The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 28 November 2001 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am PST -0800 and to begin as soon thereafter that a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum is recognized by the chairman. The meeting was be held by teleconference hosted by IBM. At 10:02am a quorum was recognized and roll was called. 2. Roll Call Directors Present at Roll (or shortly thereafter): Brian Behlendorf Ken Coar Roy T. Fielding Dirk-Willem van Gulik Jim Jagielski Ben Laurie Greg Stein Bill Stoddard Randy Terbush Directors (expected to be) Absent: None Guests: Ben Hyde 3. Minutes from the meeting of 17 Oct 2001 The minutes of the board meeting of 17 Oct 2001 (board_minutes_2001_10_17.txt), as amended by Roy via Email <20011126144055.A8474@waka.ebuilt.net>, were approved by unanimous consent. 4. Officer Reports A. Chairman [Roy] Roy reported that he is continuing his investigation into a "virtual office" setup for the ASF. Regarding the Oracle Small Business solution, it is actually NetLedger which provides the service. Further investigation is being performed. Roy also reported that he will follow-up with the Contributor Logo email of last meeting. B. President [Brian] Brian reported that the infrastructure is performing well, and that the move of the Jakarta project's email to their own server has resulted in better performance overall. C. Treasurer [Randy] Randy report on the foundation's financial standing. PDF's of the actual accounting reports are held in the CVS tree. Randy also reported that he is continuing investigation into a merchant account for the ASF, having been declined by Wells Fargo. D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim reported that after his email request for signed CLAs from all committers, he has been receiving a steady stream of them. Because of the volume, it is taking some time to coordinate and document the status. An additional email will be sent "shortly" with the current status of received CLAs. There was some discussion on using this opportunity to also create a comprehensive list of PGP keys for all committers. 5. Committee Reports A. Conference Planning [Ken] Ken reported that there have been communications with "Security" regarding the next ApacheCon and that things are progressing. Ken also reported that he is close to completing the list of out- standing payments due to Speakers, et.al. after the last ApacheCon due to Camelot's insolvency. This will be forwarded to Randy for payment. So far, the expected totals are within our allocated budegt. 6. Special Orders A. ASF License 2.0 The topic that was discussed was related to the following statement in the Agenda: "There seems to be general agreement in the licensing mailing list on the content within Exhibit A (which is the same as in the file foundation/Licenses/Apache/license-roy.txt) as a new license that would accomplish the previously stated goals. The board can choose to approve it for use now (leaving it to each PMC as to when/if to apply it for each project), mandate that it be used by all PMC after a certain date, send it to an outside lawyer for further review, ask the members to vote on it, or any combination of the above." Discussion of the proposed license centered around whether the additional complexity due to addressing patent and contribution issues was worth the departure from the simple BSD-like terms. The question also arose as to whether such a change would require a full vote of the members due to how important the open source license is to the mission and bylaws of the Foundation. Roy offered to create a more BSD-like alternative license for the purpose of comparision, and will send a message to all ASF committers to be sure that they are aware of the proposed license change and are able to make comments on the proposal before the board makes a final decision. This item was then tabled for consideration at a future meeting after more feedback has been received from interested parties. ====== B. Establishing a PMC for a federated identity project The topic that was discussed was related to the following statement in the Agenda: "Ben Hyde has requested that a PMC be established for dealing with the Liberty Alliance issues. Roy suggested that a PMC for the implementation of a federated identity system could be established and it could handle, or end, the relationship as it sees fit. This agenda item is simply to check current progress and determine if we are ready to create a PMC for this yet." After discussion, it was agreed that continuing the present course, with a light-weight mailing list, made the most sense, due to the response and feedback of the ASF members. 7. Unfinished Business A. Request from IBM to make a BSF project within Jakarta. [Bill] 8. New Business There was no New Business. 9. Announcements There were no Announcements. 10. Adjournment The meeting was scheduled to adjourn by 11:30am PST -0800, and was actually adjourned at 11:10am. __________________________________________________________ End of minutes for the 28 Nov 2001 board meeting.