several good Swift proposals (and it has), we have to only accept two.

Other projects seem to have fewer good proposals than mentoring capacity.

Ok

That's my excuse, yes

consider myself the bad habit enabler ;)

I have AOB about that, btw.

do you want to bring that up now?

k, anything else about gsoc?

Can do - just that athena is, to quote Edwin, 'a ticking timebomb'. Iteam is coming up with a rough plan to start mirroring the website so Bad Things can't happen again, probably to the machine Florian is currently donating over in Flosoft. We are also likely to ask Board to find some money, or some sponsor to replace the hardware (athena) in the bunker.

hahaha

right

Just as a heads-up.

This way we'd have one machine in the usual place, and one machine over in Europe for hosting the website.

Ticking is ok, it's when it stops we have a problem

will.sheward: Like Friday, you mean?

having things in different places seems sensible

right

stpeter: Picasso agrees :)

do we know what the load is for current athena so we can get a suitable device at flosoft?

it's not clear to me if we need a dedicated machine for websites or whether that could be hosted virtually

Or would agree, rather.

bear: The point being we don't want to replace athena with a machine at Flosoft. We want new hardware.

Then we'd mirror to the box we already have at Flosoft :)

I was just talking about what parameters would be required for cpu and disk

Athena is ooooold, I imagine any modern system would cope with the base website.

i.e. is it a monster box that has tons of page hits or can we do with a virtual machine?

The addons like the Atlassian stuff is another matter.

looking at the machine .. any Core CPU ... with redundant HDDs

k, then we could have a master with replicated mysql on the public facing frontend

but it sounds like iteam has that in hand

Not really - we're just starting discussing stuff. It was a heads-up largely so no-one gets surprised if we ask for a new server in a while.

k

(Or in case we ask in a while and someone says "Oh, I was chatting to HP the other day, if only I knew!")

If we find a machine somewhere, we will let you know

can we get iteam to give a report by next board meeting (or a future one)

ok I posted the trademark applications to the Board list

I'll see what I can do about sourcing a machine

I do have some contacts at HP

cool

and someone at Dell just asked for a password reset at jabber.org :)

Haha.

There will no be short break from me while I fail to find a seat on my train

that's one heck of a processing fee ;)

bear: :)

lol

BTW I did IM with Jack and he is on a phone call that he can't pull away from

I'll email iteam asking if they could summarize what the issue is and what the plan will be

bear: good

bear: Right, we'll get that done eventually :)

understood :)

http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/jabber-trademark/pending-applications/ updated too

thanks

ok, at 30 minutes past - anything else need chewing on?

not from my end

Not here

next meeting>

?

2 weeks from now?

Trademark stuff on the list?

if we follow the original original schedule - it's next week - but i'm good for 2 weeks

gsoc, trademark and athena followup?

next week I can join from the airport, two weeks from now I'll be on a plane

ah

That's a heck of a boarding queue

s/can/might be able to/ :)

let's do a quick one next week

Ok

will.sheward: :P

ok :)

kev?

Yes?

any objections to next week?

None her

Here

I have no objections. I'm not on Board, though :)

doh!

Lol

thanks all for good meeting!

See you all next week

great .. cyall later :)

thanks

calendars updated for Board and Council

brb

stpeter: Thanks.

no, thank you :)

ok

going AFK for a bit to finish reviewing the vCard4 specs

kev - can we contact waqas to hash this out before our deadline?

Yep.

I am doing so at the moment, in fact.

I don't see him in jdev

oh - perfect - then let me get out of your way

ta

http://xmpp.org/xmpp-protocols/internet-drafts/ and http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Tech_pages/Core are not updated.

http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Technology_overview too