The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 17 October 2001 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am PDT -0700. The meeting was held by teleconference hosted by IBM. At 10:10am, a quorum was recognized by the chair and roll was called. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Brian Behlendorf Ken Coar Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Ben Laurie (arrived 10:23am) Bill Stoddard Directors (expected to be) Absent: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Greg Stein Randy Terbush Guests: Drew Wright, Lawyer with IBM, attended at 10:30am 3. Minutes from the meeting of 15 Aug 2001 By unanimous consent, board_minutes_2001_08_15.txt in cvs.apache.org:/home/cvs board were approved. 4. Officer Reports A. President [Brian] Brian reported that the infrastructure transitions have been going smoothly, although email is a bit slower than other services. Brian also reported on the move of the servers from Exodus to AboveNet in San Francisco. Additional connectivity is being implemented via InterNap, although it is not yet completed. Some routing problems have been encountered while the InterNap link is being added. Brian also reported on the ASF Membership in Project Liberty, but that there was no additional status over and above the membership announcement. Brian also reported that there was no further status on the "no pay" W3C membership item. B. Treasurer [Randy] No report due to Randy's absence. C. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim reported that, due to the amount of "strange" mail that the ASF receives, especially from non-US locations, he is taking normal precautions with mail. Jim reported that when a signed Contributor License Agreement is received, it is mentioned on the members mailing list, unless Jim was given a "head's up" to expect it from a PMC. It was also noted that up to now, the ASF has not been active in requiring signed CLAs from all committers. Jim will be sending email to all those with commit access reminding them that it is required. 5. Committee Reports A. Conference Planning [Ken] Ken reported that Security Travel has been selected as the conference organizers for ApacheCon. The next show will most likely be held in Las Vegas in the summer of 2002, with the European show 6-9 months past that. The ConCom is looking into Security's "recommendation" of possibly making Las Vegas the normal location of the US ApacheCons. Ken also mentioned that he has been approaching the speakers who have not been paid for the previous ApacheCon, due to Camelot Communication's bankruptcy, and is organizing their reimbursement. 6. Special Orders A) Request from IBM to make a BSF project within Jakarta. [Bill] Bill had posted to the members mailing list a revised license that covered both contributors to and end users of ASF software. The proposed license, and the comments to it, were discussed. Of particular interest was in the phrasing to ensure that the agreement would also apply to those that did the actual work and not just the person or entity that donated the work. Bill will work with Drew to address the concerns and suggestions offered on the member's list and in this meeting. 7. Unfinished Business A) ASF virtual office Roy wants to be able to distribute access to the ASF corporate records and business accounts, including basic things like a shipping account and a teleconferencing account. We need to have a low-barrier access to setting up organizational meetings, whether that be in the form of on-line access to the office or designating a specific office person who will be responsible for setting these things up for us [responsible as in they can place orders and coordinate minor things without having to jump through hoops]. It was agreed that Roy will investigate this via a contact in Oracle, regarding their Oracle Small Business offering: B) Contributor logos It was discussed that some sort of "Apache contributor" or "Apache sponsor" logo would be an easy way to improve recognition for the companies that pay salaries or donate money to Apache projects. Having tiers of such sponsorship was also discussed, as was the control issue, and having corresponding information on www.apache.org for those logos. Roy will post an announcement about this mini-project on the members mailing list. C) ASF License The board discussed various issues regarding copyright and patents and the work of the licensing committee. Several groups want the ASF to address contribution and use of patented software in contributors agreement and/or copyright license, while others wish the ASF would solve the FSF's claim of our license's incompatibility with the GPL. We have a set of goals in foundation/Licenses, but no sense of direction or ownership. Ben Laurie volunteered to head this effort. 8. New Business None announced or discussed. 9. Announcements Brian reported that he has assumed the role of V.P. of Engineering at CollabNet. 10. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 10:55am PDT -0700.