Fwd: X.Org Foundation - Conference Call Minutes - 6th April 2004

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>All,
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>The minutes of the Foundation Call today:
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>Attendees:
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>Stuart Anderson
>Egbert Eich
>Jim Gettys
>Georg Greve
>Howard Greenwell
>Stuart Kreitman
>Kevin Martin
>Jim McQuillan
>Bankim Shah
>Leon Shiman
>Mark Snitily
>Jeremy White
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>Minutes:
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>1. Administrative Items
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>Howard noted to the group that Alan Hourihane has resigned from the Board 
>of Directors, and requested his name be removed from the Press Release. 
>There are now only 9 active Interim Board Members.
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>2. Vote to Approve Member Agreement
>        Please see the version distributed on Friday 2nd April.
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>The following points were raised about implementing the member agreement:
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>a. There should be a Link for Questions that can be submitted in relation 
>to the
>b. There should also be a link to the security document beside the member 
>agreement.
>c. Howard agreed to take on the action to create an FAQ to provide a 
>commentary about the points in the member agreement - but not this week.
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>No objections to proceeding to posting the member agreement on the web, 
>and opening for membership applications.
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>Jim made points about formality.
>Agreed that everything should be handled by general consensus rather than 
>formal votes.
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>3. Press Release
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>Following comments on press release were corrected on-line:
>-  Remove the word "build" from first sentence.
>-  Missing quote from the beginning of Russ Nelson's quote.
>-  Egbert would like all his name all on one line.
>-  First quote from the board needed to be reworded.
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>4. Vote to Approve Issuing Press Release
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>All agreed that the press release can be issued. Needs to wait until 
>Egbert/Jim/Keith are happy with the tarballs.
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>Process for release:
>1. get the tarballs in place.
>2. Keith send note to Leon to do send out of press release.
>3. Wiki page needs to be opened up by Keith for access.
>4. Howard will send final press release to Leon. (already done).
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>5. Vote to Approve Foundation 1st Release
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>Already completed last week. Jim commented that board should approve that 
>release can be made, but not necessarily need to review final release 
>being ready.
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>6. Election Process and Voting Mechanism (Howard)
>        Please see the document circulated for March 16th call.
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>Howard commented that we were now about 2 weeks behind on the original 
>schedule. Will update the document for next Tuesday's call, and also draft 
>the text for the invitation to be a candidate for the Board. Next week's 
>call is all about the election process.
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>7. AOB
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>Leon thanked everyone for the energy and effort to get the member 
>agreement and press release out.
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>Jim noted the 20th Anniversary of the X Consortium is on 19th June and 
>that the group would like make the next release on that day.
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>Stuart suggested having a call later in the week. Jim will host and 
>announce a call for Thursday to see if any issues about the Press Release 
>have been raised.
>Howard on vacation - Stuart not available.
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>Next call on Tuesday 13th at the same time.
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>Howard.