XSF Discussion - 2011-09-07

evening all

hi Florian

gonna attempt to remain in the room for the meeting :)

ok :)

GPRS goodness

are you still in Tunisia?

or wherever you are now?

yeah, still Tunisia

Hi

15. August -> 15. September .. my month off :)

hey Will

I took off last Friday, does that count? ;-)

a break's a break :D

do we have an agenda?

I see bear online, is he paying attention here?

Jack is also online

I don't see Nÿco

me n'either

and Will left the room?

so it seems :)

Back, crap connection tonight

bear: the only agenda item I recall was the schedule for board and council elections

http://typewith.me/1kLLdjuejq

yes

cools

and possible discuss quarterly meeting results

sure

but I couldn't remember if the board needed to do anything official or not

if not then that agenda item is very fast: "see Alex's email"

see email from Alex, yes

k, done! next item ...

the Secretary takes care of that

:)

right

last year the Board and Council elections were held in mid-October

if we announce it now, that gives a good 30(ish) days of notice

Any reason not to do the same this year?

Will: right, we usually aim for just about 12 months later

no reason to not do the same IMO

last year it was 2010-10-25

should we do the same?

Monday the 25th last year

monday would be the 24th this year

this year it would be a Tuesday

Alex made the Quarterly meeting a Tuesday

or that

so Tuesday the 25th (2011) seems fine

k

sounds good

we can confirm with Alex on the members@ list

+1

now the big question is how do we recruit people to volunteer for these thankless roles :)

especially for the Board, we usually need to poke people about serving

bribery?

except for the chance of Kev hunting me down, I would love to have the chance to serve again

I need to atone for a very absent role of GSoC admin

Florian is running for his life :)

sorry about that ... back now

hahaha

I'd love to run again too

I have someone in mind to poke at Cisco who might be able to serve on the Board, and one other person I chatted with recently who works for a small company that is doing a lot of XMPP work and might become a sponsor

cool

cool :)

has anyone asked the people from &yet?

I haven't, but I could for sure

ah, that might be a neat idea

yea, Andy would be a great person

indeed

that fritzy dude, i'm not sure about tho ... ;)

lol

yeah!

new blood would be a very good idea I think

as always

bear: s/Andy/Adam?

ah - adam

I woke up like 5 minutes before the meeting - morning caffeine has not been found yet

Alex said he will update http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/xsf-member-list/ soon, at which point we can ping people about serving on the Council, too

k

sounds good

the Council is a bit less busy than it used to be, so it shouldn't be a tremendous burden

that always seems to be a minor battle for control in the past (or was I just reading in more drama than is real?)

but yes, I don't expect any problems getting folks to run for the council

ah and I just thought of someone else to poke about serving on the Board

:)

great

*great

ok, so we go forth and recruit

at the 15 min mark - anything else needed to be discussed about this?

nope, not atm

nope & my trains about to arrive so I'll be disappearing in a minute

ok

thanks, guys

thanks

bye

cool, thanks all

shall I email Alex via the member list about the meeting?

nice!

Florian: :)

bear: yes, let's

k

I'll do that and the minutes mail now

super

heh

minutes look good :)

cool

stpeter - is it Alex that prepares the wiki page for the board/council elections?

anyone can do it -- it's a wiki :)

k

happy to do that now, but Alex said he would when we talked about it yesterday in the XSF meeting

sorry - that was the real question I was trying to ask

I'll mention in the email that

ok

naa - i'll keep it short and simple

doh! /me finally reads the member email from Alex where he says exactly that

I think it would be safer for all if I go get caffeine now

:)

please do :)

but then I don't work until 4 am every night like you seem to

true, but I only went to bed 5 hrs ago ... yea

ouch

the pain of dealing with folks in CA *and* Europe on a daily basis

I usually work until only 10 PM, although last night it was 11

yep

no fun

yea, like I need to explain any of that TZ fun to you :)

FYI - next meeting will be the 14th if we keep to this schedule

I may miss it as I am working from San Jose that whole week

ok

I'll at least place it on the calendar