XSF Discussion - 2011-11-30

3600 second warnings of impending meetingness sent...

:)

Oooh, ooh.

If I don't turn up, I can be rhombus :D

Or a rhombus, I guess.

moo

hi Florian

hey @ all :)

Kev, Depends on your reading of equilateral.

Equilateral polygons are those whose sides are all of equal length, are they not?

Oh, I suppose.

I should re-nick for proper naming.

An equilateral quadrilateral is a rhombus, and a regular rhombus is a square.

hi cchris434

hello

Kev, So, "Regular equilateral quadrilateral", then?

Or just 'regular quadrilateral', as I believe regularity subsumes equilatirality.

Hoorah for making up words.

That's why you get the PhD.

That and I wrote a thesis about samosas.

6 minutes to go, and we're all here.

That's progress.

bear, You *are* here, right?

cchris434 - if you can, add your blurb to this wiki page: http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/the-xsf-board-of-directors/

yes, I had sent one in--I just add directly to the page

I have the power of Greyskull!

cchris434: if you don't have an account at xmpp.org I can create one for you

yes, thanks, I might need one

ok

will do

so, only agenda item is welcoming the new board and deciding meeting times, electing of chair?

:)

I think technically we have to appoint all the officers, not just the Chair.

Indeed.

(According to §6.1)

Dave Cridland: let's chat about that

stpeter, I'm rather hoping you're willing to continue, along with everyone else.

Dave Cridland: I don't know if the very first meeting is the best time to do that -- last year I suggested to the Board that they do that in, say, January, once they have a bit of knowledge about the organization, bylaws, etc.

I can go along with that.

So we just elect a Chair?

and decide a meeting schedule - yep

Right. What first, then? Should we pick a chair so we have someone who decides what to do next? :-)

while I enjoyed the time as chair, I feel my work schedule is becoming even more crazy, so don't know if I can focus on Chair duties as I should - so I won't be standing for Chair again unless no one else wants it ;)

I'm happy to do it.

and I'm happy to +1 your request

anyone else feel strongly about being chair?

Or, for that matter, feel strongly about me not being chair?

Ashley / cchris434 / Florian ?

well, I was trying to not be that blunt for a first meeting

no

sounds good to me

I'm ehre :)

since i'm new, i might go rogue

Ashley, I went rogue years ago. The worst thing is that nobody noticed.

lulz

Dave Cridland: I noticed but decided not to mention it

ok, then - I nominate Dave for Chair position (if that is even required?) - second?

Does anyone not on the board have any strong (negative) opinion about me being chair? It's the best time to mention it if you do, and I'd rather this was taken into account now.

+1

+1

+1

+1

ok, assuming +1 from Dave - we have a 2012 board chair

RIght, well, I'll take that as no strong objections from those present, and accept the role, thanks.

congrats

So, I guess welcome to the 2011-2012 XSF Board.

:)

stpeter, Majority of the members.

BTW, Board members might want to take a look at http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/xsf/xsf-bylaws/ in their copious spare time

stpeter, Oh, or maybe a majority vote of a quorate meeting, I should actually check.

I think Dave Cridland will make a fine Board chair, given that he uses words like 'quorate'

haha

so, is this a fine time for meetings?

WFM

OK. So I can be removed as Chair at any time by the Board, and removed from the Board by a majority of the members.

SO, this is not a fine time for meetings, because it clashes with the XMPP Council.

hmm, an hour later?

oh, that's right, the Council moved

Or 30mins, I heard the Council Chair doesn't like long meetings :)

hour later is troublesome for me because of the majority of the mozilla folks are west coast and *love* morning meetings

ah, right

I can do earlier

I'm going to be a bit stuck if it's 1730UTC every week. I can also do earlier - 1630UTC?

30 min earlier works - I like the idea of a tight deadline to focus meetings

earlier is probably better for me, but understand that we can't do it too early on the East Coast because of time differences

being one of the east coasters, earlier is preferred

agreed

ok

should be ok with me to do earlier

Ashley, WHat timezone are you? MST or PST?

MST

are we looking at 1600 UTC now or 1630?

both WFM

bear, 1630UTC, so 9:30 am MST, 8:30 am PST, 11:30 am EST.

+1

(Assuming I have my timezone maths right)

WFM

sounds good

OK, I'll call that a decision.

sounds good to me as well

+1

BTW, folks can subscribe to the calendars at http://xmpp.org/calendar/ -- I just use xsf-all.ics but YMMV

OK. So, I think that consludes everything we set out to discuss.

when is the next meeting?

next week?

TBH i've hidden the xsf-board calendar - it always was just a dup of the xsf-all

next week works for me

next week works for me - I feel we need to get one more in before the holidays consume us

Let's work on the assumption that we have a meeting every week, but we'll cancel it if there's nothing on the agenda.

+1

yep, i should be good for next week too

WFM

Is there any other business to discuss now?

not from ehre

not from here

fwiw, i've got a call next week with our marketing person to discuss sponsorship of the dev challenge/hackathon

cool :)

Okay, that's interesting - Mike, did you raise this with the Mozilla people yet?

we also need money for the dinner :)

i've sent out the first emails but need to follow up with some IRC poking

the fosdem person is travelling so I am stalking them

Florian, Might be worth opening the sponsorship page on that.

hmm, yeah

bear: yes I need to follow up on those emails, I'm slammed this week with IESG madness

asheley, cchris434 - are these jid's your normal ones - I want to send sub requests

yes

you can use either asroach at cisco.com or aroach at gmail.com

or both :)

heh

sent

OK. So I think I move to adjourn.

\o/

if someone updates the ical file, say so and we'll push it to the web

oh heck I'll do that now

:)

stpeter, Thanks.

thx :)

so December 7 at 16:30 UTC

yep

done

dave - do you want to send out the meeting minutes email or shall I?

ah, my apologies

I can.

I won't be able to make that

*Now* you tell us?

as I've got a dinner meeting with Sarkozy

normally 16:30 is great

just not next week :D

forgot about that

I'm in Paris from Tuesday -> Saturday

leWeb?

yeh

Florian: fancy!

Florian: I suppose dinner with Sarkozy is an acceptable excuse

I'll try and pop by via mobile